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38751that had just been set on fire, along with some parked HV vehicles, and he saw two tofour soldiers in Croatian uniform in front of the smoking houses. 4074 According to anarticle in the Feral Tribune (Split), a UN official counted 45 burning houses on the 18-kilometre road from Knin to Drniš along with smoke from other houses that hadpreviously been set on fire. 4075 Roberts submitted a photograph showing a dead animalon the Knin-Kistanje road around 14 August 1995. 4076 On 6 September 1995, Robertsalong with other members of an HRAT team found the area between Donji Lapac andthe Otrić junction in Gračac municipality deserted, with what was described as large andsystematic destruction with hundreds of houses burnt down. Those present documentedin a report that this stretch was the probably most comprehensively destroyed part ofSector South, and that most of this destruction was not a result of war operations. 40771099. Maria Teresa Mauro, a UN civil affairs officer and HRAT member in theformer Sector South based in Knin from March to December 1995, 4078 on 9 August1995 travelled the road between Knin and Drniš and stated that she saw burnt anddestroyed houses, as well as burning houses. 4079 On 10 August 1995 she saw houses andcrops ablaze, as well as animal carcasses everywhere. 4080 She confirmed that on 11August 1995 she saw many houses ablaze between Knin and Rastević, in Polačamunicipality, and that during the evening along the road from Knin to Drniš she sawbetween 35-40 houses in flames and several HV vehicles in the area, as described in anHRAT report of 11 August 1995. 40811100. Goran Dodig testified that on 7 August 1995, he took the road from Split, viaDrniš, to Knin, and testified that there were many people on the roads. 4082 According to4074 P680 (Alun Roberts, witness statement, 1 July 2008), para. 6.4075 P678 (Alun Roberts, witness statement, 7 February 2008), paras 28-29; P711 (Roberts press statementin Tanjug, 14 August 1995).4076 P680 (Alun Roberts, witness statement, 1 July 2008), para. 32, no. 22; P683 (Various photographs ofdestruction, looting and killing in Knin and in villages taken between 10 August and mid-October 1995),pp. 43-44.4077 P710 (HRAT report Donji Lapac and Otrić, 6 September 1995).4078 P1098 (Maria Teresa Mauro, witness statement, 3 March 2000), pp. 1-2; P1099 (Maria Teresa Mauro,witness statement, 6 February 2008), p. 1, paras 1, 7-9, 11-12; Maria Teresa Mauro, T. 11998, 12000,12024, 12075-12076.4079 P1099 (Maria Teresa Mauro, witness statement, 6 February 2008), para. 18.4080 P1099 (Maria Teresa Mauro, witness statement, 6 February 2008), para. 23.4081 P1098 (Maria Teresa Mauro, witness statement, 3 March 2000), pp. 3-4.4082 D1705 (Goran Dodig, witness statement, 16 May 2009), p. 5; Goran Dodig, T. 22644.564Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `