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38754He also saw a civilian policeman loading horses from a house onto the back of atruck. 4041 Hill further testified that along the road, most of the houses were destroyed orburned but that there were no signs of fighting and that a week earlier they wereintact. 4042 The route he had taken was a 45-50-minute drive and they drove 60-70kilometres per hour. Once in Drniš, Hill did not see as much damage as he did on theroad towards it. 4043 Hill testified that on the way back from Drniš to Knin, they werestopped at a check-point outside Drniš, but after mentioning the name of Ivan Jurić, theywere allowed through. 4044 Hill testified that on 19 August 1995, he and two of his menwent to Drniš to collect a stolen UN bulldozer of high value but were not allowed totake it back by the local military police. 40451095. Murray Dawes, a former civilian UN accommodation officer stationed in Kninmunicipality from May 1994 to October 1995, 4046 testified that on 8 August 1995, heand a convoy of three UN water trucks drove south in the direction of Drniš. 4047 Alongthe main road, there were a lot of HV soldiers, and various check-points overseen by theCroatian military. They appeared to Dawes to be “well disciplined and well dressed.”All of the soldiers wore black uniforms, with flack jackets and berets. 4048 From whatDawes remembered, their vehicles were coloured differently from normal HV units’,but they had license plates starting with “HV” which indicated that they were stillmilitary vehicles. 4049 On the way from Knin to Drniš, HV soldiers in black uniforms,many of whom spoke good English, stopped the witness and his convoy five or sixtimes for ID checks. 4050 At one of the check-points, the soldier who stopped the witnesscalled for another individual, whose demeanor suggested to the witness that he was of ahigher rank and who spoke to the witness and then granted him permission to travelalong the road. 4051 Looking past the check-points and to the sides of the road, thewitness saw uniformed HV soldiers systematically removing items from houses and4041 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), pp. 30-31; John Hill, T. 3763.4042 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), pp. 30, 35-36; John Hill, T. 3763.4043 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), p. 36.4044 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), pp. 34-35.4045 P292 (John Hill, witness statement, 21 January 1998), pp. 87-88.4046 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), pp. 1-2.4047 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), p. 10; Murray Dawes, T. 10406, 10414-10415.4048 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), p. 10.4049 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), p. 10; Murray Dawes, T. 10407.4050 P980 (Murray Dawes, witness statement, 22 August 1996), p. 10; P981 (Murray Dawes, witnessstatement, 2 April 2008), para. 33; Murray Dawes, T. 10406.4051 Murray Dawes, T. 10407.561Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `