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1 say. Thank you.

2 JUDGE PARKER: Thank you. We will look at that at a convenient

3 time.

4 Good morning, sir.

5 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Good morning.

6 JUDGE PARKER: Would you please repeat after me. I solemnly

7 declare ...

8 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I solemnly declare ...

9 JUDGE PARKER: ... that I will speak the truth ...

10 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] ... that I will speak the

11 truth ...

12 JUDGE PARKER: ... the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

13 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] ... the whole truth and nothing

14 but the truth.

15 WITNESS: RESHIT SALIHI

16 [Witness answered through interpreter]

17 JUDGE PARKER: Thank you very much. Please sit down.

18 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Thank you.

19 JUDGE PARKER: Now Ms. D'Ascoli has some questions for you.

20 MS. D'ASCOLI: Yes, thanks, Your Honours.

21 Examination by Ms. D'Ascoli:

22 Q. Good morning, Witness, could you please state your full name for

23 the record.

24 A. Reshit Salihi.

25 Q. And could you please state your date and place of birth.

Page 3457

1 A. 1947, I was born in Celine, in February.

2 Q. On which day in February?

3 A. Yes, in February.

4 Q. Do you remember the day?

5 A. No, I'm not educated.

6 Q. Okay. Thank you. Which is your current occupation, Mr. Salihi?

7 A. Farmer.

8 Q. And where are you living at the moment?

9 A. In Celine.

10 Q. Thank you. Mr. Salihi, did you provide a statement to the

11 Office of the Prosecutor in April 1999 and then an addendum in January

12 2002?

13 A. In Tirana.

14 Q. Yes. Do you remember if you provided a statement to the OTP?

15 A. Yes.

16 Q. And have you recently had the opportunity to review this

17 statement? Was this statement read back to you?

18 A. Yes.

19 Q. And during this review I remember that -- on the -- you indicated

20 that the year of your birth indicated on the front page of this statement

21 was not corrected because for the record this is the 65 ter number 02336.

22 And the front page of this -- of the statement containing the witness's

23 information reports that Mr. Salihi's date of birth is the

24 15th of February but 1940 rather than 1947.

25 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] That number is wrong. I was born

Page 3458

1 in 1947 in February.

2 MS. D'ASCOLI:

3 Q. Perfect. Thank you. And, Mr. Salihi, other than that with this

4 correction, are you satisfied that the information contained in your

5 statement is true and accurate to the best of your knowledge and belief?

6 A. It is true and correct because I saw everything.

7 Q. Thank you.

8 MS. D'ASCOLI: Your Honours, I seek to tender this statement, and

9 it is the 65 ter number 02336.

10 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

11 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00632, Your Honours.

12 MS. D'ASCOLI: Thanks.

13 Q. Mr. Salihi, do you remember you also testified about the same

14 events in the Milutinovic et al. case in September 2006?

15 A. Yes.

16 Q. And have you recently had the opportunity to review your previous

17 testimony? Was this testimony read back to you recently?

18 A. [No interpretation]

19 THE INTERPRETER: The interpreter did not catch what the witness

20 said. Could the witness be asked to sit closer to the microphone,

21 please.

22 MS. D'ASCOLI:

23 Q. Mr. Salihi, could you please sit closer to the microphone. Thank

24 you. And could you please repeat the answer to my question, and I had

25 just asked you whether this -- your previous testimony in Milutinovic was

Page 3459

1 recently read back to you. Could you please answer.

2 A. Yes.

3 Q. Thank you very much. We just had a problem with the

4 interpretation.

5 And, Mr. Salihi, does this transcript of your testimony

6 accurately reflect your evidence, and would you testify to the same fact

7 or in the same way today?

8 A. Yes, everything is correct, and I will say the same things today

9 that I said then.

10 Q. Thank you.

11 MS. D'ASCOLI: Your Honours, I'd like to tender this transcript

12 into evidence, and it is the 65 ter number 05029.

13 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

14 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00633, Your Honours.

15 MS. D'ASCOLI: Thanks.

16 And I will now read a summary of this witness's evidence.

17 The witness describes the attack by Serb forces on the village of

18 Celine in Orahovac municipality in March 1999. On the early morning of

19 the 25th of March, 1999, Serb forces started shelling the village of

20 Celine, looting and burning houses. Following this attack, part of the

21 witness's family fled and left the house and family compound, while the

22 witness remained there with some other family members.

23 In the afternoon, as a group of policemen approached the

24 witness's house, one of the witness's brothers was killed in front of the

25 witness by a burst of automatic fire. The witness went hiding in the

Page 3460

1 neighbourhood and later he fled to the forest where he remained there for

2 three days until a group of policemen arrived to the forest.

3 The policemen separated women and children from men, searched and

4 robbed people, and then marched them back to the village at gun point.

5 They were then forced to walk in a convoy in the direction of Prizren.

6 The witness describes that after a march of about 30 minutes, a

7 large number of trucks arrived. The police forced the villagers to board

8 the trucks and transported them to Zhur, where they were ordered off the

9 trucks and told to walk to Albania. The witness and his immediate family

10 were then brought to a refugee camp in Tirana.

11 And this is the end of the in-court summary. I will now proceed

12 with some questions.

13 Q. Mr. Salihi, as you know, the Trial Chamber already has before it

14 your previous testimony and statements, so I will just have a few

15 questions for you. In your statement at page 2, paragraph 4, for the

16 record, you referred to the shelling of your village, Celine, by Serb

17 forces on the 25th of March, 1999, and you say that after the shelling

18 Serb ground forces, I quote, "dressed in black uniforms entered the

19 village."

20 Can I just ask you who these Serb ground forces were or if you

21 could define them better, please.

22 A. Yes, they were Serb police.

23 Q. And can you tell us what these forces did when they entered the

24 village?

25 A. They entered the village. They started burning the village.

Page 3461

1 They killed people and looted the houses.

2 Q. Also in your statement exactly you mentioned that the Serbs set

3 fire to houses and buildings in the village, and I wanted to ask you

4 whether this is something that you saw with your eyes, the fact that they

5 were burning and looting houses?

6 A. Yes, I did see them with my own eyes.

7 Q. And where were you located on the 25th of March, in the morning,

8 when you observed all of this?

9 A. At home. Because I could see the village, and I saw the infantry

10 and the police when they entered, when they set the houses on fire, when

11 they looted the houses, et cetera.

12 Q. Okay. And can you tell us to which ethnicity these houses were

13 belonging, the houses that were looted and burned?

14 A. Albanians. Serbs never lived in our village, in Celina.

15 Q. So there were no Serbs living in Celine I understand; right?

16 A. No.

17 Q. Thank you. Mr. Salihi, in your statement - and for the record

18 this is page 3, paragraph 3, and I think in the B/C/S version it's the

19 beginning of page 4 - you described how, in the evening of the

20 25th of March, you fled to the nearby forest and then you remained there

21 for three days. Can I ask you whether there were other people also

22 gathered there?

23 A. The whole village was there, but there were also refugees from

24 nearby villages that had fled their villages.

25 Q. And do you know why those people were there, why they had to flee

Page 3462

1 the other villages?

2 A. Because their houses were burning and the people of that -- those

3 villages did not have anywhere else to go.

4 Q. And do you remember from which villages they had to flee?

5 A. Yes. From Krusha e Madhe, Hoxha, Brestovc, Nagavci.

6 Q. Thank you. While you were hiding in the forest in those days,

7 could you hear or see anything from there?

8 A. We could hear the shots from the village, the houses were

9 burning, we could see the smoke billowing from the houses.

10 Q. Mr. Salihi, let's now move to the moment in which the policemen

11 arrived, separated women and children from men, and then they brought you

12 back to the village of Celine.

13 Can I ask you what -- if you saw anything while passing through

14 Celine while you were brought back to the village, if you remember?

15 A. We couldn't see anything. We couldn't look up. We were

16 isolated, we were surrounded, and we couldn't look around.

17 Q. Were you escorted while you were brought back to the village?

18 A. Every 10 or 20 metres there was a different group of policemen,

19 and they continued beating people up and ill treating them.

20 Q. So I understand you didn't have the chance of looking what was

21 going on in the village, given the conditions in which you were ...

22 A. No, I didn't have a chance to see what was going on, but the

23 village was on fire.

24 Q. You remember seeing this fire around while you were walking

25 or ...

Page 3463

1 A. Yes, yes. We could see the flames, the smoke, everything.

2 Q. Mr. Salihi, you were then transferred by trucks to Zhur and then

3 ordered by the police to walk to Albania. And can you tell us what

4 happened at the border before entering Albania?

5 A. We were asked to hand over the IDs or any other documents. There

6 were no problems there.

7 Q. And did you do that, did you hand over your IDs at that moment at

8 the border?

9 A. I handed over my document when I was in the Pisjak mountain, and

10 at the border I did not have any ID or any money on me.

11 Q. Okay. So at that moment you couldn't hand over your ID because

12 you had done that already before in Celine?

13 A. I did not have it, no.

14 Q. Okay. I understand. Do you remember when you returned to Kosovo

15 from Albania?

16 A. Yes. Three months later.

17 Q. And can you tell us what you found when you returned to your

18 village in Celine three months later?

19 A. There was nothing in the -- left in the village. Whatever was

20 there before was burnt, everything, the houses and everything in them had

21 been burnt.

22 Q. And what about your house and your family compound?

23 A. Yes.

24 Q. What did happen to your house and your family compound? Which

25 were the conditions in which you found them when you returned to Celine?

Page 3464

1 A. The houses were all burnt, as I said. When we went back we

2 stayed in tents that we had received in Albania because we couldn't live

3 in the houses.

4 Q. So also your house was burned and destroyed?

5 A. It had been razed to the ground.

6 Q. Okay. Mr. Salihi, was there a mosque in Celine?

7 A. Yes.

8 Q. And what about the mosque, how did you find the mosque when you

9 returned to your village, in which condition was it?

10 A. The mosque had been razed to the ground as well.

11 Q. Did you see this with your eyes of course?

12 A. Yes -- now -- yes.

13 Q. I'm going to show you a photograph.

14 MS. D'ASCOLI: I'd like to call up the 65 ter number 02445,

15 please.

16 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I can tell you -- may I?

17 MS. D'ASCOLI:

18 Q. Can you see the photograph on the screen, Mr. Salihi?

19 A. Yes, yes, I can see it. Can I show you? Can I point?

20 Q. Oh, I would like to ask you whether you recognise what's depicted

21 in this picture first of all.

22 A. Here you can see the wall, the surrounding wall, and the two

23 trees.

24 Q. What's in the picture ? What can you see in the picture, first

25 of all, besides the wall?

Page 3465

1 A. The mosque itself.

2 Q. Which mosque is this, if you recognise it?

3 A. The mosque in Celine.

4 Q. And how can you recognise it?

5 A. According to the picture, it looks like that.

6 Q. You were mentioning the trees and the walls. Do these elements

7 mean anything to you?

8 A. Yes, yes.

9 Q. So I take it that this was the way in which the mosque in Celine

10 looked like before its destruction?

11 A. Yes.

12 Q. Okay.

13 MS. D'ASCOLI: Your Honours, I'd like to tender this photograph

14 into evidence, please. It's 65 ter number 02445.

15 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

16 MS. D'ASCOLI: Thank you.

17 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00634, Your Honours.

18 MS. D'ASCOLI:

19 Q. Mr. Salihi, how many members of your family were killed in Celine

20 on the 25th of March, 1999?

21 A. Eight.

22 Q. And we're talking about your brother, Bajram; your brother Faik;

23 his wife and five children; right?

24 A. Yes, yes.

25 Q. And do you know -- also know what happened to the Zeqiri family

Page 3466

1 who joined you in your family compound on the 25th of March?

2 A. They were together with us, and they were there as well.

3 Q. And did you find out when you returned to Celine what happened to

4 them?

5 A. When we went back, they were dead.

6 Q. Were their bodies found anywhere?

7 A. Yes.

8 Q. And can you tell us where exactly if you know, if you remember?

9 A. Yes. They were in the yard where they were killed, and a group

10 of people that had remained in the village had buried them; and when we

11 went back we found them.

12 Q. And do you mean both the bodies of the Zeqiri families -- do you

13 mean the bodies of the Zeqiri family?

14 A. Yes, the Zeqiri family and my family because they were together.

15 Q. Okay. So I understand their bodies were found together in the

16 yard where supposedly they were killed?

17 A. At the same place.

18 Q. And what happened then?

19 A. There was a foreign team there when we exhumed them. We gave

20 them notes about the people who had been killed, then they were returned

21 to us; and we reburied them in the village.

22 Q. Thank you very much, Mr. Salihi, for having answered my

23 questions.

24 MS. D'ASCOLI: Your Honours, I don't have further questions for

25 this witness.

Page 3467

1 JUDGE PARKER: Thank you.

2 Mr. Djurdjic, do you cross-examine?

3 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Thank you, Your Honour, yes.

4 Cross-examination by Mr. Djurdjic:

5 Q. [Interpretation] Good morning, Mr. Salihi. I am Veljko Djurdjic,

6 member of the Defence team for the accused, Vlastimir Djordjevic.

7 Together with me is Ms. Marie O'Leary, member of the team.

8 I will ask you to listen to me carefully so that we finish this

9 examination as soon as possible. Since our conversation is being

10 translated into several languages, I would kindly ask you to give me an

11 answer once I've put my question.

12 Bearing in mind the problems related to the year of your birth,

13 it's been almost ten years since you gave your statement in Tirana, and

14 it is only now that we establish that you were born seven years later.

15 And to this day you don't know what the actual date of your birth was.

16 However, do you know whether you were before -- born before or after the

17 Second World War?

18 A. That I don't know. I was born in 1947. I really don't know when

19 the Second World War or Third World War was. Maybe you do know that.

20 Q. Thank you, but could you tell me whether you attended school at

21 any point in time?

22 A. No.

23 Q. Thank you. And could you tell me what is your mother tongue?

24 A. Albanian.

25 Q. Thank you. I will now start at the end of the

Page 3468

1 examination-in-chief by my learned friend. You ended with your answer by

2 saying that members of your family and the Zeqiri family were buried in

3 the yard of your family property; is that correct?

4 A. Yes, that's correct.

5 Q. Thank you. And do you know who buried them?

6 A. No.

7 Q. Thank you. And you noted now that a team came and exhumed the

8 bodies; am I right -- or to be more specific, not exhumed them but dug

9 them out?

10 A. Yes. Every parent gave the details of their family members, and

11 then the foreigners took the bodies away to Rahovec.

12 Q. Thank you. Was the location where the exhumation was carried out

13 photographed?

14 A. Yes. The foreigners took photographs.

15 Q. I think this is the third trial that you're testifying at. Were

16 you able to see the photographs in the courtroom? Were you shown those

17 photographs?

18 A. Even if they show me these photographs, I cannot say anything

19 about them. I haven't finished any school, as you know. I cannot mark

20 them.

21 Q. Thank you. Now I would like us to look at Exhibit 634. It was

22 admitted into evidence a little while ago.

23 Mr. Salihi, is there a mosque without the minaret?

24 A. Ours had a minaret.

25 Q. Well, have you ever seen a mosque without the minaret?

Page 3469

1 A. No, I didn't go around to see any other mosques. I had one in my

2 village.

3 Q. Thank you. Well, how was your mosque different from other

4 mosques, apart from the fact that it was in your village?

5 A. I can tell that this is our mosque from the entrance to the yard,

6 from the surrounding wall, and from the two trees.

7 Q. Thank you. Now, would you agree with me that you cannot see the

8 yard on this photograph?

9 A. No, you cannot see the yard for the moment.

10 Q. Thank you. And on this photograph you're able to recognise the

11 mosque by the wall, the wall that is here on the outside?

12 A. Yes, based on that and the two trees that are shown on the

13 photograph.

14 Q. Thank you, Mr. Salihi. Well, you can't actually see the mosque.

15 You can only see the minaret and whatever is next to it.

16 A. You can see the building of the mosque too a little bit.

17 Q. Well, just a little bit. Yes, I agree with you.

18 You've told us that the people fled into the woods because their

19 houses had been torched. Well, how could they all gather in the same

20 place, people from different villages. You mentioned Nagavci, Krusa,

21 Brestovac, if I'm not mistaken, your village?

22 A. Listen, people were fleeing their homes. They were going to

23 family's in-laws with their families. So when the houses were set on

24 fire, everybody with their families left for the mountain of Pisjak.

25 Q. Well, that's what I'm asking you. How come that you were all in

Page 3470

1 the same place, yet Orahovac was nearby as far as I know and Prizren was

2 close by, Pirane, Zrze? So how come that you all headed into the

3 mountains towards Mount Pisjak?

4 A. It was impossible for the people to move around. They were all

5 looking for shelter. We were surrounded from all sides.

6 Q. And how do you know about the other villages, Brestovac; Krusa,

7 Velika, Mala; and Nagavci?

8 A. Not Krusha e Vogel but Krusha e Madhe. As I said earlier, people

9 had families in villages and that's where they took shelter. They had

10 nowhere else to go.

11 Q. Thank you. You said Mount Pisjak. I went through all the

12 geographical maps and I never found this name, this mountain. Could you

13 please tell me how far is this Mount Pisjak from your village, the place

14 where you sought shelter in the woods that you called Pisjak?

15 A. As far as I know, it's about 2 kilometres away. I didn't measure

16 the distance, but this should be the approximate distance.

17 Q. Thank you. We will go back to some photographs later, and we

18 will perhaps be able to determine that with some precision. Mr. Salihi,

19 you told us you were a farmer. Was your father a farmer too?

20 A. Yes.

21 Q. Thank you. Was your father alive in 1999 when the war broke out?

22 A. No. He died 25 years earlier.

23 Q. Thank you. If I am right, you had six brothers?

24 A. Yes, you're right.

25 Q. Thank you. Were all brothers alive in 1999 when the war broke

Page 3471

1 out?

2 A. Yes.

3 Q. Thank you. And were your other brothers farmers too?

4 A. Yes, all of them.

5 Q. Thank you. Now, could you tell me, after your grandfather died,

6 was the property divided?

7 A. No, we have all the property together.

8 Q. Thank you. I think you understand me correctly. I wasn't asking

9 you about the father's property, but your inheritance from your

10 grandfather. So was there a division of property or did you all live

11 together in a commune of sorts?

12 A. We own everything together.

13 Q. Thank you. So can I then conclude that with your uncles and

14 their children and your family, that you all lived in a commune?

15 A. Everybody has his house, but we live all together.

16 Q. Thank you. Who was the head, the elder, of the commune?

17 A. You mean from my brothers?

18 Q. Yes, or uncles, whatever.

19 A. My brother Bajram was the eldest.

20 Q. Thank you. How many houses were there in your family property?

21 A. Six brothers, six houses.

22 Q. Thank you. What was the surface area of that place where the

23 houses were?

24 A. About 20 acres.

25 Q. Thank you. And now around this family compound where the houses

Page 3472

1 were, was there a wall dividing the compound from the rest of the place?

2 A. Miftar Zeqiri who was my neighbour and still is, he had his own

3 wall too.

4 Q. Thank you. And was there a gate whereby one entered into your

5 family compound?

6 A. Everyone can enter his house from the main road through an

7 entrance.

8 Q. Thank you. How tall was the wall?

9 A. Listen, I didn't measure it, but it's less than 2 metres I would

10 say.

11 Q. Thank you. And what was the gate made of?

12 A. I don't understand your question. You mean the door built within

13 the wall or ... ?

14 Q. Yes, yes, the ones that were built into the wall and that opened

15 to allow entrance into your family property.

16 A. Wooden gate.

17 Q. Thank you. And what was the wall made of?

18 A. Bricks, red bricks.

19 Q. Thank you. Did you have any agricultural machinery?

20 A. We had horses. We used them to work on the land.

21 Q. Thank you. And did you perhaps have a truck or some passenger

22 cars?

23 A. No, we didn't.

24 Q. Thank you. Mr. Salihi, as regards the division of labour, your

25 contribution to this commune was only to work the land, or did you go to

Page 3473

1 other places to sell the produce?

2 A. Yes, on the market and everywhere where we could win or earn our

3 bread. We didn't choose the work.

4 Q. Thank you. Can I then conclude that you left Celine to go to

5 other places; and if yes, can you tell me what places you went to?

6 A. Prizren, Gjakove, and Rahovec.

7 Q. Thank you. How much land did you own?

8 A. 2 hectares.

9 Q. Thank you.

10 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Could I please have on our screens

11 the Defence document D002-5633.

12 Q. Mr. Salihi, can you tell us this road that we can see on the

13 right-hand side of this photograph, do you know where this road leads to?

14 A. As I said in the earlier -- as I said earlier, I cannot help you

15 with this because I haven't finished any school. I cannot mark it.

16 Q. Mr. Salihi, I didn't ask you to mark anything. I just asked you

17 to tell me. You can see as well as anyone else, so I'm just asking you

18 whether you know this. And you live there, you say that you travelled to

19 Djakovica and to Prizren, so this is the photograph of Celine and the

20 area around it. So -- okay, I'm not going to ask you about the road, but

21 could you tell me, you see the village of Celine, can you recognise it?

22 A. Please, I cannot distinguish between the roads because I cannot

23 read the map. I cannot tell anything on this photograph.

24 Q. Thank you. Well I'm not going to ask you anything about the

25 roads, but could you show where your house in Celine was?

Page 3474

1 A. I cannot help you at all.

2 Q. Very well, but can you help me, can you tell me where your house

3 was in Celine?

4 A. I really don't understand your question. I'm here to tell you

5 about what I went through, what I experienced. This is the main purpose

6 I'm here.

7 Q. Yes, Mr. Salihi, that's precisely why I'm asking you these

8 questions. I want you to tell me where your house in Celine was because

9 as far as I can recall from your statements you talk about that house,

10 not only your house but other buildings, houses that belonged to other

11 people, and I'm going to be asking you questions about those too.

12 MS. D'ASCOLI: Your Honours. I'm sorry to interrupt.

13 JUDGE PARKER: Ms. D'Ascoli.

14 MS. D'ASCOLI: I'm sorry to interrupt. I think that the witness

15 has already answered and has indicated that he cannot help with this map.

16 JUDGE PARKER: Counsel is entitled to explore whether he has any

17 visual recognition of the picture depicted by the map.

18 Carry on, please.

19 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Thank you, Your Honour. I

20 accepted the fact that the witness is unable to visually recognise things

21 here, so we have to take the long road here. I'm asking him on the basis

22 of his life in the village where the house was, and then I will have to

23 determine where other buildings were and whether he could -- well, I want

24 to check, verify, his statement. Maybe he doesn't want to answer my

25 questions, then let him say so; and I will not insist on the answer. But

Page 3475

1 then it's a whole different situation.

2 Q. Mr. Salihi, do you understand me? Forget about the map.

3 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Please remove the map from the

4 screen.

5 Q. I'm asking you where your family property was in the village of

6 Celine.

7 A. I don't know what is going on. As I said, I cannot read the map,

8 I cannot pin-point my house on the map because that would be a lie, and

9 I'm not here to lie.

10 Q. Thank you. I'm sure that you have come here to tell the truth,

11 so could you please tell me where your house, your family property, in

12 Celine was?

13 A. Yes, I can describe it using words. It was on the lower part,

14 the part that connects Krusha e Madhe and Celine. And there is a river

15 separating us. This is what I can say as far as the location of my house

16 is concerned.

17 Q. Thank you. How far from your house was the railroad?

18 A. I mentioned the river, right, the Krusha river? Is this what you

19 have in mind?

20 Q. No, I'm asking you about the railway tracks, how far were they

21 from your house?

22 A. Now I understand it, the railway tracks, about 1.000 metres away.

23 Q. Thank you. And could you tell me the Prizren-Djakovica road, how

24 far was it from your house?

25 A. The road is close to the railway tracks, the asphalt road.

Page 3476

1 Q. Thank you. Now, please tell me, your house, where was it in

2 relation to the Nagavci road?

3 A. It's very close to us. We -- our fields are close to each other.

4 It's not very far.

5 Q. Thank you. You were referring to the land that you farmed, and I

6 was talking about your house and the Nagavci road, so just to get some

7 bearings here. So how far is that road from your house?

8 A. You have to go through Krusha e Madhe, then to Nagavc, and then

9 Hoxha, Brestovc, Rahovec, that's the direction of the road.

10 Q. Thank you. Is your house on the Nogavac road?

11 A. No, no, we live in Celine.

12 Q. Well, I understand that, but I'm asking you whether your house

13 was on the road leading to Nogavac, and if not if you could explain to us

14 where the road leading to Nogavac was.

15 A. You have to go to the main road of Celine, go through

16 Krusha e Vogel, and then turn to Nagavc.

17 Q. Thank you. Let's clear this up. The black-top road from Prizren

18 to Djakovica has an off-shoot that leads to Celine; am I right?

19 A. Yes.

20 Q. This road that veers from the main road to go to Celine, it's not

21 a black-top road, it's a dirt road; am I right?

22 A. Yes, that's what it used to be, but now it is asphalted.

23 Q. Thank you. But now tell me, the road from Celine to Bela Crkva,

24 was there some kind of a local road?

25 A. Yes, because the Celine road is linked to Bellacerke.

Page 3477

1 Q. But -- now, where was your house in relation to that road?

2 A. The road to Bellacerke, not to Krusha.

3 Q. Yes, yes, to Bela Crkva.

4 A. No, not towards Bellacerke -- if you go to the main road, yes,

5 but not otherwise.

6 Q. My previous question - and this is why I followed up on it - is:

7 Was there a local road linking Celine with Bela Crkva?

8 A. Yes, yes.

9 Q. Now, my follow-up question was: Where was your house in relation

10 to this local road going from Celine to Bela Crkva?

11 A. It's far away from that road.

12 Q. Thank you. Well, if you agree with me, Bela Crkva is to the west

13 of Celine?

14 A. Bellacerke is next to Rahovec.

15 Q. Very well, but the main road from Prizren to Djakovica - and

16 given the location of the village of Celine - is your house in the part

17 of the village that is closer to the main road, that would be the

18 southern part of the village, is this where your house is?

19 A. No, it's not close to the main road. We're in the upper part of

20 the village.

21 Q. Thank you. And could you tell me where is the school in relation

22 to your family compound?

23 A. The school is further up. It's above the village.

24 Q. Thank you. And where is the mosque in relation to your house?

25 A. Yes, it is beyond the school.

Page 3478

1 Q. Thank you. And if you take the road, how far is from your house

2 to the school building?

3 A. It's quite a bit of a walk.

4 Q. Thank you. And am I right if I say that it takes even longer to

5 walk to the mosque from your house?

6 A. Yes, yes.

7 Q. Thank you. Now, can you tell me if you know whether there is a

8 village leader in Celine?

9 A. I don't think there is.

10 Q. Thank you. Did you ever attend any meeting that was attended by

11 all the heads of all the families in Celine?

12 A. There were no meetings of that sort.

13 Q. Thank you. And do you know a person by the name of Agim Jemini?

14 A. Yes.

15 Q. Did you see him in The Hague now?

16 A. Yes.

17 Q. Do you know where his house was in Celine?

18 A. Yes, I do. He does not live close to me.

19 Q. And could you tell us where he lives?

20 A. You mean Agim?

21 Q. Yes, yes.

22 A. He lives in the same village in his own house.

23 Q. Thank you. That's what you told us, but where is his house in

24 relation to your house? Could you explain that.

25 A. I did say that he lives far from my house, yes.

Page 3479

1 Q. And could you explain to us what you mean when you say that it is

2 far away from your house? Could you be more specific.

3 A. I did not measure the distance. He lives on the road that links

4 my place to the main road, and that's where he lives. I have to go on

5 that road in order to get to the main road.

6 Q. Thank you. This is when you go in one direction, and if you go

7 in the opposite direction from his house, where does that road lead to?

8 A. There is only one road. It doesn't go anywhere else. This road

9 passes by Agim's house and there is no other road.

10 Q. So if I understand you correctly, it leads to the main

11 Prizren-Djakovica road?

12 A. Yes.

13 Q. And in the opposite direction, so if you're not going towards

14 Agim's house, so if you go to the left or uphill, wherever this road

15 leads to, where does it end?

16 A. It links with Krusha, so that's where it ends, in Krusha.

17 Q. Thank you. Mr. Salihi, in paragraph 2 of your statement you say:

18 "Up until March this year, my family and myself were able to live

19 relatively normally in light of the overall situation in Kosovo."

20 Could you tell us what the situation was, and what do you mean

21 when you say that you were able to live relatively normally?

22 A. Well, up until the time when what I described happened, we lived

23 normally.

24 Q. Thank you. May I conclude that up until the war you lived a

25 normal life?

Page 3480

1 A. Yes, normal life. We did have problems, a lot of problems

2 earlier, but not the kind of problems we had then.

3 Q. Thank you. Further on in the same paragraph you say:

4 "In actual fact, because there were no Serbs in the area where

5 our village is, the problems that occurred in Kosovo for the most part

6 did not affect our lives."

7 Could you explain this to me. What does that mean, what you

8 said?

9 A. Yes, I can explain. There were no Serbs living in Celine at any

10 time.

11 Q. All right. So why were there no problems then, or rather, why

12 are there problems when there are Serbs there, do you know?

13 A. No, I did not say that. The problems happened on the 25th, after

14 they came.

15 Q. I would like us to move on faster, but again I have to read part

16 of your statement to you. In paragraph 2 you said:

17 "In fact, as there were no Serbs living in our village area, our

18 lives were more or less untouched by the troubles going on in Kosovo."

19 Could you explain that to me? Does that mean there are problems

20 if there are Serbs there; and if there are no Serbs there, there are no

21 problems?

22 A. No. Even those places where Serbs lived, they did not have any

23 problems really, before.

24 Q. So can we conclude then that this part of your statement was

25 misinterpreted?

Page 3481

1 A. It has not been understood correctly --

2 THE INTERPRETER: Correction:

3 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Why has it not been understood?

4 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation]

5 Q. You told me that there were no problems with the Serbs, without

6 the Serbs, and that this was wrongly written up in your statement, what I

7 read out to you, that that's not what you said, that those who compiled

8 the statement - because you did not compile it - compiled it the wrong

9 way?

10 A. Listen, they did not make a mistake. In Celine there were no

11 Serbs living there, and we did not have any problems. And each village,

12 whether they had problems or not, they know about their own problems. I

13 don't know about everything that happened in Kosova. I did not say

14 anything about the rest of the country.

15 Q. You said because there are no Serbs that the problems that were

16 occurring in Kosovo for the most part did not affect your life. That is

17 what you said. Now I'm asking you: What were the problems that existed

18 in places where there were Serbs, those that affected lives in Kosovo?

19 A. I don't know why you're delving into these things. I don't

20 understand.

21 Q. Thank you. I'm just reading your own statement out. I'm not

22 doing anything else. Since you cannot explain this to me, let us move

23 on.

24 A. I cannot respond here about events in other villages. I am here

25 to describe the events in my village. I am here to testify about them.

Page 3482

1 I cannot testify about things that happened in other villages in Kosova.

2 Q. Is it correct that you mentioned problems to those who you

3 talked, that you mentioned problems that happened in Kosovo and that did

4 not affect you and your life because there were no Serbs there. Is that

5 what you said or is that not what you said?

6 A. What I said is there were no Serbs in my village and there were

7 no problems. This is what I said.

8 Q. Thank you. How did you find out that the war had started?

9 A. Well, the war started on the 25th of March - I will never forget

10 that - when we woke up in the morning we were surrounded on all sides.

11 Police and army forces had surrounded Celine, and then everything that I

12 described earlier happened. They started burning, massacring. The

13 police did all that, not the army. I want to emphasize that.

14 Q. Thank you. Please go ahead and say whatever else you have to

15 say, but I would kindly ask you to answer my questions so that we would

16 keep this cross-examination as short as possible.

17 So my question was: How was it that you found out that the war

18 had started, if you had found out at all that is?

19 A. I don't know about generally. I know about the things you asked

20 me about in my village.

21 Q. Thank you. Tell me, you still remember some dates from that

22 period to this day; am I not right?

23 A. What dates?

24 Q. March 1999, for example.

25 A. Yes, that one, yes.

Page 3483

1 Q. I'm asking you right now what was it that made you remember some

2 particular dates, how come you remembered them?

3 A. I remember those dates because we suffered all the evils

4 possible, the whole Kosovan population.

5 Q. Thank you. You said to me a few moments ago that you woke up in

6 the morning. What time was it when you got up?

7 A. Listen, I did not look at my watch; however, I have to say here,

8 as I said the other times I was here, I did not look at my watch, I don't

9 know what the exact time was. It was in the morning.

10 Q. Thank you. At that time did you wear a wrist-watch?

11 A. No, I did not keep a watch.

12 Q. Thank you. I have to ask you about the time because that is

13 interesting. There are many exact hours that are referred to in your

14 statement, 8.00, 9.00, 10.00 in the evening, so that's why I'm asking

15 you. Please don't hold it against me. Now that you've said this, I'm

16 not going to ask you about any particular point in time. So what you had

17 said was that it was the morning. So may I conclude that it had dawned?

18 A. I said whether it was 5.00 or 6.00 or 7.00 in the morning I don't

19 know, I did not look at the clock or watch.

20 Q. Thank you. You didn't look at your watch or clock, but was it

21 daylight when you got up?

22 A. Yes, it was daylight when we woke up.

23 Q. Thank you. Where is your room in the house that you live in?

24 A. How can I describe it to you? I don't know.

25 Q. All right, let's try to deal with this some other way. I'll put

Page 3484

1 questions and you give me answers. Does -- do you live in a one-storey

2 house, is there just a ground floor?

3 A. My house is G-shaped.

4 Q. Thank you. Since there are several houses there, is your house

5 the one that's the closest to the road or what is its position in

6 relation to the other houses?

7 A. Close to the road.

8 Q. Thank you. Did you leave the house when you woke up, on the

9 25th of March as you said?

10 A. I told my children to leave, and I stayed at home myself.

11 Q. Please let's do this slowly. You said that you had woken up,

12 that it was day-time. I'm asking you whether you left your house or

13 whether you just stayed there in your house.

14 A. I was in the yard.

15 Q. Thank you. As you say in your statement, you saw the army

16 surrounding the area of the village?

17 A. Yes. I went to my brother's house, the one that was killed. His

18 father is a little bit further up. And from the yard I could see the

19 army. Above the mosque they also had tanks. I also described this in my

20 statement. And they started shelling and shooting. They did not cause

21 any damage to the population, but later the police came in groups, they

22 burned the houses, they killed people, and they looted. The army did not

23 cause any damage to the village; the police forces did, and this is why

24 I'm here, to testify, to describe the things that really happened and

25 nothing else.

Page 3485

1 Q. Thank you, Mr. Salihi. Please give me short answers and only to

2 the questions that I'm putting to you. What you talked about just now

3 was very extensive, but I didn't really ask you about anything about any

4 of this. Let me just ask you another thing before the technical break.

5 Why did you go up there to your brother's house?

6 A. I went to my brother's house to see what was going on in the

7 village. That's why I went there. I just went to another house in my

8 village. That is all.

9 Q. Thank you. And how was it that you knew that something was going

10 on in the village?

11 A. But we were surrounded. There was shelling, and we could hear

12 shots, so we knew that something was going on. We saw them with our own

13 eyes. I'm not lying here.

14 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Thank you, Your Honours. I think

15 it is time for the technical break now.

16 JUDGE PARKER: Yes, Mr. Djurdjic.

17 We must have a break now, and we will resume in half an hour, at

18 1.00.

19 There is a consternation that this may be the equivalent of the

20 lunch break. We will resume at 1.15.

21 --- Luncheon recess taken at 12.31 p.m.

22 --- On resuming at 1.20 p.m.

23 JUDGE PARKER: Yes, Mr. Djurdjic.

24 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Thank you, Your Honour.

25 Q. Mr. Salihi, you told us a little while ago that you left your

Page 3486

1 home in the morning and that you went to your brother's house. Could you

2 tell me, what were you wearing when you left the house?

3 A. Normal clothes, as I am wearing now.

4 Q. Thank you. After you left the house in the morning and until you

5 left your family property, did you go back to your house at any point in

6 time?

7 A. We were staying together. Our houses are one after the other,

8 next to each other. My brothers have a house just like I do.

9 Q. Thank you. What did you intend to do? What would you have done

10 had the events that unfolded not unfolded?

11 A. I would have gone and worked on the field.

12 Q. Thank you. And how were you dressed?

13 A. Well, I was not wearing a suit probably, but normal clothes.

14 Q. Thank you. When you saw there, further up from the village by

15 the mosque, when you saw those forces, what did you do?

16 A. Nothing. We just observed what they were doing. What else could

17 we do?

18 Q. Thank you. In addition to what you explained to us that you saw,

19 did you see the forces anywhere else?

20 A. The whole village was surrounded by Serb forces, army and police.

21 Q. Thank you. How do you know that?

22 A. We could see that. We experienced that.

23 Q. Could you tell me what is it that you went through?

24 A. Well, we were just staying there when they started shelling,

25 killing people, burning houses, until the moment when they came up to --

Page 3487

1 very close to my house when they killed eight people. I saw everything.

2 I saw the fire and the killing.

3 Q. Thank you. You've told us this several times and then you repeat

4 it yet again. My question was: How did you know that the village was

5 surrounded on all sides?

6 A. You could see that. The people could see that. We knew, all of

7 us, that we were surrounded; it was obvious.

8 Q. Thank you. Well, I don't know what the others saw, but tell me

9 what did you see? You say that you only saw something there above the

10 mosque.

11 A. Yes, yes, I saw them and I told you about the tanks over the part

12 where the mosque was. There were army forces there and police forces.

13 Q. Thank you. Is this the only thing that you saw?

14 A. No. Everybody could see that we were surrounded.

15 Q. Thank you. Mr. Salihi, do you know what the word "method" means?

16 A. No, I don't know what "method" is.

17 Q. Thank you. Could you tell me what does Serb land forces mean?

18 What do you mean by that?

19 A. Yes, I can say that the land forces came in and they caused

20 damage to the population. They were infantry. They came on foot. They

21 did all those evil things to us.

22 Q. Thank you. Did you do your military service?

23 A. Yes.

24 Q. Do you know what your military specialty was?

25 A. I was infantry. I was issued a weapon. I had a rifle. I didn't

Page 3488

1 have any education, but I did know the military rules in the army.

2 Q. Thank you. Yes, just tell me one more thing, do you mean

3 "infantry" when you say "ground forces"?

4 A. Yes, but for the police infantry, not the army.

5 Q. Thank you. You said to us today, I think it was on page 7 of the

6 transcript, line 6, that you saw the infantry and the police entering the

7 village. So I would be interested in what the difference is between the

8 police and the infantry?

9 A. Listen, the army entered the village. They saw that the

10 civilians had nowhere to go. They were running in panic. Children were

11 crying. So they don't harm anyone in the village. Then the infantry of

12 the police forces entered the village. They went to houses, set them on

13 fire, looted the houses, killed people. They did the most evil things to

14 us.

15 Q. Thank you. Am I right if I say that the army shelled the village

16 on several occasions?

17 A. They did shell, but they didn't cause any harm to the civilian

18 population. They were aware that the civilians had nowhere to go.

19 Q. Thank you. And where were you when the army shelled the village?

20 A. In my house, in the courtyard. As all the others, I was

21 observing what was going on.

22 Q. Thank you. As far as I understood things, your yard is on flat

23 land?

24 A. Yes, but it's a little bit on an elevation. There are trees

25 there, but we could observe the movements in the village from there very

Page 3489

1 well.

2 Q. Thank you. Where were these shells falling, tell me?

3 A. On the houses.

4 Q. Thank you. From the place where you were in the yard, how far

5 away could you see?

6 A. I don't know how far away I could see, but the most important

7 thing is that I could see everything that was going on.

8 Q. Thank you. But your village is big. You cannot see all of it.

9 It's bigger than that. Am I right?

10 A. But I was on such a vantage point that I could see everything,

11 where people were going to. It is a big village, as you said, it has

12 about 200 houses, but I could see everything.

13 Q. Thank you. Am I right if I say that there was shooting in the

14 village?

15 A. From where? Or by whom?

16 Q. That there was shooting in the village. That's what I'm asking

17 you about. You said there was shooting in the village, so was there? Is

18 that correct?

19 A. Yes, the police was shooting.

20 Q. Thank you. And on the outskirts of the village you saw that it

21 was only the police who were shooting; right?

22 A. Listen, as I said in the beginning, it was the army that entered

23 the village. They saw that the population was leaving in panic, and then

24 the infantry and the police came in the village, inside the village.

25 They looted the houses, they set the houses on fire, and killed those

Page 3490

1 that they found in the houses.

2 Q. Thank you. Tell me, from the place where you were standing to

3 the outskirts of the village, what is the distance as the crow flies?

4 A. I don't know the distance. I didn't measure it, but I could see

5 very well from there.

6 Q. And you could see houses that were on the outskirts of the

7 village?

8 A. I could see them.

9 Q. Did these houses have walls around their yards?

10 A. Yes, some had, some didn't. But even if all of them had walls

11 you could see very well which houses they entered and which houses they

12 set on fire.

13 Q. Thank you. And could one see whether there was shooting coming

14 from that -- from those houses?

15 A. Yes.

16 Q. Thank you. Tell me, how do you know that it was the police who

17 were wearing black uniforms?

18 A. We call it blue. And they had those kind of colour on their

19 uniforms, the police.

20 Q. Mr. Salihi, in all your statements so far you've said the

21 uniforms were black. How come you're now saying black is something you

22 call blue?

23 A. They worked in groups, different groups changed. They killed so

24 many people. I could have been one of those killed too. They were

25 different groups of them.

Page 3491

1 Q. In paragraph 4 of your statement it says:

2 "The Serb forces that had entered the village were wearing black

3 uniforms, although I was too far away from them to see the insignia on

4 their uniforms."

5 A. They looked black from that distance.

6 Q. Not to spend too much time on this, in the Milutinovic trial you

7 said that you saw such black uniforms before the war too.

8 A. Before the war it's impossible for me to have seen them before

9 the war. I did see them on that day; and, as I said, every 20 metres

10 there was a different group and all these different groups took turns.

11 Q. Thank you. We'll have to get back to this later then. Not to

12 waste time now, could you please tell me where was it that you saw these

13 policemen? From what direction were they coming? At what location were

14 they?

15 A. I will repeat it again. The village was surrounded by them.

16 They know best from what direction they were coming and where they were.

17 The whole village was surrounded by policemen. They could enter the

18 village from any side they wished.

19 Q. Mr. Salihi, I do apologise but you have been testifying about

20 them entering the village. I'm just asking you where they had come from,

21 from what direction. I'm just asking you to tell me what you had seen,

22 not what others knew. I'm asking you about what your own immediate

23 observations were. If you saw them, then tell me what was it that you

24 saw. You're not talking about the police only. You are talking about

25 combat armoured vehicles and tanks and so on and so forth. So when was

Page 3492

1 it that you first saw these policemen?

2 A. When they [as interpreted] woke up, we saw that the village was

3 surrounded by policemen and by the army. Then they entered the village

4 from every side, from all the sides. They could do whatever they wanted.

5 When we woke up, we were surrounded, as I already explained.

6 The army did shoot, but they did not cause any harm to the

7 population because they could see that the population was running in

8 panic. And then the police entered and they looted the house and

9 committed all sorts of crimes. This is what I can tell you.

10 Q. Thank you. Again you are not answering my question. You are

11 speaking in general terms about the police surrounding the village and

12 that other things happened afterwards. What does this word mean in your

13 vocabulary, "surrounded"?

14 A. Surrounded by the police and the army. This is what I said, and

15 I'm repeating again that the army did not cause any harm or damage.

16 Q. All right. Let us leave the army aside. As for what you've said

17 to us until now, you said that you just saw something above the mosque;

18 is that correct?

19 A. Yes.

20 Q. Thank you. What colour were the tanks that you saw?

21 A. The tanks were of the army. They were on tracks. They had the

22 colour of the grass, as we say.

23 Q. Thank you. What about armoured vehicles?

24 A. I didn't see the armoured vehicles, where they left them.

25 Q. Thank you. Am I right if I say that you were not an eye-witness

Page 3493

1 to the burning of the mosque and school?

2 A. Yes as far as the school is concerned, and no as far as the

3 mosque is concerned.

4 Q. Thank you. How far away were you from the school?

5 A. I was far, but you could see very well, they entered the school,

6 they set it on fire, and then they went to the houses and did whatever

7 they wanted to do with them.

8 Q. Thank you. Do you know how the school was torched, did you see

9 that?

10 A. I don't know what they used to torch the school, but I did see

11 the flames.

12 Q. Thank you. Did you hear anything?

13 A. There was constant noise. They were using their weapons, they

14 entered the houses freely.

15 Q. Thank you. How did you establish how many houses were burned?

16 A. They torched many, many houses. When we returned from Albania,

17 we realised that the whole village was turned into ashes. All of it was

18 burned and looted.

19 Q. Thank you. Tell me, where were you when you noticed that people

20 were leaving the village?

21 A. I think I already told you. I was in the courtyard of my

22 brother. We were sitting there, and we could see that the people were

23 fleeing from their houses and looking for shelter for their families.

24 Q. Will you tell me from what houses these people were fleeing, from

25 which parts of the village?

Page 3494

1 A. The whole village, everybody was trying to leave. Everybody was

2 looking for shelter for his own family. They were trying to withdraw

3 them from the houses.

4 Q. So what did they do? Where did they go?

5 A. They left the village and then they gathered, as I already

6 mentioned, in the Mount of Pisjak.

7 Q. Thank you. Can you see Mount Pisjak from your yard?

8 A. No.

9 Q. As you stood in your yard, how could you know that they were

10 fleeing towards that mountain?

11 A. At around 3.30 in the afternoon, after they killed eight members

12 of my family and 14 members of the Zeqiri family, when it became dark I

13 went to Pisjak to find my family. I found them at around 10.00 p.m., and

14 my family and I joined the rest of the people who were gathered there.

15 Q. Thank you. You came to this place where your family was, and it

16 was only then when you established where they were. You did not know

17 when you stood in your yard where they were; am I right?

18 A. No, I could only see that they were leaving the houses.

19 Q. Thank you. Previously was there some kind of an agreement

20 reached, say with the neighbours and everybody else, where you were

21 supposed to go?

22 A. Nobody knew in advance where they were going to. They left

23 because they had to.

24 Q. Thank you. Sir, in the Milutinovic case on page 4219, that's the

25 transcript page, in response to the question put by

Page 3495

1 His Honour Judge Bonomy, you said that before the war you saw policemen.

2 And then you were asked whether you could remember what kind of uniform

3 they wore, and you said that ten of them had black uniforms. That's what

4 we discussed a few moments ago. You said at line 10 that they had black

5 uniforms.

6 A. Yes, but they changed. They were wearing all sorts of uniforms.

7 They wore whatever they wanted.

8 Q. Thank you. I don't understand what this means, that they were

9 changing their clothes all the time.

10 A. As I said, they could do whatever they wanted.

11 Q. Thank you. In paragraph 5 you said that the members of your

12 family left the farm that morning at about 5.30 to hide in the nearby

13 forests. We've explained the bit about the forests. Tell me, why didn't

14 you go with them?

15 A. I didn't go because I asked my brothers to leave all together,

16 but they said no. So I decided to stay there. It was my own house I was

17 staying in after all.

18 Q. Thank you. But you were left there and your brother Bajram and

19 Faik, and you say that with Faik there was also his four-member or

20 five-member family.

21 A. Yes.

22 Q. Why didn't you all leave?

23 A. I will tell you now. Had we known that what happened would

24 happen, we would have left too.

25 Q. Thank you. Did you stay to defend your farm?

Page 3496

1 A. Well, I thought that they would do no harm; however, they did us

2 harm. They did these evil things to us, and here we are.

3 Q. Thank you. Did you stay on to defend your farm?

4 A. If I could, I would have defended my family members, not the

5 house, not my property.

6 Q. Thank you. We'll get to that too. But could you explain this to

7 me now, you said that Miftar Zeqiri was your next-door neighbour. Why

8 did he come to you, to your farm, with his 14 family members?

9 A. The yards are adjacent to each other. For us it was like one

10 same house, you know, the whole family gathered there, and we stayed

11 there.

12 Q. Thank you. What time was it when Zeqiri came to you together

13 with his family?

14 A. It was in the morning when the children woke up. I didn't look

15 at a watch.

16 Q. Thank you. But most of your family had already left your family

17 farm, and you also say that everybody else from the village had left for

18 the most part. But then you said that Zeqiri came to you.

19 A. We live next door. He is my first-door neighbour, and we spent

20 time together.

21 Q. Thank you. From the moment they came to your yard, where were

22 you actually, you and Zeqiri and the members of your family?

23 A. As I already said, they were together there. My eldest brother

24 stood up, Bajram stood up. They -- there was a house there which was not

25 yet finished, and the police shot at him and killed him. When he was

Page 3497

1 killed, I left.

2 The infantry came later on, and they massacred everybody, the

3 children, everybody who was there. A 6-month-old baby was massacred

4 there.

5 Q. Thank you. But you're not answering my question. Please listen

6 to me carefully. This is my question: When the Zeqiri family came,

7 where were you, and where were they? That was my question. Just tell me

8 where were you. And we are going to get to this thing that you've been

9 telling me all along.

10 A. I did say where I was. I was there. I can't remember how many

11 times I told you.

12 Q. Mr. Salihi, you have six houses, a big yard. You also told us

13 what the area of your family farm was. I am asking you: Where were you,

14 you and the other 14 members of your family and Zeqiri, where were you?

15 At 3.00 in the afternoon, I'm not asking you that, you didn't have a

16 watch or a clock, so I'm not asking you that, but where were you?

17 A. I think I told you that I was together with them. I don't know

18 what else to tell you.

19 Q. Well, you can tell me, I was in a house. And then I ask you,

20 Which house? Or you can tell me, I was standing at this particular place

21 in the yard. But you did not mention the house at all from the morning

22 hours until now. So that's why I'm asking you: Where were you actually?

23 A. I was in my brother's yard. We were all there. The Zeqiri

24 family was there as well. I don't know how else to describe it to you.

25 Q. Thank you. So may I conclude that you were outside the house

Page 3498

1 from the morning onwards, you were in the yard?

2 A. Yes, I was outside.

3 Q. Thank you. Thank you. Where was it that you first saw the Serb

4 police when they reached your yard?

5 A. We were there when we saw them, the police.

6 Q. Where were the police when you first saw them?

7 A. They came and entered the village from the school, and they came

8 down towards where we were.

9 Q. Where did you see them?

10 A. We could see them coming.

11 Q. Did they walk along the street?

12 A. There was no road, but you could see them entering the houses and

13 coming out of the houses everywhere.

14 Q. I'm asking you quite specifically about your family compound.

15 When was it that they got in? Please listen to me carefully.

16 A. You mean my family?

17 Q. I mean the moment when you started talking about the police

18 coming into your family compound, where did you see the police for the

19 first time? Where were they? Did you see them at all before they

20 entered?

21 A. I saw them before they entered the yard.

22 Q. And after that, when did you see them for the first time?

23 A. I think I told you the direction they were coming from. I could

24 see them entering houses, coming out of the houses. This is the

25 hundredth time I'm telling you.

Page 3499

1 Q. But you keep repeating the same thing, and you're not answering

2 my question and that's our problem. As far as I was able to understand,

3 in front of your family compound there is only one road, and it leads to

4 Agim Jemini's house and towards Velika Krusa going in the opposite

5 direction. And the school is further up from you, several kilometres, I

6 don't know what you said. And now I'm talking about the police in front

7 of your house, where did you see them, how did you see them, and you keep

8 telling us that you saw them at the school. But let us go back. What is

9 an assault rifle to your mind?

10 A. May I speak, please? May I respond to this gentleman? I don't

11 think he's understanding me. Or maybe he doesn't want to understand me.

12 Can I speak, please?

13 JUDGE PARKER: Please do.

14 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] The police did not climb the road

15 as you are saying, but they went from house to house and they set them on

16 fire. They killed people in their own houses. They did not kill people

17 on the street. And they did not go towards Agim's house or whoever

18 you're mentioning. I did not see them go there. They went from house to

19 house, and they did whatever they wanted there. And this is what I

20 described to you.

21 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation]

22 Q. Thank you. And that's what you described to us, but now we're

23 coming to the point in time when they reached your house. And I don't

24 have any bad intentions here; I just want you to explain some things to

25 us. When did you see them for the first time? When they reached your

Page 3500

1 house, where were they?

2 A. I told you earlier, but I'll try to explain. There was a house

3 close to Zeqiris' house which had not been finished yet, the

4 construction. The police was there. We did not see them. And it's from

5 there that they shot my brother who stood up. The bullet caught him, and

6 he was killed instantly. And then I left the house. There was a group

7 of five that I saw with my own eyes. The infantry came to where my

8 family was and the Zeqiri family was, and they massacred them.

9 Q. Thank you. Can you tell me, what do you mean when you say an

10 assault rifle?

11 A. I don't know because I was not together with them to see what

12 kinds of weapons they were carrying. We were trying to go and hide.

13 They knew what kinds of weapons they had.

14 Q. Thank you. I asked you this because in paragraph 5 in the

15 penultimate sentence there is mention of assault rifles, and I wanted you

16 to explain what it means. So could you please tell me, the police

17 officers that entered your farm, what kind of uniforms were they wearing?

18 A. They were in different groups. They were wearing blue uniforms.

19 They had red and some of them white ribbons. I don't know what else to

20 tell you because I was not staying with them to be able to describe them

21 in detail. I'm only telling you what I could see.

22 Q. Thank you. In paragraph 6 you say:

23 "Suddenly three bursts of automatic gun-fire were fired at our

24 farm. I saw Bajram hit in the abdominal area and killed instantly."

25 Could you please tell me where your brother Bajram was at this

Page 3501

1 time that you describe in paragraph 6.

2 A. Yes. There were only 5 metres between us. I was there, in the

3 yard, where he was killed.

4 Q. And where was he?

5 A. I think I told you, he was there near me.

6 Q. Thank you. Does that mean that he was in the yard?

7 A. In the yard, in Faik's yard, the family was there, Zeqiri's

8 family was there. We were all together there.

9 Q. Well, did you see the person or persons that actually opened

10 fire?

11 A. After Bajram was killed, I told you that I left and I could see

12 them coming down. The infantry then went in. I can't imagine how they

13 could do those things to the people, even the little children. How could

14 they do all those things to the Kosovar people? The whole world was

15 distressed.

16 Q. Mr. Salihi, my question is this: At the time when you were in

17 the yard, did you see where the gun-fire came from and did you see who

18 opened fire? And now you're telling me what happened afterwards.

19 A. If I'm not mistaken, I did tell you that they came out of that

20 house. As I said Miftar Zeqiri had this house, that the construction of

21 which had not finished yet. They left the house where they shot from and

22 came to the yard where my brother was there with his children and the

23 Zeqiri family.

24 Q. Could you tell us, how far is it from the gate of your family

25 farm, to the Zeqiri -- to the gate on the Zeqiri farm?

Page 3502

1 A. There is a fence that divides us and we're next-door neighbours.

2 There's only a fence between us.

3 Q. Yes, and this is why I'm asking you, because there was this

4 fence, how far was it from the gate on your family farm to the gate on

5 the Zeqiri farm?

6 A. My brother's house, where we had gone to at that time, is next to

7 Miftar Zeqiri's house, so they're next-door neighbours and that's why

8 they came all together to stay where we were.

9 Q. Thank you. But again you didn't tell me how far is it from the

10 gate to your family farm to the gate of the Zeqiri farm.

11 A. They're not very far from each other. There is just a fence

12 between us, as I said; and because they're not very far, they came and

13 joined us in the yard.

14 Q. Thank you. But it was much earlier than the events when there

15 was this gun-fire when your brother was hit; am I right?

16 A. 3.30 in the afternoon.

17 Q. Yes. And did I understand it right that at that time the Zeqiris

18 were in your yard?

19 A. But the yards are next to each other.

20 Q. Sir, a little while ago you told us that the Zeqiris had come to

21 seek shelter at your place and that they were in your yard. Were they in

22 your yard when your brother was hit?

23 A. I think I told you that they're next to each other. Ours is

24 here, theirs is there, and there is where they were staying.

25 Q. There is a misunderstanding it seems. This is a question, a yes

Page 3503

1 or no question. Were the Zeqiris in your yard at the time when your

2 brother was hit?

3 A. Between the two, there is a fence and they were on both sides.

4 On that border they were all together, they had gathered there.

5 Q. Are you trying to tell me that some members of the Zeqiri family

6 were with you in the yard?

7 A. No, I did not say that. Both families were there. The children

8 were there together.

9 Q. Where is "there"? Could you please tell me that.

10 A. In my brother's yard which borders Zeqiris' house and yard.

11 Q. Thank you. So they were in your yard. Now I want to know how

12 far were your brother and your other family members from you and your

13 brother Bajram when he was hit?

14 A. They were all in one group there.

15 Q. Thank you. How far away from them were you?

16 A. I think I told you, about 5 metres away from him, maybe not even

17 that.

18 Q. Thank you. And why did you flee to Miftar Zeqiri's farm after

19 the shooting, as you say?

20 A. I did not say that. If I had gone to Zeqiri's house, I would

21 have died as well.

22 Q. Well, I will have to read from paragraph 6 of your statement.

23 "I saw Bajram hit in the abdominal area and killed instantly.

24 Faik and his family remained with the Zeqiri family in our compound,

25 while I ran next door into the Zeqiri compound."

Page 3504

1 A. That's a mistake.

2 Q. Thank you. And then it goes on to say:

3 "Where I found the 3-foot hole to hide in (about 90

4 centimetres)" --

5 A. Yes, I did not measure it, but it was of that kind of depth.

6 Q. Very well, but where is this hole where you hid?

7 A. It was above the houses.

8 Q. Whose?

9 A. Our houses, all of them, and our neighbour's house,

10 Miftar Zeqiri's house.

11 Q. So you were outside of the family compound, both your family

12 compounds, yours and Zeqiri's, you were in that group?

13 A. Yes, yes. I think I told you that when my brother was killed, I

14 left, I fled. Because they were coming towards us, so I left the place I

15 was together with them. And then they entered, and they did what I

16 already told you several times.

17 Q. Thank you. And where did you flee? That's what I want to know.

18 A. I stayed in that hole until it became dark, and I left then when

19 it became dark to go to find my family in the mountain. I found them

20 there.

21 Q. Mr. Salihi, you are a farmer, yet you went to big towns to sell

22 your produce there, so you understand me very well. You know what I mean

23 when I'm asking you this. My question is: Where is the hole where you

24 hid? Do you understand the question?

25 A. Where I hid?

Page 3505

1 Q. Where is the hole where you hid when your brother was shot?

2 A. I told you that I fled. There is the side of the mountain there,

3 of the hill, beyond our houses, the whole neighbourhood, and that is

4 where I hid, in a hole.

5 Q. But could you please explain to us, we don't know that, where are

6 the slopes beyond your houses where you went?

7 A. I don't know, why you are asking me in such detail where we hid

8 and so on. People were killed, and you're not asking about them. You're

9 asking where we hid and so on.

10 Q. Thank you. Did you have any weapons?

11 A. No. Had I had a weapon, I might have been able to save someone.

12 Q. And did the Zeqiris have weapons?

13 A. I don't know. I can only tell you things about myself. I know

14 things about myself and what I did. That's why I'm here, to respond to

15 you about those things.

16 THE INTERPRETER: Interpreter's note: Could the counsel please

17 repeat the question.

18 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I don't know how many times I have

19 to tell you. Had we had a gun, we wouldn't have stayed at home.

20 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation]

21 Q. My question - it appears that I need to repeat it - was whether

22 Faik had any weapons?

23 A. I don't know that he had any weapons.

24 Q. Thank you. Could you tell me, do you speak Serbian and did you

25 speak Serbian at the time?

Page 3506

1 A. I can understand it.

2 Q. In paragraph 6 you say that you heard someone shout:

3 "Shoot, there are terrorists here."

4 Is that correct?

5 A. Yes, this I heard very well. Everybody was terrorist to them,

6 children, the whole of Kosova.

7 Q. And where were there terrorists?

8 A. [Previous translation continues]...

9 Q. Very well. And who are terrorists to your mind?

10 A. [Previous translation continues]... we heard this term. I don't

11 know.

12 Q. Thank you. You say that at one point in the evening you came to

13 the place where your family was, and in paragraph 7 you say that the next

14 day a group of 40 policemen arrived in the forest. Did you see the

15 police officers?

16 A. Are you referring to the 28th of March, when we had to leave the

17 mountain?

18 Q. Well, I mean the first morning after you escaped from the hole

19 and went into the woods, so that's the next morning. According to your

20 calculation, it should be --

21 JUDGE PARKER: I'm sorry, I must interrupt you. What the witness

22 says that he remained there for the next three days, and then the next

23 morning after that --

24 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] That's correct. That's correct.

25 I do apologise. You are correct. That's the morning that I mean. So

Page 3507

1 two -- after two or three days spent in the woods.

2 Q. So that morning when the policemen came, that's the morning that

3 I'm referring to.

4 A. You see that we can easily make mistakes here. Which date are

5 you referring to now?

6 JUDGE PARKER: The 28th of March is the correct answer.

7 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] That's correct.

8 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes, when they made us leave.

9 There were so many groups, almost more policemen than civilians. Whether

10 they were 40 or more, that I really don't know.

11 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation]

12 Q. In paragraph 7 -- well, I don't want to make a mistake

13 again - you say 40 policemen arrived. And I wanted to ask you, where did

14 they come from, from what direction, if you saw them actually arrive?

15 A. They were shooting from the top of the mountain, and we saw them

16 when we were there in the meadow. We couldn't see the direction they

17 came from.

18 Q. Were you in a meadow or in a forest?

19 A. I was in the forest, but in the morning when they made us leave,

20 we gathered on a meadow.

21 Q. Tell me, is it correct that there were 40 policemen there?

22 JUDGE PARKER: The reference is over 40 policemen.

23 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] We didn't count them because we saw

24 thousands of them later on.

25 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation]

Page 3508

1 Q. Thank you. Tell me -- I'm asking you this because your statement

2 contains figures. It would never have crossed my mind to put this kind

3 of question to you otherwise. You mentioned 10.000 people here. Is that

4 your own estimate? Is it somebody else's estimate? How come this is

5 here?

6 A. There were many civilians because the whole of the population

7 stopped there. The population of my village was there. There were a lot

8 of people. Maybe there was not exactly this figure of 10.000, maybe

9 there were 8.000, maybe there were more, but there were a lot.

10 Q. Thank you. Just one more question. I would actually like to go

11 back. When we said that you had heard that someone said that there were

12 terrorists there, did you say that there was shooting that went on for 15

13 minutes? Is that correct?

14 A. I don't know now to what event or location you're referring to.

15 Q. I mean I went back to the period when those policemen had come

16 and when somebody had said:

17 "Shoot, there are terrorists here."

18 Then you say the shooting went on for 15 minutes?

19 A. This is when they killed the members of my family, my brother's

20 family. Then I heard when these infantry forces came in they were

21 shouting between them. They entered the yard, and they killed them on

22 the spot.

23 Q. Did you actually see that?

24 A. No, I only heard that, and I saw them leaving, going downwards.

25 Q. Thank you. Can you tell me whether you know what the UCK is, as

Page 3509

1 in KLA?

2 A. Listen, this was of no interest to me. I didn't bother who was

3 what. My statement is about what these forces committed over the

4 civilian population.

5 Q. Correct. But I asked you whether you could tell me what the UCK

6 is.

7 A. I cannot really answer that because I don't know anything about

8 that.

9 Q. Please don't understand this as a provocation on my part. I am

10 asking you this because in your statement in paragraph 12 it says:

11 "Since I have lived all my life in Celine, I can say that in my

12 village there were never any members of the OVK," it says in Serbian and

13 it is UCK in Albanian. So I'm asking you: Do you know what the UCK is?

14 A. I did say that there was no UCK in Celine. As to what this means

15 and what is the meaning of it, that I don't know, and that was never of

16 any interest to me.

17 Q. Before giving your statement, did you ever hear of the KLA?

18 A. Yes, I did hear of the KLA, but I was not interested in finding

19 out what it meant, who it was.

20 Q. All right. Let us accept that. How is it that you know then

21 that there were no members of the KLA in the village then?

22 A. I know that because I didn't see anyone leaving the village.

23 Q. Thank you. So if someone was in the village, he didn't have to

24 leave and didn't have to be a member of the KLA.

25 A. I didn't see them.

Page 3510

1 Q. Thank you. In paragraph 7 of your statement you say that the

2 police searched you when you were up there in the forest, when they

3 arrived; is that correct?

4 A. That is correct. When we left the forest, when they made us

5 leave, they separated the men [as interpreted] and the children from the

6 men. They made us, the men, into three groups. They asked for our

7 personal identification documents. They collected everything and then

8 they collected the money. They didn't want the Serbian dinars. They

9 wanted Deutschemarks, so whatever we had on us, we took it out, and they

10 collected. And they killed a very young man, Agim Ramadani.

11 Q. Thank you. My question was whether the police had searched you.

12 Am I right actually?

13 A. Yes.

14 Q. Did the police find something when searching you?

15 A. No.

16 Q. Thank you. Further on in your statement you say that they

17 searched you and that they ordered you to hand over 5.000 Deutschemarks.

18 A. [B/C/S interpretation] correct.

19 [Albanian interpretation]Absolutely correct. We just threw them in front

20 of us. They threatened to kill us. They had knives on them, daggers.

21 So everybody from the civilians threw on the ground whatever they had on

22 them.

23 Q. Thank you. That was after the search. Now tell me, you got

24 dressed in the morning in order to go out and work on the field and then

25 you say that you were in your yard and along with you you had

Page 3511

1 5.000 Deutschemarks; is that correct?

2 A. Listen, I want us to understand each other. We woke up in the

3 morning. We had to run for our lives. There were no conditions for us

4 to go and work on the land as we usually did.

5 Q. Thank you.

6 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Your Honours, I think that it is

7 time for the technical break.

8 JUDGE PARKER: It is, Mr. Djurdjic. I thought you said you had

9 only one more question. I misunderstood, did I?

10 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Your Honour, I shall be very

11 brief. It's not that I have too much left, but then there was that

12 question that I had forgotten and then I had to go back to that. It's

13 going to be very brief. I'm getting close to the end, I am.

14 JUDGE PARKER: Very well. We will have then the second break now

15 and resume at a quarter past 3.00.

16 --- Recess taken at 2.46 p.m.

17 [The witness stands down]

18 --- On resuming at 3.23 p.m.

19 JUDGE PARKER: I apologise that I was delayed by a few moments by

20 another matter.

21 [The witness takes the stand]

22 JUDGE PARKER: Mr. Djurdjic.

23 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Thank you.

24 Q. Mr. Salihi, am I right when I say that you were not an

25 eye-witness when your daughter handed over 6.000 German marks and when

Page 3512

1 the police took her gold necklace?

2 A. They were stopped at Krusha e Vogel. They were beaten up there,

3 and my daughter told me that they had taken away her money and the

4 necklace.

5 Q. Thank you. So you are -- so I am right that you were not an

6 eye-witness?

7 A. No, no. I didn't. My daughter described it to me.

8 Q. Thank you. Tell me, do you know Agim Ramadani?

9 A. Yes.

10 Q. Can you tell us who Agim Ramadani was?

11 A. He was a young man about 17 or 18 years old.

12 Q. Where was he from?

13 A. From Celine.

14 Q. Did he live in Celine?

15 A. He lived in his own house.

16 Q. Do you know where that house is?

17 A. Yes, I do.

18 Q. Did you personally know Agim Ramadani?

19 A. Yes.

20 Q. Were you friends with his family?

21 A. No, no. He is just a co-villager.

22 Q. Thank you. Do you know what he did?

23 A. His father is a farmer as well.

24 Q. Thank you. Can you tell me what he wore, what Agim Ramadani wore

25 when the police came up there to the forest?

Page 3513

1 A. Normal clothes as anybody else.

2 Q. Did you see him before the police came?

3 A. Yes, when we left the mountain, I saw him. We were gathered

4 together. We were made to stand on rows, and he was close to me.

5 Q. Thank you. How far away were you from him?

6 A. About 20 metres away.

7 Q. Thank you. Did I understand correctly that the police singled

8 him out and took him somewhere?

9 A. Yes, they singled him out. About 30 metres away they beat him

10 up.

11 Q. Thank you. Did you see them searching him?

12 A. Yes.

13 Q. Was something found on him when he was searched?

14 A. They did not find anything on anybody.

15 Q. Thank you. You say the police separated you into two groups, not

16 to go into the number of people involved, and you say that many trucks

17 came to transport you then; is that correct?

18 A. That's correct. Yes, we were kept near the road all day.

19 Q. Was any family member with you?

20 A. Yes, my son who was 13 years old was with me.

21 Q. Tell me, the rest of your family was in another group; right?

22 A. Well, all the women were separated from us. We didn't know where

23 they were sent to, but later on we heard that they had been at

24 Krusha e Vogel. That was the rest of my family with the women.

25 Q. Thank you. Is Arben your son's name?

Page 3514

1 A. Yes.

2 Q. Do you perhaps know what year he was born?

3 A. I don't know exactly. Now he is 20 or 21 years old, maybe 22. I

4 can't tell you exactly, sorry.

5 Q. Thank you. I'm asking you this because your statement seems to

6 show that the women and children were separated from the men?

7 A. Yes, when we were made to climb down the mountain, we were

8 separated. We didn't know where they sent the women and the children.

9 We learned that later.

10 Q. Thank you. Yet in the statement it says that Arben was 15 at the

11 time.

12 A. Maybe I did, but still I'm not sure, 14 maybe.

13 Q. Am I right when I say that in -- you saw in a newspaper article

14 in Albania that members of Faik's family and of the Zeqiri family had

15 been killed?

16 A. No. I knew about that when they were killed on the spot;

17 however, the newspapers wrote about the incident.

18 Q. In paragraph 11 of the statement you gave, you mention that you

19 were afraid that something horrible had happened to them, yet you say

20 that you saw the article in the newspaper -- well, it's different from

21 what you're saying now.

22 A. I can't read the newspaper.

23 Q. I know that, but this is what it says in your statement, not that

24 you read but that you saw -- but okay, let's move on.

25 Do you know the name Ekrem Rexha?

Page 3515

1 A. No.

2 Q. Thank you. Do you know where the Hoca river-bed is?

3 A. Hoqe e Vogel?

4 Q. Was your family there when it left the village?

5 A. My family went to Pisjak. I didn't say that they went to the

6 Hoqe river.

7 Q. That's correct. I'm asking you whether they went to the Hoca

8 river-bed.

9 A. I don't understand what you're saying. Which Hoqe? There is no

10 such thing as Hoqe. My children were sent to Krusha e Vogel, then loaded

11 on trucks, and sent over to Albania.

12 Q. I'm not talking about that, Mr. Salihi. I'm talking about the

13 time when your family left the village on the eve of the arrival of the

14 Serb forces, that they went to Hoca river or to Hocanska Reka and that

15 you went there, and that you were told by the Serb forces after the

16 fighting ended in Celine that you could go back to your village.

17 A. It is a mistake. Wherever you read that from, that's wrong.

18 Q. Thank you. But am I right when I say that the KLA members in the

19 village of Celine made third-degree fortifications along the rim of the

20 village facing Bela Crkva, and that on the 25th of March in the morning

21 they offered fierce resistance to the Serb forces?

22 A. I don't know about that. Whoever knows about that can answer the

23 question.

24 Q. Thank you. Am I right when I say that at 10.00 a.m. you left

25 Celine and went away?

Page 3516

1 A. I think I told you that I stayed at home in my brother's yard

2 until 3.30, when my brother was killed.

3 Q. Thank you.

4 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Could I please have on the screen

5 a Defence document D002-5628.

6 Q. Mr. Salihi, this is your statement of the 23rd of July, 2001, and

7 in this statement in paragraph 4 you say this:

8 "My family and myself went back to Celine three months after I

9 had left, and we went back to our house, the house had been looted, and

10 it was completely empty. I ascertained later on that eight of my family

11 members were killed in the events of the 25th of March, 1999."

12 You never mention that your house had been burnt down.

13 A. Well, if the house has been razed to the ground, what can I say,

14 that it's still standing?

15 Q. Well, certainly not, but you had to have known that on the

16 23rd of July, 2001?

17 A. The house was completely destroyed, burnt beyond burning.

18 Q. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Salihi. I have no further questions

19 for you.

20 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Thank you, Your Honours, this

21 completes my cross-examination.

22 JUDGE PARKER: Thank you, Mr. Djurdjic.

23 Now, Ms. D'Ascoli, do you have re-examination?

24 MS. D'ASCOLI: Yes, Your Honours, I do have some questions.

25 Re-examination by Ms. D'Ascoli:

Page 3524

1 additional evidence that is proposed. Is that accurate?

2 MR. BEHAR: No, I'm not sure, in fairness, what Mr. Djurdjic is

3 referring to. With respect to Mr. Jemini we did provide a supplemental

4 information sheet, but that's largely intended for disclosure purposes.

5 With respect to what the questions I'm intending to ask, I don't

6 anticipate being much over the 30 minutes prescribed, perhaps slightly

7 over in light of the fact we're now tendering these photographs, but I'm

8 not sure what additional evidence is being referred to.

9 JUDGE PARKER: Thank you.

10 [Trial Chamber confers]

11 JUDGE PARKER: The Chamber will receive the photographs, six or

12 seven, that you mention, Mr. Behar, assuming them to be relevant to the

13 subject matter when they are offered. If there is some issue affecting

14 the oral evidence that is in addition to the Rule 92 bis statement, some

15 radically different subject matter, that can be separately and

16 specifically raised in the course of the evidence.

17 If the witness could be brought in.

18 [The witness entered court]

19 JUDGE PARKER: Good afternoon. Would you please read the

20 affirmation on the card that is shown to you now.

21 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I solemnly declare that I will

22 speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

23 WITNESS: AGIM JEMINI

24 [Witness answered through interpreter]

25 JUDGE PARKER: Thank you. Please sit down.

Page 3525

1 Mr. Behar has some questions.

2 MR. BEHAR: Thank you, Your Honours.

3 Examination by Mr. Behar:

4 Q. Good afternoon. Could you please provide your full name and your

5 date of birth for the record.

6 A. Agim Jemini. I was born on the 25th of November, 1960.

7 Q. I understand that you were the mayor of Celine in Rahovec; is

8 that correct?

9 A. Yes.

10 Q. Can you tell us when you became mayor and how long you held that

11 position for?

12 A. I became a mayor in 1984, and I held that position until two

13 months ago. That would be for about 22 or 23 years.

14 Q. And can you tell us how many people lived in Celine at -- say at

15 the commencement of March 1999?

16 A. In 1999 there were about 2.000 inhabitants in Celine.

17 Q. Thank you. Mr. Jemini, do you recall providing a statement to

18 the Office of the Prosecutor on the 17th of July, 1999?

19 A. Yes.

20 Q. And I understand that you provided an addendum to that statement

21 on the 3rd of June, 2002; is that correct?

22 A. Yes.

23 Q. Have you had the opportunity to read that statement and the

24 addendum before coming to court today?

25 A. Yes.

Page 3526

1 Q. Are you satisfied that the information contained in those

2 documents is true and accurate to the best of your knowledge and belief?

3 A. Yes.

4 Q. Thank you.

5 MR. BEHAR: Your Honours, I would seek to tender that statement

6 and the addendum, that's 65 ter number 02338. I can indicate that

7 they're both together in that package.

8 JUDGE PARKER: The statement with the addendum will be received.

9 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00635, Your Honours.

10 MR. BEHAR:

11 Q. Mr. Jemini, do you recall testifying at the trial of

12 Slobodan Milosevic on the 7th of June, 2002?

13 A. Yes.

14 Q. And have you had a chance to review or listen to the transcript

15 of your testimony in that trial?

16 A. Yes.

17 Q. Does that transcript accurately reflect your evidence, and would

18 you testify to the same facts today?

19 A. Yes.

20 Q. Thank you.

21 MR. BEHAR: Your Honours, I would seek to tender

22 65 ter number 02353.

23 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

24 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00636, Your Honours.

25 MR. BEHAR:

Page 3527

1 Q. And, Mr. Jemini, do you recall testifying at the trial of

2 Mr. Milutinovic et al. on the 28th of September, 2006?

3 A. Yes.

4 Q. Have you had a chance to review the transcript of your testimony

5 in that trial?

6 A. Yes.

7 Q. And does that transcript accurately reflect your evidence, and

8 would you testify to the same facts again today?

9 A. Yes.

10 MR. BEHAR: And, Your Honours, I would then seek to tender

11 65 ter number 05012.

12 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

13 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00637, Your Honours.

14 MR. BEHAR: And, Your Honours, I would also seek to tender the

15 exhibits that were associated with Mr. Jemini's testimony; those were all

16 listed in annex B of our rule 92 bis motion. And I can go through those

17 one by one. The first is 01800.

18 JUDGE PARKER: What is that?

19 MR. BEHAR: That's -- sorry, I'm happy to go through each of

20 them. That's an enlarged photo of the destroyed Celine mosque.

21 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

22 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P --

23 JUDGE PARKER: Mr. Djurdjic.

24 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Your Honour, perhaps I concluded

25 wrongly, but at the beginning of the trial I thought we said that all

Page 3528

1 evidence must be adduced and tendered into evidence and could not be

2 admitted as part of a 92 bis or 92 ter package. Perhaps I might be

3 mistaken, but I think that that was the decision of the Trial Chamber at

4 the beginning.

5 JUDGE PARKER: It's partly correct, nearly correct. The

6 Trial Chamber, Mr. Djurdjic, said that the question of the admission

7 would be dealt with at the time the witness came to give evidence. The

8 statement of the witness and the previous testimony having been admitted

9 just now as an exhibit in this trial, that provides an evidentiary basis

10 upon which the Chamber now considers the question of the admission of the

11 exhibit.

12 And in view of the nature of this particular exhibit, it is one

13 which from that evidentiary material, the statement and the previous

14 evidence of the witness, is sufficiently dealt with and described so as

15 to justify admission. Unless there was some particular objection that

16 you made which we would have to consider. Now, that is likely to be the

17 case for many exhibits which were attached to previous statements or

18 which were given as evidence in a previous trial.

19 There will, no doubt, though, be occasions when that is not the

20 case and the Prosecution seeks to tender an exhibit which is not

21 sufficiently dealt with in the statement or the previous transcript, in

22 which event there would need to be some further oral evidence from the

23 witness to provide a foundation upon which the Prosecution's motion to

24 tender the exhibit could be considered and dealt with.

25 So I hope that helps you to understand why we waited until this

Page 3529

1 point, and we'll wait until this point with other witnesses to decide

2 whether or not the exhibit will be received in evidence.

3 Please continue, Mr. Behar.

4 THE REGISTRAR: 65 ter 01800, Your Honours, will be assigned

5 P00638.

6 JUDGE PARKER: Thank you.

7 MR. BEHAR: The next exhibit to be tendered is 02339, and that is

8 a photograph that depicts the view from the attic window of Mr. Jemini's

9 house.

10 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00639, Your Honours.

11 JUDGE PARKER: Yes, it will be received.

12 MR. BEHAR: The next exhibit is 05014, that is the same photo as

13 previously mentioned but as marked by the witness during his testimony.

14 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

15 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00640, Your Honours.

16 MR. BEHAR: The next is 02340, that's a photograph that depicts

17 the witness's house in Celine.

18 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

19 THE REGISTRAR: P00641, Your Honours.

20 MR. BEHAR: Then 05013, and that is the same photograph as

21 previously mentioned but having been marked by the witness in his

22 testimony.

23 JUDGE PARKER: It too will be received.

24 THE REGISTRAR: P00642, Your Honours.

25 MR. BEHAR: The next is 02356, that's another photograph that

Page 3530

1 depicts the view from the attic window of the witness's house.

2 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

3 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00643, Your Honours.

4 MR. BEHAR: Next is 05015, and that's the same photograph as

5 previously mentioned but as marked again by the witness during his

6 testimony.

7 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

8 THE REGISTRAR: P00644, Your Honours.

9 MR. BEHAR: And last is 05016, and that is the Kosovo Atlas 2 as

10 marked by the witness in his testimony.

11 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

12 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00645, Your Honours.

13 MR. BEHAR: I can now proceed to provide a brief summary of the

14 witness's evidence, and I can indicate that it relates chiefly to

15 paragraphs 72(a) and 77 of the indictment.

16 Mr. Jemini is the former mayor of Celine, in the Rahovec area of

17 Kosovo.

18 He describes the Serb offensive in Celine beginning on the

19 25th of March, 1999. Serb forces surrounded the village and then shelled

20 and shot at the village. Mr. Jemini hid in the roof cavity of the new

21 house he was building, along with his cousin Isuf. He saw soldiers

22 entering the town from four directions along with police and then looting

23 houses of valuables. He observed the deliberate burning of houses and of

24 the local school.

25 From the house next door, Mr. Jemini overheard the contents of

Page 3531

1 radio conversations involving two men he identified as Serb commanders.

2 The next day Mr. Jemini saw a troop carrier approach the village

3 from the main road, carrying special forces police with beards, shaved

4 heads, and red ribbons. Soon there were 200 to 300 forces in the

5 village, some with white ribbons, some with headbands, they went from

6 house to house. A group of seven or eight men entered Mr. Jemini's house

7 and removed his father, mother, uncle, uncle's son, and uncle's wife.

8 They asked his father for money and later marched everyone outside. They

9 then executed all five of them.

10 Throughout that day, Serb forces looted and burned houses using

11 flame-throwers. Mr. Jemini heard the sounds of automatic weapon fire and

12 screaming. He escaped with his cousin to Zrze, and on the way he saw a

13 large number of corpses near Bela Crkva.

14 Over a period of about 30 days, Mr. Jemini returned to Celine

15 each night, along with others, to retrieve and then bury the dead. In

16 total he helped to 78 victims. He will describe observing police driving

17 trucks along the main roads in Celine and collecting bodies.

18 That is the conclusion of the summary, Your Honours.

19 JUDGE PARKER: Thank you.

20 MR. BEHAR:

21 Q. Mr. Jemini, I am going to have a few very brief questions for you

22 about specific parts of your evidence. To begin with, in your statement

23 and in your previous testimony, after the Serb offensive against Celine

24 began on the 25th of March of 1999, you describe hiding in the roof and

25 making certain observations. And at page 3 of your statement at

Page 3532

1 paragraph 6 you describe overhearing one of the Serb force commanders

2 being told over the radio to stop the offensive on Celine. You describe

3 hearing that commander answer, Yes, we will stop.

4 My question is: After you heard that exchange, did you observe

5 any change in what was happening in Celine?

6 A. At the moment the response was given to the command at 9.00 at

7 night, the offensive was stopped; and the Serb forces took positions

8 around the village, and the offensive was stopped until the next day.

9 Q. And just to be clear, is that something that you observed

10 directly?

11 A. Yes, of course, because at that time everything stopped. The

12 shooting stopped. We couldn't hear any more shots, and there were no

13 more actions conducted by those forces. We saw that with our own eyes

14 and we could feel it.

15 Q. You described in your statement and in your testimony that the

16 next day, which was the 26th of March, a group of seven or eight men

17 entered your house and removed your father, mother, uncle, your uncle's

18 son, and your uncle's wife. Can you explain to the Court what happened

19 to them?

20 A. On the 26th of March, when the forces --

21 JUDGE PARKER: Could you pause a minute, please, Mr. Jemini.

22 Yes, Mr. Djurdjic.

23 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] I do beg your pardon. I'm not

24 receiving interpretation of the question. I did not receive any

25 interpretation.

Page 3533

1 JUDGE PARKER: Perhaps you could ask the question again, please,

2 Mr. Behar.

3 MR. BEHAR: Certainly --

4 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Your Honour, I do apologise. The

5 question was recorded in the transcript, but I did not get a translation

6 into Serbian. So the only thing I need is interpretation into Serbian.

7 My colleague doesn't have to repeat it. I mean, I see it's recorded in

8 the transcript.

9 JUDGE PARKER: Can we have the interpretation again.

10 Alternatively, no, we'll go as I suggested.

11 Would you ask the question again, Mr. Behar, then we can get the

12 question and the interpretation so there's no error.

13 MR. BEHAR: Certainly.

14 Q. Mr. Jemini, you described in your statement and in your testimony

15 that the next day, which was the 26th of March, a group of seven or eight

16 men entered your house and removed your father, your mother, your uncle,

17 your uncle's son, and your uncle's wife. Can you explain to this Court

18 what happened to them.

19 A. At that moment, these persons entered in the basement. They

20 removed my father, my uncle, and the other people from the basement,

21 brought them out into the yard. They asked for money, they asked my

22 father for money; and my father said how much money he had on him. My

23 mother reacted and said, Why are you doing this to us? Then the

24 policemen said to my mother, Don't say anything. Nobody's asking you.

25 At that time, they ordered them to hand over the money, to go to the

Page 3534

1 bedroom and take the money and give it to them. Then they marched them

2 towards the gate of the yard. Outside in the road one of the soldiers

3 shot in the air and the others shot at my family and left them there.

4 This was a tragic moment.

5 Q. And when you say, "shot at your family and left them there," I

6 know that this is difficult, but did any of those family members survive?

7 A. No.

8 Q. I'd also just like to clarify. I know that in your answer you've

9 used the terms "police" and also "soldiers." Can you explain who were

10 the men who did this? Were they military? Were they police? Were they

11 other persons?

12 A. No, these were not the soldiers of the 25th. These were

13 paramilitaries, Serb paramilitaries from other units wearing different

14 kinds of clothes with bandannas on their heads and various kinds of

15 weapons on them. They were not part of the regular army. The regular

16 army was there the day before.

17 Q. You had also mentioned police. Were there also police in that

18 group of seven or eight people that you described?

19 A. Yes, there were policemen with that unit. We call that kind of

20 unit a special unit or Arkan's unit. They were not part of the regular

21 army. They did not have the same uniform as the Serb -- regular Serb

22 army. They had blue or black and blue uniforms. They had bandannas on

23 their heads. Some of them had shaven heads and beards. These were

24 members who conducted the second part of the offensive.

25 Q. Thank you, sir. At page 5 of your statement you describe

Page 3535

1 returning to Celine after you had fled. You describe seeing Serb police

2 enter the village each day along with gypsies and burning houses and

3 stealing. And you describe entering the village at night to find people

4 who'd been massacred and to bury them. I'd like to show you some

5 photographs.

6 MR. BEHAR: Could I have 65 ter number 5246, 05246.

7 Q. Do you recognise this photograph, sir?

8 A. Yes. This photograph was taken on the 21st or the 24th when I

9 was in that village during the bombing, I was here. And you can see me

10 in the photograph. I could see the forces expelling the population from

11 Peje and Gjakova. It was about 6.00 or 7.00 in the evening.

12 During the day we could not enter the village because the police

13 and other Roma workers were there, looting the houses. So during the day

14 we stayed away from the village. We just observed the exit and entry

15 points to the village. In the evening we went and saw what had happened

16 to the people who had remained in the village. We saw the bodies of the

17 victims. There are other photographs showing the burial of these people

18 and so on --

19 Q. Thank you. Just a couple more specific questions to clarify.

20 You said the photo was taken on the 21st or the 24th. Which month was

21 that?

22 A. Not the 21st or the 24th. This was the 21st day after the 24th

23 of March when we took the photograph. As I mentioned in the statement,

24 in 21 days we buried 78 victims. We could not go to the village during

25 the day because we were scared, so we exploited whatever time at night we

Page 3536

1 could to bury the people.

2 Q. So --

3 A. My family members who were killed, they were taken to Rahovec.

4 The rest of them, we buried them in the village.

5 Q. So just so that we're clear, if you're saying 21 days after the

6 24th, which would put this in the middle of April; is that correct?

7 A. Yes, yes.

8 Q. Okay. Can you tell us who took this photograph?

9 A. There were about 15 or 16 of us in the group. One of us had the

10 task to take the photographs. He was Hamdi Fazliu. He had the task to

11 take photographs of everything we did at the time.

12 Q. And the bodies that we're seeing there, is that how they were

13 found? Were they gathered there? Can you explain the state of the

14 bodies.

15 A. The bodies of these people who were expelled were found there at

16 the place they were executed. They were in the same position as we found

17 them. They had been sitting there before the execution and then killed

18 there on the spot. Nobody saw them at the time of execution. We just

19 buried them later. There was the 21st day that we took the photograph.

20 Q. And I believe you mentioned that that's you in the background; is

21 that correct? Are you the person who's there walking along the side?

22 A. Yes, yes.

23 Q. Thank you.

24 MR. BEHAR: Your Honours, I would seek to tender that photo as an

25 exhibit.

Page 3537

1 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

2 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00646, Your Honours.

3 MR. BEHAR: Can I have 65 ter number 05248.

4 JUDGE PARKER: Yes, Mr. Djurdjic.

5 MR. DJURDJIC: [Interpretation] Your Honour, we have finished with

6 the last photograph -- well, thank you, Your Honour. I think that

7 already with the first photograph and the answer, we are going beyond the

8 rules of 92 bis. There was no mention before of such bodies and such

9 pictures and there were no statements made to that effect, by the witness

10 that is.

11 JUDGE PARKER: It's true there was no specific mention. I think

12 you're correct in that. The Chamber's not inclined to see this as part

13 of the Rule 92 bis statement of the witness but as evidence which is

14 being led from the witness, he being here in court primarily so that you

15 may cross-examine. But he being here, opportunity is taken to increase

16 the scope of his evidence.

17 Now, the Chamber is aware that that is a departure from normal

18 procedure, and you're quite correct in that observation. And it is,

19 therefore, a matter which the Chamber will keep under observation. It is

20 not a practice which the Chamber will readily agree to, but given the

21 nature of certain evidence, it would be in the interests of justice the

22 Chamber have that evidence rather than remain ignorant of it. And in

23 those circumstances, the Chamber is prepared to receive such evidence and

24 this appears to be such a case.

25 But the basic concern you raise is one well appreciated by the

Page 3538

1 Chamber and we will keep the matter under observation. And you, of

2 course, if you feel that there is some significant departure that is of

3 great concern to your particular case, should raise the matter

4 specifically as we proceed.

5 Yes, Mr. Behar.

6 MR. BEHAR: Thank you, Your Honour. And I -- just to briefly

7 respond to one point that my friend made, I can indicate that this -- the

8 finding of bodies that had been massacred - to use the witness's

9 word - and the burying of 78 people is in his statement at page 5 in the

10 fifth paragraph.

11 JUDGE PARKER: I don't think there was any suggestion to the

12 contrary by your learned friend. He was saying this specific evidence,

13 though, is something that was quite beyond the 92 bis statement.

14 MR. BEHAR: Thank you.

15 JUDGE PARKER: Please carry on.

16 MR. BEHAR:

17 Q. Sir, there's a new photograph up on the screen. Can you explain

18 to us -- and I'm not sure, is this a close-up of the same bodies we were

19 seeing before or is this a different -- depicting something else?

20 A. This is a close-up of part of the bodies because of the baby

21 which is characteristic for this photograph. So it's a different

22 photograph depicting a small girl that was executed.

23 Q. And do you know who that girl is? Is that someone that you were

24 familiar with?

25 A. Yes, her name is Albana Zeqiri. Her name is on the list of

Page 3539

1 persons that were executed, and I do have documentation pertaining to

2 this execution.

3 Q. That's fine. But just to be clear, was that a person from your

4 village?

5 A. Yes.

6 Q. Thank you.

7 MR. BEHAR: Your Honours, I would seek to tender that photograph.

8 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

9 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00647, Your Honours.

10 MR. BEHAR: Briefly, if we could have photo 05251, please.

11 Q. Sir, do you recognise this photo and can you tell us what it

12 depicts?

13 A. Yes. This photograph depicts a burned or charred body of a

14 co-villager of ours. 18 of these 78 bodies were burned, and this can be

15 proven by other original photographs that were taken in the period of

16 time between 24th of March and 15th of April, photographs that were taken

17 on the spot.

18 Q. Thank you, sir.

19 MR. BEHAR: Your Honours, I would seek to tender that photograph.

20 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

21 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00648, Your Honours.

22 MR. BEHAR: Can I have up photograph 05252.

23 Q. Sir, were you involved in the taking of this photograph as well?

24 A. Yes. I was the leader of this group of 15 or 16 persons that had

25 remained in the area after the starting of the bombing and until the time

Page 3540

1 of these bodies were buried. Together we organised the burial of these

2 bodies. You can see that some persons were placed under the vehicle and

3 then the whole vehicle and the bodies were set on fire.

4 Q. Thank you.

5 MR. BEHAR: Your Honours, I would seek to tender that as an

6 exhibit as well, please.

7 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

8 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00649, Your Honours.

9 MR. BEHAR:

10 Q. Sir, in your statement at page 5 and paragraph 4, you describe

11 how during this time, when these photos were taken, you would hide in the

12 fields between Bela Crkva and Celine.

13 MR. BEHAR: Could we have up photograph 05247, please.

14 Q. Sir, I can see from this photograph that there's no foliage on

15 the trees. Can you tell us when this photograph was taken?

16 A. From the 24th of March up until the 15th of May we were in the

17 village. This photograph was taken in spring and this was the area where

18 we took shelter during the days, from the morning until 6.00 p.m. I'm the

19 person standing with another member of the group who is lying on the

20 ground.

21 We stayed in this place during the day hiding and sheltering

22 ourselves because we were scared, and we would remain here in this place

23 until the evening. This happened day after day. We would stay there

24 during the day, and then in the evening we would carry out the burial of

25 the massacred persons.

Page 3541

1 Q. Sir, can you tell me, if you know, how far you would have been

2 here from Kotlina?

3 A. You mean from Celine?

4 Q. No, from Kotlina, if you know, if you know where that is and how

5 far that would be from where you were.

6 A. I don't understand it, Kotlina.

7 Q. That's fine, sir. Do you know where that village is located?

8 A. No.

9 Q. That's fine.

10 A. It doesn't ring a bell for the moment.

11 Q. That's fine, sir. We can move on.

12 MR. BEHAR: Your Honours, I would seek to tender that photograph

13 as well, please.

14 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

15 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00650, Your Honours.

16 MR. BEHAR: And can I have photograph 05253, please.

17 Q. Sir, can you tell us where this photograph was taken?

18 A. This photograph was taken during the time we were away from the

19 village and had gone to a location where the whole population was

20 gathered after the 25th of March. This is about 1 kilometre in -- from

21 the outskirts of the village.

22 Q. From the village of Celine?

23 A. Yes.

24 Q. And how far would this be from the location of the previous

25 photograph, roughly?

Page 3542

1 A. 200 metres more or less. The location of the previous photograph

2 is kind of behind the location depicted on this one.

3 Q. Thank you, sir.

4 MR. BEHAR: Your Honours, I would seek to tender that exhibit as

5 well.

6 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

7 THE REGISTRAR: That will be P00651, Your Honours.

8 MR. BEHAR: Finally could we have Exhibit 00634 on the screen,

9 please. I'm not sure if that's correct. If I could have a moment's

10 indulgence.

11 [Prosecution counsel confer]

12 MR. BEHAR: Sorry, I see the problem. I actually needed -- it

13 was marked today P00634 from this case. That's my fault.

14 Thank you.

15 Q. Mr. Jemini, do you recognise this building?

16 A. Yes.

17 Q. And can you tell what it is?

18 A. It's the village mosque.

19 Q. And can you tell us how you're able to recognise it?

20 A. I recognise it because I lived there. There was only one mosque

21 in the village, a sacred place, and that's why I can well recognise it.

22 Q. In your testimony in the Milutinovic case, you described that

23 this mosque was destroyed in March of 1999. Can you explain to us how

24 you know that?

25 A. Yes. As I said earlier, we moved around the village for two

Page 3543

1 months in the outskirts during the day and in the village itself during

2 the night. Six or seven days after the 24th of March at around 10.00

3 this mosque was bombed. I think we will look at the photograph that

4 depicts the ruined mosque. At the same day at around 5.00 we visited the

5 mosque. It was completely destroyed. It was just blown up.

6 Q. And, sir, can you explain to us exactly what you saw or heard

7 personally?

8 A. We were about 6 or 700 metres from the mosque. We were

9 sheltering at this distance from the mosque. The detonation was so

10 powerful that could almost equal the detonations of other military

11 forces. And after we heard the sound of the detonation, we saw the

12 minaret falling down, and we realised that the mosque had just been

13 destroyed. Since we were curious, in the afternoon at 5.00 a.m. -- p.m.

14 THE INTERPRETER: Correction.

15 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] -- we went to see the mosque for

16 ourselves and verify the damage.

17 MR. BEHAR:

18 Q. At that time of that explosion, were there any Serb forces in the

19 town; and if so, who?

20 A. Yes, they were regularly there in the morning. From 3.00 or 4.00

21 they would enter the village, and that day they were in the village.

22 Q. And you say "they," but who is "they"?

23 A. These were police forces with other collaborators, people who

24 were looting the village every day. Every day they went into the village

25 they looted the houses.

Page 3544

1 Q. That's fine. Thank you, sir?

2 MR. BEHAR: Your Honours, I just have about 30 more seconds and

3 then I know Mr. Stamp would like to briefly address you as well.

4 If I could have Exhibit 01800, please.

5 Q. Sir, do you recognise this?

6 A. Yes. This is the mosque after it was destroyed, after the

7 explosion and after the explosives had been placed there and it was

8 destroyed. This picture was taken on the same day.

9 Q. Thank you, sir. Those are my questions.

10 JUDGE PARKER: Do you tender that?

11 MR. BEHAR: Oh, yes --

12 JUDGE PARKER: It will be received.

13 MR. BEHAR: Oh --

14 THE REGISTRAR: Your Honours, we had earlier assigned it as

15 P00638.

16 MR. BEHAR: Yes, thank you.

17 JUDGE PARKER: Thank you.

18 We must, Mr. Jemini, adjourn for today to continue tomorrow

19 morning at 9.00. Your -- we would ask you if you could return tomorrow

20 morning to continue your evidence, and the court officer will show you

21 out now while we attend to a brief procedural matter.

22 [The witness stands down]

23 MR. STAMP: Your Honours, briefly I think I should advise the

24 Court that of the three witnesses scheduled for our next week, two of

25 them have indicated that they are not able to come. One, as a matter of