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38878burnt or heavily damaged and looted. 3230 On a visit to Kistanje on 13 August 1995,Roberts found only one elderly male Serbian inhabitant left and found the villagecompletely burnt down. 3231 Roberts reported that Kistanje had a population of 8,000inhabitants before the Croatian offensive. 3232 In late August 1995, he came across adestroyed war memorial in Kistanje. 3233 From his many visits, Roberts testified thatthere was no SVK military equipment or personnel stationed in Kistanje. 3234802. Witness 86 3235 testified that there were about 2,000 houses in Kistanje beforeOperation Storm. 3236 When the witness visited Kistanje, approximately five or six daysafter the civilian police had taken over police affairs there he observed that the entirecentre of town had been burned down and that a large number of houses in otherneighbourhoods had been burned down as well. 3237 The houses that had not been burneddown, had been looted, with the doors broken down, and the property taken out. 3238803. On 11 August 1995, HRAT reported that Kistanje was almost completelydestroyed and almost all of Ðevrske, in Kistanje municipality, was burning. 3239 EdwardFlynn, a Human Rights Officer with the Office of the UNHCHR and the leader of oneof the HRATs in the former Sector South from 7 August to mid-September 1995, 3240travelled on 13 August 1995 with Alun Roberts and others to Kistanje, Ðevrske andBenkovac, and saw dozens of burning houses, burning fields everywhere and at least ten3230 P677 (Alun Roberts, witness statement, 28 February 2007), p. 12, no. 1; P678 (Alun Roberts, witnessstatement, 7 February 2008), para 34, nos 1, 3; P707 (Photographs destruction in Knin and villages andDPs in UN compound), second row right picture; P709 (Photographs destruction in Knin and countrysideand DPs in UN compound), fourth row, both pictures.3231 P677 (Alun Roberts, witness statement, 28 February 2007), p. 12, no. 1; P680 (Alun Roberts, witnessstatement, 1 July 2008), para. 6; P684 (Alun Roberts’s report to the press on HV’s human rightsviolations in Sector South, 12 October 1995), p. 1.3232 P684 (Alun Roberts’s report to the press on HV’s human rights violations in Sector South, 12 October1995), p. 1.3233 P678 (Alun Roberts, witness statement, 7 February 2008), para. 34, no. 2; P708 (Photographsdestruction in villages and DPs in UN compound and on convoy), first row, left picture.3234 P677 (Alun Roberts, witness statement, 28 February 2007), p. 12.3235 P487 (Witness 86, witness statement, 19 September 2001), p. 1, paras 26, 28, 32-33; P490 (Decisionby Mladen Lacković to return Witness 86 to his previous position, 27 September 1995).3236 P487 (Witness 86, witness statement, 19 September 2001), para. 75; Witness 86, T. 5340.3237 Witness 86, T. 5338, 5340, 53473238 Witness 86, T. 5338, 5347.3239 P21 (Edward Flynn, witness statement, 26-27 February 2008), para. 9; P41 (HRAT daily report, 11August 1995), p. 2.3240P20 (Edward Flynn, witness statement, 29 June 1997), pp. 1-2, 6, 13, 23; P21 (Edward Flynn, witnessstatement, 26-27 February 2008), p. 1, paras 3-4, 36; Edward Flynn, T. 1044, 1270, 1291-1292, 1312,1325.437Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `