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38761evening of 5 August 1995, after which they had been moved to, and spent five days in,the UN compound. They had then returned to their villages, after which the CroatianArmy burned the houses belonging to Serbs who had chosen to travel to Serbia. 4000 Thevillagers also stated that unidentified persons had photographed all villagers for thepurpose of Croatian ID cards, and that the Croatian army had treated them well, apartfrom one beating incident, and had given them some food. 4001 Two Serbs told UNMOthat they would like to “return” to Serbia soon. 4002 UNMO witnessed civilians loadinglivestock onto a truck. 40031081. Vesela Damjanić, a Serb from Vrbnik in Orlić municipality, 4004 testified that on6 August 1995, two soldiers, one of them wearing a camouflage uniform, entered herhouse and searched for money, ammunition, and weapons. The soldier wearing theuniform was about 35 years old and from Sinj; the witness had seen him before in Knin.He told the witness that his name was Stipe. The soldiers made the witness go in frontof them when searching the house so that if there was a bomb or booby trap she wouldbe killed first. 4005 On 11 or 12 August 1995, a man in green camouflage uniform, whomshe believed to be a soldier, fetched her from her house and took her to the nearby houseof a relative, Nikola Damjanić. She saw that the door was smashed in and that therewere a few other soldiers present. The man told her to enter the house first in case therewas a booby trap or grenade. The witness observed that the house was fully furnished.No one was living in the house at that time. Vesela Damjanić then went back to herhouse, from where she was able to see civilians and soldiers carrying furniture and othervaluable items out of Nikola Damjanić’s house, and soldiers loading these items intotrucks and cars. The witness also saw that they killed two pigs, two goats, and the dogof Nikola Damjanić. She did not see any policemen looting the house of her relative. 4006After the soldiers left, the witness went to Nikola Damjanić’s house and saw that therewas a mattress left, and because she believed that the soldiers would come back for it,she took it herself, for her son. Vesela Damjanić saw houses being looted by soldiersand civilians on a daily basis in her neighbourhood, and military and civilian vehicles4000 P131 (UNMO Sector South daily situation report, 9 p.m., 28 August 1995), p. 7.4001 P131 (UNMO Sector South daily situation report, 9 p.m., 28 August 1995), pp. 7-8.4002 P131 (UNMO Sector South daily situation report, 9 p.m., 28 August 1995), p. 8.4003 P131 (UNMO Sector South daily situation report, 9 p.m., 28 August 1995), p. 7.4004 P632 (Vesela Damjanić, witness statements), pp. 1-2 (witness statement of 8 July 1999), 7 (witnessstatement of 13 October 2004).4005 P632 (Vesela Damjanić, witness statements), p. 3 (witness statement of 8 July 1999).4006 P632 (Vesela Damjanić, witness statements), p. 4 (witness statement of 8 July 1999).554Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `