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38752houses burning right off the road. 4064 According to Flynn, nearly half of the houses haddestroyed roofs and were badly damaged. 4065 There were few civilians, but manymilitary vehicles travelling on the road. 4066 Once, Flynn and his HRAT team got out ofthe car to look at a house burning near the road, when men in military fatiguesapproached them from a car and were, according to Flynn, extremely disturbed that theHRAT team would take a close look at the house. 4067 On 11 August 1995, HRATreported that it had observed many houses burning between Knin and Rastević, inPolača municipality, to which Croatian authorities still denied access. 4068 On 15 August1995, Flynn travelled to Vrlika and observed that approximately one third of the homesin the villages on the way were destroyed. 4069 HRAT reported that on 1 September 1995HRAT observed one burning house near Strmica in Knin municipality. 40701097. On the morning of 6 August 1995, a Kenyan platoon commander travelled alongthe road from Drniš to Knin and saw many HV troops, fires, and killed livestock. 40711098. Alun Roberts, Press and Information Officer for UN Sector South in Knin frommid-September 1993 until about mid-October 1995, 4072 testified that after OperationStorm, he drove along the Knin–Drniš road several times, and saw houses that wereeither on fire or had been gutted by fire, along with hardly any sign of inhabitants. 4073On an HRAT patrol on 10 August 1995, Roberts saw, on the right of the Knin–Drnišroad, in a small hamlet twelve kilometres from Knin, a house that had just been set onfire. He then saw, less than 20 metres away, two soldiers appear from behind the house,cross the road and head back to two HV jeeps. Several kilometres further along thesame road, towards Kosovo town in Orlić municipality, Roberts found several houses4064 P20 (Edward Flynn, witness statement, 29 June 1997), pp. 16, 18-19; P21 (Edward Flynn, witnessstatement, 26-27 February 2008), para. 7; P30 (HRAT daily report, 9 August 1995), p. 1.4065 P21 (Edward Flynn, witness statement, 26-27 February 2008), para. 7; P30 (HRAT daily report, 9August 1995), p. 1.4066 P20 (Edward Flynn, witness statement, 29 June 1997), p. 16.4067 P20 (Edward Flynn, witness statement, 29 June 1997), p. 24.4068 P21 (Edward Flynn, witness statement, 26-27 February 2008), para. 9; P41 (HRAT daily report, 11August 1995), p. 2.4069 P21 (Edward Flynn, witness statement, 26-27 February 2008), para. 14; P33 (HRAT daily report, 15August 1995), pp. 2-3.4070 P21 (Edward Flynn, witness statement, 26-27 February 2008), para. 28; Edward Flynn, T. 1118-1119;P24 (Map of Sector South with marked locations); P49 (HRAT daily report, 30-31 August, 1 September1995), p. 1.4071 P351 (UNCRO Sector South daily situation report, 1 p.m., 6 August 1995), p. 4.4072 P675 (Alun Roberts, witness statement, 27 August 1997), p. 1, para. 1; P676 (Alun Roberts, witnessstatement, 31 July 1998), p. 1; P677 (Alun Roberts, witness statement, 28 February 2007), pp. 1-2; P678(Alun Roberts, witness statement, 7 February 2008), p. 1, paras 3-4, 6; P680 (Alun Roberts, witnessstatement, 1 July 2008), p. 1.4073 P677 (Alun Roberts, witness statement, 28 February 2007), p. 12.563Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `