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38873witness to set up a police office in the primary school in Kistanje. 3282 Witness 84 statedthat the police learnt that the road between Knin and Šibenik which went via Kistanjeand Skradin was used extensively to transport looted goods and therefore a check-pointwas set up on the road in Kistanje. 3283815. On 31 August 1995, at 5:25 p.m., at the Kistanje barrier check-point a VW vanwas stopped with undocumented goods. 3284 Knin VP members brought the HV memberin, who gave a statement and was allowed to leave. On the same day, at 7:27 p.m., HVmembers were found taking items in Kistanje. The MUP let them go before a patrolarrived. 3285 On 2 September 1995, at 12:15 p.m., MUP officers stopped two soldierstransporting items without papers; a patrol was sent. 3286 On 3 September 1995, at 2:10p.m. the VP reported from the ground that at the Kistanje roadblock, HV soldiers werestopped with stolen goods. After this, a patrol brought the HV soldiers in, handed themover to a crime inspector, after this they were released. 3287816. As set out above, the Trial Chamber has received much evidence on the allegeddestruction and plunder in Kistanje in August and September 1995. First, the TrialChamber will turn to the events in Kistanje in the period from the beginning ofOperation Storm until and including 6 August 1995. The Trial Chamber notes at theoutset that the evidence of certain witnesses, who were present in Kistanje on 6 August1995, like Rajčić or Perković, reported that they did not see any or only very isolatedincidents of looting or burning. The Trial Chamber considered these accounts, and thatthey may have been influenced by ulterior motives, against the backdrop of otherconcordant accounts of eye-witnesses of different backgrounds, and ofcontemporaneous Croatian documentation, like the SIS report of 8 August 1995 (P203).817. The Trial Chamber finds, based on Dawes’s testimony, that in Kistanje, on 6August 1995, after 10 a.m., persons referred to as HV soldiers blew up at least twohouses. Considering the testimonies of Dawes and Gojanović, the Trial Chamber findsthat persons referred to as soldiers or HV soldiers took personal items - TV sets, stereos,3282 P2393 (Witness 84, witness statement, 20 November 2007), para. 21; P2395 (Witness 84, witnessstatement, 9 March 2002), para. 15; Witness 84, T. 11317, 11430.3283 Witness 84, T. 11317.3284 P886 (Duty Log of the Joint VP Company in Knin from 11 August to 11 November 1995), p. 31 Thetranslation of this document is split up in several parts in ecourt. Also when opening one part of thetranslation, the sequence of the page numbers in the drop down menu is messed up. This needs to befixed.3285 P886 (Duty Log of the Joint VP Company in Knin from 11 August to 11 November 1995), p. 31.3286 P886 (Duty Log of the Joint VP Company in Knin from 11 August to 11 November 1995), p. 37.442Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `