Gotovina et al Judgement Volume I - ICTY

38930Collective Forces Staff moved into the Gračac municipal court building, where itbecame operational at 4 p.m. 2903684. Herman Steenbergen, an UNMO in Team Gračac from 5 May until 24 October1995, 2904 testified that at 3:30 p.m. on 5 August 1995, while he was with his team at theshelter in the Jordanian Battalion III compound in Štikada in Gračac municipality, theysaw about 500 members of the Special Police Forces moving on foot towardsGračac. 2905 Team Gračac asked if the Special Police commander wanted to speak tothem, but he said that he was heading for Gračac and had no time because he had a jobto do. 2906 The Special Police were wearing olive-green military suits without acamouflage pattern, ops vests, and mountain boots, and the commander was wearing aKevlar helmet. Steenbergen testified that their uniforms were the same as the uniform ofthe person seen in the second photograph of P324. 2907 On 6 August 1995, Team Gračacgot permission from the commander of the HV Special Forces, which had a lightningflash on their uniform, to patrol in Gračac. 2908 In his 2007 witness statements,Steenbergen testified that they initially saw regular HV troops taking property fromhouses, although in his testimony in court it became unclear whether these persons wereHV or Special Police, and whether he actually saw them taking property. 2909 He furthertestified that they then observed people, over 50 years old, in civilian clothes withorange arm bands removing furniture from houses and putting it outside, where it waslater collected by open civilian and military trucks. 2910 The witness stated that thisorganized “cleaning” continued for weeks. 2911 According to Croatian regulations,members of organized protection and safety units who undertook civil protection taskswithout wearing specified uniforms were to wear an orange band with a blue triangle on2903 D1932 (Dragutin Repinć, Expert Report, December 2009), para. 136.2904 P516 (Herman Steenbergen, witness statement, 18 July 2007), p. 1, paras 1-5, 7; P517 (HermanSteenbergen, witness statement, 18 September 2007), p. 1, para. 1; P518 (Herman Steenbergen, witnessstatement, 10 March 1996), p. 1; P519 (Incident report by Steenbergen regarding lost items due toOperation Storm, 21 September 1995), p. 1; Herman Steenbergen, T. 5408, 5442, 5461-5462.2905 P516 (Herman Steenbergen, witness statement, 18 July 2007), paras 37, 40-42; Herman Steenbergen,T. 5409-5410, 5467-5468.2906 P516 (Herman Steenbergen, witness statement, 18 July 2007), para. 41; Herman Steenbergen, T.5424-5425.2907 Herman Steenbergen, T. 5425-5426.2908 P516 (Herman Steenbergen, witness statement, 18 July 2007), para. 51; P517 (Herman Steenbergen,witness statement, 18 September 2007), para. 18; Herman Steenbergen, T. 5453.2909 P516 (Herman Steenbergen, witness statement, 18 July 2007), paras 49-52; P517 (HermanSteenbergen, witness statement, 18 September 2007), para. 20; P518 (Herman Steenbergen, witnessstatement, 10 March 1996), p. 1; Herman Steenbergen, T. 5411, 5429-5430.2910 P516 (Herman Steenbergen, witness statement, 18 July 2007), paras 49-50; Herman Steenbergen, T.5430, 5471.385Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `