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Page 45549

1 Yes, Ms. Pack.

2 MS. PACK: Thank you, Mr. President, Your Honours.

3 Cross-examination by Ms. Pack:

4 Q. Mr. Petrovic, you were deputy commander of the Bratunac Brigade

5 military police platoon in July 1995, weren't you?

6 A. It is not correct. I was actually not appointed. I was just

7 verbally told that I would stand in for Jankovic if he was not there. I

8 was not appointed. Momir Nikolic only told me in his office that I would

9 be Mirko's deputy if Mirko was away.

10 Q. Your commander was Mirko Jankovic; right?

11 A. Yes.

12 Q. You have testified previously that you were the de facto deputy

13 commander of the Bratunac Brigade military police platoon. Do you now

14 deny that?

15 A. What do you mean by "de facto"?

16 Q. Let's just look at your earlier testimony just to shorten things.

17 MS. PACK: 65 ter 25811, please.

18 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] I believe that the witness's

19 question should be answered. When he asked about the term "de facto," I

20 think that it should be explained because it does not belong to our

21 language.

22 MS. PACK: I'll accept that.

23 Q. Did you perform the duty of deputy commander of the military

24 police platoon of the Bratunac Brigade in July 1995?

25 A. When Mirko Jankovic was away, when he wasn't there. Otherwise,

Page 45550

1 there was no appointment as such. When he was away, which sometimes

2 happened, everybody knew that Mr. Petrovic would stand in for him and

3 that was that.

4 Q. Yes. You've struggled with this before. Let's look at 65 ter

5 just quickly, as I said, 25811. I'll read it to you because it's in

6 English and it's your testimony at the sentencing hearing for

7 Momir Nikolic, and I wanted to look at page 16, please, in e-court. And

8 I'll just read from halfway down. You were asked by counsel for

9 Mr. Nikolic:

10 "Did you have any post in the Bratunac Brigade military police?"

11 Because, of course, he reminded you that in your statement you'd

12 called yourself, I think, you said that you worked as a military

13 policeman.

14 "Q. Did you have any post in the Bratunac Brigade military

15 police?

16 "A. No, apart from the fact that I was told orally that I was a

17 deputy of the commander. But I didn't feel like that.

18 "Q. Mr. Petrovic, were you the deputy commander of the military

19 police of the Bratunac Brigade. Yes or no?

20 "A. I was not given a document. I was just told orally by

21 Nikolic that I was to stand in for Mirko when he wasn't around.

22 "Q. May I take your answer as meaning, yes, that you were the

23 deputy commander of the military police of the Bratunac Brigade?

24 "A. Yes. But there was no order to that effect.

25 "Q. Mr. Petrovic, did you, de facto, perform the duty of deputy

Page 45551

1 commander of the military police of the Bratunac Brigade in July 1995?

2 "A. Yes."

3 So you remember testifying to that fact before and you would

4 stand by that testimony, would you?

5 A. Well, I have repeated the same thing today. I didn't change

6 anything. But there was really no appointment to that effect, and I've

7 already explained that. That's all.

8 Q. You were promoted to commander of the military police platoon of

9 the Bratunac Brigade in March of 1996; is that right?

10 A. Yes, this is right. When Mirko Jankovic left the military, I was

11 appointed as the commander.

12 Q. You gave a statement to the Bratunac police station on the

13 25th of August, 2003. Do you remember giving a statement?

14 A. Yes, I gave statements.

15 Q. You gave this statement after you read a report in the press

16 about what Momir Nikolic had said about you at the ICTY. Yes, is that

17 correct?

18 A. Yes.

19 Q. And before you gave your statement to the Bratunac police

20 station, you spoke to Mirko Jankovic about what Momir Nikolic had said;

21 is that correct?

22 A. Yes.

23 Q. You gave the statement that was admitted in evidence today to the

24 Defence team in the Blagojevic case on 29th September, 2003. You've

25 identified broadly two matters that Momir Nikolic says in his evidence

Page 45552

1 with which you say you disagree, both of which involve allegations about

2 you personally, what you said and did. And I'm just going to summarise

3 two of them broadly, and I would just like you to confirm that you agree

4 or disagree that I've summarised your evidence correctly.

5 Firstly, he says you used a megaphone to call Muslim men to

6 surrender while you were travelling with him and Jankovic in the UN APC

7 from Bratunac to Konjevic Polje on 13 July, and you say you didn't; is

8 that right? Have I accurately put your position?

9 A. That was not the case.

10 Q. And you say you -- he says that six Muslim men surrendered to you

11 on the road between Bratunac and Konjevic Polje and that you reported to

12 him at Konjevic Polje that you had killed these six Muslim men to avenge

13 your brother. You say -- you can tell me whether this is correct. You

14 say there were only two Muslim men and you didn't execute them; is that

15 right?

16 A. Right.

17 Q. I want to look with you at some areas of agreement with

18 Mr. Momir Nikolic's testimony. Firstly, you agree, of course, don't you,

19 that you travelled in a stolen UN APC from Bratunac to Konjevic Polje on

20 the 13 July, 1995, with him and Mirko Jankovic, yes?

21 A. Yes.

22 Q. Jankovic, your commander, was the driver, wasn't he? Because he

23 knew how to drive an APC.

24 A. Yes.

25 Q. He'd been able to start it up; right?

Page 45553

1 A. Yes, he did start it up.

2 Q. You would also agree, wouldn't you, that you had a brother who

3 was killed, wasn't he, during an attack on Bjelovac, where you were from,

4 killed by units of the ABiH, in December 1992?

5 A. Yes.

6 Q. And this is another matter, not in your statement to the

7 Blagojevic Defence team but in your other statement, earlier statement,

8 on the morning of the 14th of July you -- with your commander,

9 Mirko Jankovic, you escorted the convoy of Muslim prisoners that

10 travelled from Bratunac to Zvornik on that day, on that morning, yes?

11 A. Yes.

12 Q. And you were travelling in a stolen UN APC?

13 A. Yes.

14 Q. You went to Orahovac, to the school at Orahovac?

15 A. I don't remember. I was not familiar with the place, so I don't

16 know. I know that there was a road below the road. We came from that

17 direction. I saw the school, but I don't know what its name was nor did

18 I know the name of the place.

19 Q. Now, in --

20 JUDGE KWON: Just a second, did you say "there was a road below

21 the road"?

22 THE INTERPRETER: Interpreter correct herself: There was a

23 school below the road.

24 JUDGE KWON: Thank you.

25 MS. PACK: Thank you, Mr. President.

Page 45554

1 Q. Now, in challenging --

2 JUDGE KWON: Yeah, it has been clarified. Please continue.

3 MS. PACK:

4 Q. In challenging Momir Nikolic's account, what you did and said on

5 the 13th of July, you were seeking to underplay, aren't you, your role in

6 the Srebrenica events? You have not been entirely honest with this

7 Court, have you?

8 A. I don't understand. What role are you talking about?

9 Q. The allegations which you deny, which you discussed with

10 Mirko Jankovic in advance of giving a statement to the Bratunac SUP, you

11 are not being entirely honest about these allegations, what Momir Nikolic

12 said, are you?

13 A. I am honest. I did not discuss all those matters with

14 Mirko Jankovic and what happened. I was in front of the hospital. I

15 told him that I was summoned to The Hague. He told me that he was, too.

16 And that was all. We did not discuss the matters. He knew what had

17 happened, I knew what had happened, and that's all I can say about

18 Mirko Jankovic. We never sat down to work out a certain plan, which is

19 what you seem to be trying to suggest.

20 Q. Let's look at what you did on the 13th of July. You accept,

21 don't you, that Muslim men were called upon to surrender by Serb forces

22 along the Bratunac-Konjevic Polje road using loudspeakers? You accept

23 that that happened?

24 A. That did happen, but it was not us who were calling out to them.

25 It was done by those people who were in the civilian police cars.

Page 45555

1 Q. I'll remind you in your Defence statement, you tell us that

2 civilian police in police cars with blue license plates were calling to

3 the Muslims to surrender. That's what you say in your statement;

4 correct?

5 A. Yes.

6 Q. You -- witnesses in this case have testified that they were

7 deceived into thinking that it was safe for them to surrender because

8 they saw a UN personnel carrier on the road or at the intersection at

9 Konjevic Polje. You're aware that that's the case, that Muslim men

10 thought that it was safe because they saw UN APC on the road?

11 A. I don't know. The thought never occurred to me at that time.

12 Mr. Nikolic ordered us to go to Konjevic Polje. I didn't know why. He

13 never told us. We just went there and we returned. We had two lads from

14 the United Nations in that APC. And then we returned. And after that,

15 we just sat down for a while and then went home.

16 Q. You're aware, aren't you, that the men who surrendered on the

17 road, on the Konjevic Polje road -- Bratunac-Konjevic Polje road, they

18 were executed on the 13th or after that -- in the days after that by

19 Bosnian Serb armed forces? You're aware that that's what happened to

20 them?

21 A. Well, I heard about it later.

22 Q. Just back to your statement. This is your statement in the

23 Blagojevic case, the one that's been admitted today. You say you went

24 for a drive in the APC with UN soldiers who were at Konjevic Polje. You

25 went for a drive with them; is that right?

Page 45556

1 A. Correct. With those two who had seen us and surrendered.

2 Q. You describe them as foreign nationals. They're English

3 speaking; is that correct? They were English speaking, yes?

4 A. Oh, no, no. No, it -- you and I didn't understand each other. I

5 thought you were asking me about those two Muslims who had surrendered.

6 Q. No, I --

7 A. Is that what you're asking?

8 Q. No, I was asking about UN soldiers that you picked up at

9 Konjevic Polje and took for a drive.

10 A. Well, first of all, we didn't pick them up. What happened is

11 that Momir Nikolic said, after they told their story, that they should

12 come onto the APC and drive around with us because the columns were

13 coming from the direction of Bratunac, columns of people who were wounded

14 and exhausted. So they got onto the APC with us, and we went towards

15 Bratunac, a kilometre or two, and then they said we should return. We

16 returned, a jeep came to pick them up, and they drove away.

17 Q. So your evidence is that you went for a drive up the road towards

18 Bratunac and then you came back with these two Dutch soldiers?

19 A. That's right.

20 Q. I'm going to read out a statement that was taken in October 1995

21 by the Dutch authorities from a Dutch soldier, part of DutchBat, who was

22 at Konjevic Polje on the 13th of July and went for a drive in a UN APC

23 with Serbian soldiers.

24 MS. PACK: If we could bring it up. It's 65 ter 03239. There is

25 English and B/C/S and Dutch. Could we have the English and B/C/S up,

Page 45557

1 please. And it's the English, please, at page 9. It's just the front

2 page B/C/S. Page 9 is the front page of the Dutch statement. Sorry, in

3 fact, perhaps if we look at English page 8 and B/C/S page 9. That --

4 just so that you can see that this is the front page of the Dutch

5 statement. Okay. This is Martijn Anne Mulder. Now, I'm going to ask,

6 please, if we just go to English page 11 and B/C/S page 12.

7 Q. Now, he was a soldier, a DutchBat soldier, and he gives an

8 account of having been taken to Konjevic Polje on the 13 July, 1995, and

9 at one point a UN APC arrived. And I'm going to take it up from there.

10 And if you look at your screen, you can see the statement in B/C/S as I'm

11 reading it out in English. And you can see in the B/C/S it's fourth

12 paragraph down I'm going to read from, second paragraph in the English.

13 He says:

14 "After some time, it was made clear to us that we would be

15 brought back to Potocari. We waited there for about an hour until an APC

16 from the UN approached us from the direction of Bratunac."

17 And I won't read the rest of that paragraph. It's starting at

18 the next one:

19 "We then had to get into the APC and the soldier, who later went

20 to sit on the commander's seat, told us to open the hatch of the APC and

21 take our places at the top of the vehicle. He made this clear to us

22 through hand gestures. He also told us in a mixture of English and

23 Serbo-Croatian that we had to shoot at any Muslims, de Bruine," this is

24 the soldier's colleague, "and I were given a Kalashnikov each and we also

25 got a flak jacket and helmet. The APC then headed off in the direction

Page 45558

1 of Potocari.

2 "About one kilometre after having left Konjevici and heading in

3 the direction of Bratunac, the APC turned off the main road and drove

4 directly into the enemy woodlands where there were many armed Muslims.

5 We drove around that area for about 45 minutes. de Bruine sat on the top

6 of the APC the whole time. So did I, except for the last bit.

7 "It would have been much better for our own safety to ride in the

8 APC with the hatch down. Driving through the woodlands while sitting on

9 top of the APC was really very dangerous for us because we were acting as

10 a target for the Muslims. There was no point in sitting on the top of

11 the APC. It only made you vulnerable."

12 Going on, last bit:

13 "While we were driving around, the BSA gunner said that we had to

14 point our weapons in the same direction as his .50 calibre (gun). We did

15 not see any Muslims and therefore we did not have to shoot."

16 And then he says you went back to Konjevici. So this is an

17 account of your drive with the UN soldiers you picked up at

18 Konjevic Polje on the 13th of July, isn't it?

19 A. Half of it is not true. First of all, I gave them flak jackets

20 for their protection, and they themselves opened that hatch which I

21 myself didn't even know how to open. They came inside, they asked for

22 rifles, or perhaps I gave them my rifle. Maybe what you describe

23 happened later after I left, and we didn't go through any woodlands

24 unless they consider the road towards Bratunac woodlands. I don't

25 understand any of it. We were doing that to help them, not to go through

Page 45559

1 the woodlands.

2 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Transcript.

3 JUDGE KWON: Yes, Mr. Karadzic.

4 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Line 19, it says "I gave them my

5 rifle. Maybe ...," whereas he said, "I couldn't have given them my

6 rifle." And then he said, "What was described, perhaps, has nothing to

7 do with us. Maybe it happened later."

8 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Maybe there was some other APC

9 after us. I don't remember having that experience with those young men.

10 MS. PACK:

11 Q. Let me just clarify what you're saying here because it's a little

12 confusing with the intervention. Did you or did you not give them your

13 rifle or where -- did they have rifles with them in the APC, these two

14 Dutch soldiers? What's your evidence?

15 A. I cannot even remember clearly whether I gave him a rifle or not,

16 but I didn't even know how to handle the anti-aircraft gun, because I

17 didn't know how it's supposed to be used. It was just standing there. I

18 don't believe I gave him my rifle. I seriously doubt it. I don't

19 remember.

20 Q. And did you -- your evidence is, then, that they voluntarily

21 stood up; is that right? They voluntarily opened the hatch of the APC

22 and took their places at the top of the vehicle. Is that what your

23 evidence is?

24 A. After Momir talked to them, they got inside. And Momir only told

25 us to give them a ride wherever they want. Both of them came in and

Page 45560

1 raised this thing. I didn't even know how to raise it myself. I saw it

2 for the first time. So they lifted it and they looked at people. There

3 were people coming towards us and surrendering, and I was giving them

4 water that I had in packages, like milk packages. I had that water in

5 the APC and I threw these packages of water down to these people. I

6 don't know what he's talking about when he mentions woodlands.

7 Q. So this is your -- your honest evidence, is it, that, in fact, at

8 this point with the DutchBat soldiers, they raised the hatch of the --

9 they raised the top of the APC and they stood there? Was it dangerous

10 for them to be standing out?

11 A. Well, it's dangerous for anyone, but they were standing.

12 Actually, only their heads were out of the APC. My head was also

13 protruding from the APC, just as the head of Mirko Jankovic. And we

14 were, of course, in danger should anyone from the forest have taken aim

15 at us. But we only went down the asphalt road, not taking any turns

16 right or left.

17 Q. Let me just take you to 65 ter 25834, please. This is statement

18 of de Bruine, who is the colleague of the other Dutch soldier. And he

19 says --

20 MS. PACK: If we can go to page 8 in the English and page 8 in

21 the B/C/S. And I'll just take it from the bottom of page 8 in the

22 English and then it goes onto page 9 in the English. At the B/C/S, you

23 can see where I'm -- it's the middle of the page in the B/C/S, about the

24 third paragraph.

25 Q. He says -- he's describing that you get in -- they got into the

Page 45561

1 APC with you. And he says:

2 "We drove in the direction of the Potocari. At one stage, Mulder

3 went and sat inside the vehicle. I stayed on top ..."

4 He goes on, he says:

5 "The gunner instructed me to aim my firearm in the direction

6 indicated by him. He said that there were Muslim fighters walking around

7 there. I did not aim my firearm. About 20 minutes" --

8 JUDGE KWON: Just a second. Can we see the English page?

9 MS. PACK: Oh, I'm sorry. The English page needn't, please, be

10 there. Can we have the English trans -- it's the bottom of the page 8

11 there, and then it goes on to page 9. So I started at the bottom of

12 page 8, "We drove in the direction of Potocari."

13 JUDGE KWON: Yes.

14 MS. PACK: And then if we can just actually go immediately over

15 to page 9 in the English, I was reading:

16 "The gunner instructed me to aim my firearm in the direction

17 indicated by him. He said that there were Muslim fighters walking around

18 there. I did not aim my firearm. About 20 minutes later, we arrived

19 back at the T-junction. When we arrived back, one of the BSA fighters

20 said that we had now taken part in a Serbian patrol. At this, the

21 fighters laughed loudly."

22 Q. Do you remember you or Jankovic saying something like this,

23 finding this experience amusing?

24 A. [No interpretation]

25 THE INTERPRETER: The interpreter did not understand the witness.

Page 45562

1 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] If somebody told them that, maybe

2 that was after they left the APC, and perhaps it was one of the people

3 who were around. I don't remember.

4 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] The first part of the answer that

5 the interpreters did not understand was "God forbid."

6 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I said, "No, God forbid that

7 something like that ..."

8 MS. PACK:

9 Q. Let me ask you to look, please, at the Bratunac Brigade military

10 police daily log.

11 MS. PACK: And it's at P00169. If we can just go to page --

12 perhaps the first page in the B/C/S for the moment, and we'll be going

13 to, please, page 14 in the English.

14 Q. So this is the front page in the B/C/S you can see. We don't

15 have that in English. That's the front page of the Bratunac Brigade

16 miliary police daily log that you're familiar with, yes?

17 A. [No interpretation]

18 THE INTERPRETER: The interpreter did not understand the witness.

19 JUDGE KWON: Could you repeat what you said, Mr. Petrovic?

20 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I'm saying probably. I don't

21 remember this cover. I see it says, "On duty V.P.," which is probably

22 military police.

23 MS. PACK: Let's go to one of the entries, page 40 in English,

24 B/C/S page 17, please.

25 Q. And you can see here the entry for the 14th/15th July. And I

Page 45563

1 just wanted to highlight for you the sentence that reads:

2 "The police was engaged in the escort of Muslim refugees."

3 MS. PACK: I'm not sure, we've just lost the edge there on the

4 B/C/S. No, perhaps it's all there.

5 Q. You can see that?

6 A. [No interpretation]

7 Q. Yes, in the B/C/S, if you look, please, at the handwriting,

8 that's the entry at 14th/15 July.

9 A. Yes, I see that.

10 Q. And that is describing your escort of the Muslim men from

11 Bratunac to Zvornik; right?

12 A. Probably.

13 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Objection. The name of the witness

14 does not feature here, and these are not prisoners but refugees. I would

15 appreciate it if the questions were more precise.

16 MS. PACK: It's the 14th/15th July, so I think it's very unlikely

17 that it's refugees given that the women and children were removed from

18 Potocari on the 12th and 13th.

19 Q. You're aware, aren't you, that all of the Muslim men in the

20 convoy, all of them were executed in the Zvornik area, apart from the few

21 who escaped, over the following few days, yes?

22 A. I heard later from media reports, but I didn't known it then.

23 Q. Okay. We'll look at another entry.

24 MS. PACK: Page 16 in the English, page 19 in the B/C/S.

25 Q. And here is an entry which notes that you are the duty officer on

Page 45564

1 the 17th July. Mile Petrovic at the top there, yes?

2 A. Yes.

3 Q. If we can just read the entry, it says, second sentence:

4 "One police patrol remained in Pilica to secure and guard the

5 Muslims."

6 So that was an entry made by you as duty officer; right?

7 A. Yes.

8 Q. Did you hear back from those military policemen who were in

9 Pilica at that time what happened there?

10 A. Could you repeat that?

11 Q. Did you hear back from these military policemen who were in

12 Pilica at that time about what happened there?

13 A. They didn't tell me anything about that, nor do I know who had

14 sent them there.

15 Q. You didn't hear -- you, deputy commander of the military police

16 platoon, you didn't hear that Muslim men held at the Pilica school, Kula,

17 the school in Pilica, were taken to a nearby execution site on the

18 16th of July and shot. You didn't hear that? You didn't hear about

19 that?

20 A. No, I didn't hear. We transported those people to some school

21 under escort, they got off a bus, they got into the school which was on

22 the right-hand side of the road where we were. When they got into the

23 school, we returned, and after that, I don't know. Who would tell me?

24 Even if there was something, you know that plans are not communicated to

25 soldiers, if there had been any plans, and what happened we later heard

Page 45565

1 from the media reports.

2 Q. Did you hear that hundreds of Muslim prisoners held at the Pilica

3 Dom, they were also shot on the 16th of July? You didn't hear about that?

4 A. I didn't hear about that. That's why I'm telling you about that

5 school. I don't even know its name or in which place, because we didn't

6 stay there for a long time. We just escorted them to that place and we

7 returned on our APC.

8 Q. Let's try and look at an entry which you do know about, the

9 18th of July, please.

10 MS. PACK: Which is on the following page 18 of the English and

11 following page of the B/C/S.

12 Q. If you look at --

13 MS. PACK: I'm sorry, it's not the 18th of July. It's the

14 following page -- sorry, it's page 18 of the English -- have I got -- and

15 the following page of the B/C/S, my apologies.

16 Q. You can see its follows from the 18th of July. There is no date,

17 but it must therefore read -- be dated the 19th of July. I don't need to

18 ask you about that. You can see the entry:

19 "Patrols went to secure the public utility workers in Glogova."

20 Now, you were aware, surely, on the 19th and before, of a large

21 mass grave in the area of Glogova - yes? - as deputy commander of the

22 military police?

23 A. Of course I didn't know. How could I know everything?

24 Q. In Glogova, on the road between Bratunac and Konjevic Polje, you

25 were not aware of a large mass grave in July 1995?

Page 45566

1 A. Well, I heard about all of that later. At this time, I did not know.

2 Q. So you were aware, then, by the time the bodies were -- of Muslim

3 men who were executed and buried in July, you're aware in

4 September/October 1995 of their removal from the mass grave in Glogova to

5 other locations in Bratunac? You were aware of that happening, were you?

6 A. I didn't know about that either.

7 Q. You were not aware of trucks carrying bodies passing right

8 through the town of Bratunac, moving bodies from Glogova, round the road

9 to Zeleni Jadar and to various locations along the road to there? You

10 weren't aware of that?

11 A. I heard about that later, a few days later from others who had

12 been there.

13 Q. In September/October 1995, yes? Okay.

14 A. I don't know the exact dates. I don't remember dates. I can't

15 remember when it was. If I had known, I would have taken a notebook and

16 made notes to produce it here.

17 Q. You're aware that there have been exhumations carried out by the

18 ICTY of mass grave at Konjevic Polje? You're aware of that?

19 A. Well, I heard about that, too.

20 Q. Yes. Two locations there, very close to the Konjevic Polje

21 intersection, about a hundred metres away, yes? You're aware of the

22 exhumation there, yes?

23 A. I didn't know. I keep telling you all the time. You are trying

24 to involve me in this game all the time. The soldiers cannot know about

25 these things. If something was going on, it was being done in secret.

Page 45567

1 Q. We are talking about an exhumation at Konjevic Polje, one of the

2 two there, a hundred metres away from the intersection where you reported

3 to Momir Nikolic that you'd killed six Muslim men. That exhumation.

4 You're aware of that?

5 A. I didn't make any report to him. He came with his lawyers saying

6 that I could help him in the Blagojevic case, but I didn't want to lie.

7 He wanted me to say that Blagojevic had given him orders, but I didn't

8 want to say that. I got orders from Mirko Jankovic, from Momir Nikolic,

9 and I cannot say otherwise. And he told me, You are worse than the

10 Muslims. But what can I do if that's not the way it happened? After

11 that, he said on St. George’s Day, my patron saint's day, that I had

12 killed six people. That is why I am testifying here in public so that

13 everyone can see me, both the Muslims and Serbs. But if anybody can find

14 that I so much as slapped a single soldier, be he Muslim or --

15 Q. Let me just ask you --

16 A. -- Serb, may I be executed on the spot.

17 Q. My time is running out, so I ask you --

18 A. I had young children. He said that I was avenging my brother.

19 How could I avenge him when I don't know to this day who killed my brother.

20 Q. Very quickly, I want you to help me with this one thing. So

21 there have been nine bodies exhumed from the location in September 1999

22 where bodies were exhumed, Konjevic Polje 1, the mass grave there. And I

23 would like you, please, to help me with this. They have been

24 identified -- eight men have been identified from this location. I am

25 going to read seven of the names, one of them is confidential. And I

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1 would like to ask you -- here are the names: Emir Halilovic,

2 Samija Hasic [phoen], Sidik Mehmedovic, Fadil Omerovic,

3 Mehmedalija Omerovic, Dzemal Omerovic, Alija Velic. Can you help us,

4 please? Can you help the family members? Can you take this opportunity

5 to tell the truth and tell us if any of these names, these Muslim men

6 whom I read out, whether you recognise these names as being one or any of

7 the six Muslim men that you picked up with Momir Nikolic and reported to

8 him that you'd shot at the Konjevic Polje intersection on the 13 July?

9 Can you help us with this, please?

10 A. First of all, we did not pick up six people but two. I don't

11 want to swear on my children, but we picked up two and left them there.

12 Momir questioned them by that concrete slab, and then we came to the

13 junction, and then those people came. They told me to go back and they

14 would take the people to another building across the road where there

15 were many more people. Now, what do I have to do with this? I don't

16 even know the names of these people, nor would I remember them. I don't

17 remember them and I don't know them. I really can't help you. If I

18 could, I would. I would tell you about everything. I cannot say that I

19 had done this when I didn't, and Momir Nikolic knows this well. He's

20 just pretending he doesn't know.

21 MS. PACK: I have no further questions, thank you.

22 JUDGE KWON: Thank you, Ms. Pack.

23 Yes, Mr. Karadzic.

24 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Could we check in the transcript

25 page 22, from line 24 down. The witness said: "Later on, he said that