Gotovina et al Judgement Volume I - ICTY

38842valuable items were placed in the backs of other trucks. 3502 Dawes observed that groupsof people behaved as if they had been assigned different tasks. 3503 There were a lot ofHV soldiers in the streets. 3504 From what the witness could see, all of them were fullyoccupied with the looting of houses. Dawes also saw civilian police officers patrollingthe streets by car and by foot, and engaging in looting. 3505 Both the soldiers and thecivilian police officers appeared to the witness to be looting openly. 3506 The Croatiansoldiers and civilian police emptied apartments and houses of personal items. 3507 Thesoldiers also took items from official buildings. 3508 He also noticed individuals wearingorange uniforms or overalls with a distinctive signature on their breast cleaning thestreets, guarded by the civilian police. A couple of civilian police officers he spoke toshortly thereafter, who said they were originally from Knin, informed him that theindividuals in orange uniforms were prisoners of war. 3509 Dawes also observed peoplewearing protective coveralls, cleaning out the refrigerators and removing perishableitems and garbage from inside the looted houses. 3510 The witness testified that thepeople in protective outfits were removing dead bodies from the houses. 3511 The witnessreturned to the UN compound at noon. 3512878. Andries Dreyer, UN Security Coordinator for Sector South in 1995, 3513 statedthat on 6 August 1995 he saw drunken soldiers looting food, liquor, and other items allover Knin, and he was surprised by the lack of discipline and structure of these forces. Itwas his impression that the soldiers were free to do whatever they wanted, as thoughKnin was their prize for victory. 3514 The Trial Chamber has further considered evidenceregarding Knin on 6 August 1995 from Berikoff, reviewed in chapter 4.2.1.3502 Murray Dawes, T. 10405.3503 Murray Dawes, T. 10405-10406.3504 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), p. 9; Murray Dawes, T. 10404.3505 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), p. 9.3506 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), p. 10.3507 Murray Dawes, T. 10404-10405, 10555.3508 Murray Dawes, T. 10556.3509 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), p. 9.3510 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), p. 9; P981 (Murray Dawes, witnessstatement, 2 April 2008), para. 32; Murray Dawes, T. 10405.3511 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), p. 9; Murray Dawes, T. 10405.3512 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), p. 10.3513 P72 (Andries Dreyer, witness statement, 22 February 2008), p. 1, para. 1; D109 (Andries Dreyer,witness statement, 4 February 1996), p.1; D110 (Andries Dreyer, witness statement, 8 November 1995),p. 1; Andries Dreyer, T. 1710, 1745-1746, 1748, 1812, 1831.3514 P72 (Andries Dreyer, witness statement, 22 February 2008), para. 20.473Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `