Gotovina et al Judgement Volume I - ICTY

386841226. The Trial Chamber has received evidence about the civilian presence in Knin atthe start of Operation Storm from several witnesses.1227. Marko Rajčić testified that in June 1995, he received information from Serbacquaintances that civilians began leaving Knin when the HV took control over thedominant features of Mount Dinara. 4499 Based on an analysis of the information he hadat the time, Rajčić testified that there were between 2,000 and 3,000 civilians in the sixsquare-kilometrearea of the settlement of Knin, which he based on a 1990 census of12,300 inhabitants, from which he subtracted the approximately 1,600 Croats and otherswho left before Operation Storm, as well as the population of able-bodied men aged 18to 60, who had been mobilized. 4500 Rajčić also had some information that civilians fromGrahovo and Glamoč, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Strmica, in Knin municipality, weregoing to Knin, while others from those areas were heading to Drvar, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 45011228. On 30 July 1995, HV Rear admiral Davor Domazet reported that the HV’s takingof Grahovo, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, on 28 July 1995 had created conditions for it tothreaten Knin directly, which had caused local Serbs to fear an HV attack on the entireRSK. 4502 Domazet further stated that more and more people were leaving the Krajinaarea and moving to the Republika Srpska and the FRY, although the latter had issued adecree closing its borders with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia out of fear of a massinflux of people from the Republika Srpska and RSK. Those who could not leave werepreparing shelters in houses, and evacuation routes had been designated. 45031229. Alain Gilbert testified that on or around 29 July 1995 up until the eve ofOperation Storm, the population of the town of Knin began to leave and there was astate of panic there. 4504 Witness 6 testified that by 4 August 1995, between five and tenper cent of the population of Knin had already left the city. 4505 Some had left by privatevehicles and some on a bus four or five days before Operation Storm. 4506 RobertWilliams testified that he could not clearly assess the amount of civilians present in4499 Marko Rajčić, T. 16286, 16483, 16619-16620.4500 Marko Rajčić, T. 16480-16481, 16483-16484.4501 Marko Rajčić, T. 16484.4502 P2619 (Intelligence administration report, Rear admiral Davor Domazet, 30 July 1995), pp. 1, 74503 P2619 (Intelligence administration report, Rear admiral Davor Domazet, 30 July 1995), pp. 1-2.4504 Alain Gilbert, T. 6419-6420.4505 Witness 6, T. 939.4506 Witness 6, T. 938-939.631Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `