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38895rifle at the chest of the witness. 3101 When the witness told him there was no need to doso since he was not putting up any resistance, the soldier said that their Serbian childrenhad waged war on Croatia and robbed and murdered, and that Croatian fathers taughttheir children to be a good example to others. 3102 The soldier came out of the house andwent to the garage, which almost immediately started to burn. 3103 When the witnesstried to save his cultivator from the garage, the soldiers warned him against going nearthe fire, which the witness understood as a threat to push him into the fire. 3104 Aftersaving his cultivator, he saw that his five haystacks, his house and his stable were onfire. 3105 He heard a vehicle start up. 3106 Everything was burnt to the ground, including atractor. 3107 On 10 August 1995, the witness saw that ten out of a total of about 100houses and stables in the village had been burnt very badly as well as thirty goats andsheep, along with two lambs that were not yet dead. 3108761. The witness testified that soldiers, dressed in HV uniform with the Croatian coatof arms on the sleeves, and civilians, women and men, on their own or in groups of twoor three, came to the village most days, most of the times in civilian cars, looting at firstnew electrical goods, and later everything of value. 3109 Sometimes the soldiers camewith large cattle trucks on which they loaded the villagers’ sheep and cattle and tookthem away. 3110762. The witness testified that on 14 August 1995 Uroš Ognjenović came to his houseand told him that a soldier had killed two lambs and that he wanted the lambs skinned.The witness went to the house of Uroš Ognjenović and skinned the lambs. The soldier,wearing a camouflage uniform with HV coat of arms on the sleeve, ordered the witnessto kill another lamb and skin it. By order of the soldier the witness put the three skinnedlambs in the boot of the soldier’s car, which looked like a civilian car. Other soldiers3101 P989 (Mirko Ognjenović, witness statement, 24 January 1999), pp. 4-5; Mirko Ognjenović, T. 10717,10751.3102 P989 (Mirko Ognjenović, witness statement, 24 January 1999), p. 4; Mirko Ognjenović, T. 10717.3103 P989 (Mirko Ognjenović, witness statement, 24 January 1999), p. 5.3104 P989 (Mirko Ognjenović, witness statement, 24 January 1999), p. 5; Mirko Ognjenović, T. 10751.3105 P989 (Mirko Ognjenović, witness statement, 24 January 1999), p. 5; Mirko Ognjenović, T. 10709,10751.3106 P989 (Mirko Ognjenović, witness statement, 24 January 1999), p. 5.3107 P989 (Mirko Ognjenović, witness statement, 24 January 1999), p. 5; Mirko Ognjenović, T. 10728-10729; D872 (UNMO report, 27 August 1995), p. 2.3108 P989 (Mirko Ognjenović, witness statement, 24 January 1999), p. 5; Mirko Ognjenović, T. 10709,10752-10753; D874 (Letters from the Police Administration of Šibenik-Knin with official notes), p. 3.3109 P989 (Mirko Ognjenović, witness statement, 24 January 1999), p. 5; Mirko Ognjenović, T. 10736,10752-10753.3110 P989 (Mirko Ognjenović, witness statement, 24 January 1999), p. 5.420Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `