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1 Tuesday, 14 September 2010
2 [Open session]
3 [The accused entered court]
4 --- Upon commencing at 2.19 p.m.
5 JUDGE ORIE: Good afternoon to everyone in and around this
6 courtroom. Madam Registrar, would you please call the case.
7 THE REGISTRAR: Good afternoon, Your Honours. Good afternoon
8 everyone in and around the courtroom. This is the case IT-03-69-T, the
9 Prosecutor versus Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic.
10 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you, Madam Registrar.
11 We find ourselves today in a bit of an odd situation. The air
12 condition is not functioning well. The spare part needed is expected to
13 arrive somewhere this afternoon. Most likely we'll move after the first
14 session to another courtroom which is not available now yet. Meanwhile
15 we have fans, ventilators. Of course, we could have also chosen not to
16 use them and see how the temperature will be. As matters stand now, I
17 suggest that we start with the fans on. Since almost everyone is using
18 his earphones, I hope that the noise of the fans is not too disturbing,
19 but if everyone would prefer to have them switched off, then we'll give
20 that a try as well.
21 Is the Prosecution ready to call its next witness?
22 MR. GROOME: Yes, Your Honour. The Prosecution calls JF-039.
23 There are a couple of preliminary matters if I might address the Chamber
24 about.
25 JUDGE ORIE: Yes.
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1 MR. GROOME: On the 29th of April, 2010, the Prosecution filed an
2 application seeking two things with respect to this witness. First, that
3 his testimony be taken by video, and two that his protective measures be
4 augmented to include voice distortion.
5 The witness is presently in The Hague and therefore the
6 Prosecution moves to withdraw its application for videolink. With
7 respect to the request for voice distortion, I would add that this
8 witness currently benefits from protective measures issued by another
9 Trial Chamber. After having given evidence in that case, the witness was
10 challenged by someone who recognised that it was he that was giving
11 evidence. The Prosecution believes that the added protection of voice
12 distortion may prevent this after his testimony in this case.
13 JUDGE ORIE: Even without having heard the Defence, the motion to
14 withdraw the application for videolink is granted. I cannot imagine of
15 any reason why we should not grant it where the witness is now in The
16 Hague. The second ...
17 [Trial Chamber and Registrar confer]
18 JUDGE ORIE: Now, as far as voice distortion is concerned, I'd
19 like to hear from the Defence. I think the Defence teams opposed it. I
20 observe that the difference with the protective measures in place is that
21 the public who is supposed not to identify the person, who supposed not
22 to see the person's face will, if the motion would be granted, not hear
23 his original voice. That is only a slight difference, and the Defence
24 teams are invited to explain what is opposing this slight change as far
25 as the public character of the trial is concerned. If there's any need
Page 7181
1 to do this in private session, you are reminded that we have already
2 protective measures in place.
3 MR. JORDASH: No objection.
4 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Bakrac.
5 MR. BAKRAC: [Interpretation] The Simatovic Defence has no
6 objection either.
7 JUDGE ORIE: Then the motion to extend the protective measures to
8 voice distortion is granted. The reasons being that it adds to the
9 protection which is already in place, that is that the identity of the
10 witness will not be known to the public to avoid any further risk.
11 Any other matter?
12 MR. GROOME: No, Your Honour. Just to assist the Chamber in its
13 scheduling. I anticipate that my examination will be substantially
14 shorter than three hours, possibly under two hours.
15 JUDGE ORIE: Yes, that doesn't surprise me in view of what we've
16 seen as 92 ter material. Any other matter before we ask the witness to
17 be escorted into the courtroom? No, then one final check. There was a
18 problem with the voice distortion, Madam Registrar, has it been fixed?
19 THE REGISTRAR: No, it hasn't been fixed. I've been just
20 informed that technicians are working on it and they cannot provide any
21 estimations how it's going to be or when it's going to be fixed, Your
22 Honours.
23 JUDGE ORIE: A way of dealing with it would be that we would
24 start in closed session and then later make public the transcript of the
25 first part of the testimony. Especially since we do not know whether we
Page 7182
1 have to wait for five or ten minutes or for an hour, it's a loss of
2 valuable core time and the content of the testimony will then still be
3 made public. Any comments of the parties?
4 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, the Prosecution has no objection to
5 proceeding in that manner.
6 MR. JORDASH: The Defence has no objection, although we would
7 wish for the testimony in large part to be heard in public, and I mean
8 contemporaneously in public, though something is lost by issuing
9 transcripts.
10 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Bakrac.
11 MR. BAKRAC: [Interpretation] We have no problem with proceeding
12 this way.
13 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Jordash, I fully agree with you that this is not
14 the preferred way to proceed, but we have to balance at this moment also
15 the uncertainty about when it will be fixed and we have two days left
16 this week, otherwise the witness will have to stay over until Monday the
17 20th, and in order to avoid that and in view of the limited loss of
18 information, and still there's some loss, I do agree with you, but one of
19 the thing we could do is to invite Mr. Groome to start as much as
20 possible with portions of his examination-in-chief for which he would
21 have asked private session anyhow because then I don't know to what
22 extent that is possible, Mr. Groome.
23 MR. GROOME: It certainly is possible, Your Honour, but I had
24 anticipated only spending about five minutes in private session, so I'm
25 not sure.
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1 JUDGE ORIE: Well, if I -- okay, but that's -- one second.
2 [Trial Chamber and Registrar confer]
3 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, I have a suggestion if the Chamber --
4 JUDGE ORIE: Please.
5 MR. GROOME: -- was looking for a suggestion to how to use the
6 time productively. The Chamber had asked for detailed submissions with
7 respect to a matter that arose with the last two witnesses regarding
8 interview notes. I'd be prepared to use this time to make those detailed
9 submissions now, I don't know if my colleagues on the Defence are.
10 JUDGE ORIE: I'm quite hesitant because my first concern is the
11 next witness and see whether we can conclude hearing his evidence as soon
12 as possible, so that would not be resolved by your suggestion. When I
13 say that we would hear the testimony in closed session, private session
14 would do, I take it, because we have face distortion and we have
15 pseudonym and together with private session the effect would be the same.
16 We move into private session.
17 [Private session]
18 THE REGISTRAR: We are in private session, Your Honours.
19 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you, Madam Registrar.
20 Just to inform the parties if you'll hear the testimony in
21 private session, the witness is accompanied by an accompanying person who
22 is allowed to follow the proceedings and that person can follow the
23 proceedings from the public gallery but then we have to ensure that the
24 public gallery is not accessible to what it is for, that is for the
25 public. So if the parties see a person or persons moving in the public
Page 7184
1 gallery, I have instructed Madam Registrar to ensure that it's only that
2 person who can follow the proceedings, and at the beginning of the
3 testimony, I'll instruct that person in the public gallery not to
4 disclose anything which is said in private session.
5 MR. JORDASH: Your Honour, are we allowed to inquire as to who
6 this person is?
7 JUDGE ORIE: This is usually, I would refer you to -- the Chamber
8 doesn't know. It's usually a person of confidence accompanying the
9 witness. Let me just check, one second.
10 [Trial Chamber confers]
11 JUDGE ORIE: I'd like to seek the advice of VWS before disclosing
12 the name of a person. The Chamber is not aware of the name of that
13 person. It's usually VWS who decides whether a witness can be
14 accompanied by a person.
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10 JUDGE ORIE: I have considered the matter with my colleagues.
11 There are two aspects which may be relevant for our decision. The one
12 aspect is that the public under normal circumstances would know about the
13 content of the testimony, so the risks would be the same if we didn't
14 have this technical problem. There is another matter. The one person
15 for whom the protective measures are not needed is the support person. I
16 mean, he knows the voice of the witness, he knows his identity, and knows
17 his face, so therefore the whole exercise of protective measures, of
18 course, are totally without any sense in relation to this person. And to
19 that extent, there's no need in view of the reasons why the witness is
20 protected to exclude this person from following the proceedings.
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7 JUDGE ORIE: Then the Chamber decides that the support person is
8 allowed to follow the proceedings from the public gallery and therefore
9 it should be ensured that no other member of the public has access to the
10 public gallery at this moment. May the witness be brought into the
11 courtroom. Is the support person already present in the public gallery?
12 I have difficulties in looking through the smoke glass. Not. Then
13 access should be given to him and I would like to briefly address that
14 person.
15 The technicians have no expectation at this moment how they could
16 fix the failing voice distortion. Since it was planned already to move
17 to another courtroom after the first break, that may resolve at least
18 part of the problem.
19 [The witness entered court]
20 JUDGE ORIE: Good afternoon, Witness JF-039. Can you hear me in
21 a language you understand?
22 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes.
23 JUDGE ORIE: May I invite you to make a solemn declaration of
24 which the text is now handed out to you.
25 THE INTERPRETER: Interpreter's note: Could one of the
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1 alternative microphones please be switched on, we can't hear the witness.
2 Thank you.
3 JUDGE ORIE: Could the other -- another microphone be switched
4 on, or both. Yes, please.
5 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I solemnly declare that I will
6 speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
7 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you. Please be seated.
8 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Thank you.
9 JUDGE ORIE: Before we start your examination, Witness JF-039,
10 I'd like to explain to you a few matters. First of all, the air
11 conditioning in this courtroom is not functioning -- the witness
12 apparently doesn't receive interpretation. Mr. Usher, could you check
13 with the witness. Do you now receive interpretation?
14 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes.
15 JUDGE ORIE: Okay. I started explaining you a few matters.
16 First of all, the air conditioning has broken down in this courtroom
17 which means that we find ourselves in not the preferred atmosphere. It's
18 too warm, there's a likelihood that we'll move to another courtroom after
19 the first break.
20 Second, Witness JF-039, protective measures are in place in
21 respect of you. You will testify under pseudonym, that's the reason why
22 I call you JF-039 and not -- I do not call you by your own name. Second,
23 no one outside this courtroom will see your face, face distortion is in
24 place. In addition to that, voice distortion is granted as an additional
25 protective measures. However, at this moment the system doesn't work as
Page 7189
1 it should and therefore at this very moment we are in private session,
2 but there is a chance that to the extent not needed for your protection
3 that the transcript later will be made available to the public just as
4 the public would have been informed about the content of your testimony
5 if all the protective measures were functioning well.
6 Further, you are accompanied by a support person. The Chamber
7 has allowed that support person to be present also during this part of
8 the hearing. However, at the end of today's session I will instruct you,
9 and the same applies for the breaks today, that you should not speak or
10 communicate with anyone about your testimony, and that would include your
11 support person. So you are under an order not to speak one word about
12 your testimony whether that will be testimony you have already given or
13 testimony you still are expected to give with anyone including your
14 support person. If you would violate this order, you expose yourself to
15 an investigation and even possibly a Prosecution for contempt of court.
16 So you should be very cautious. Talk about the weather, talk about your
17 families. He is here, as I do understand, a personal friend, (redacted)
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19 your testimony with anyone including the support person. Is that clear?
20 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Indeed, it is.
21 JUDGE ORIE: And I take it that the support person who has
22 meanwhile been given access to the public gallery has also understood
23 that whatever he hears when we are in private session should not be
24 disclosed to the public and in addition to that, that the support person
25 should not discuss, speak, communicate in whatever way with the witness
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1 about the testimony.
2 Is there any way that I could have confirmation that the support
3 person has understood this and that he will abide to this order? I
4 cannot see if raising a hand would -- but I do not see whether the
5 support person is already in the public gallery.
6 MR. GROOME: He is, Your Honour.
7 JUDGE ORIE: Could the support person are perhaps stand for a
8 second and by raising his hand confirm that he has both understood and
9 will obey to the orders? I do understand that he cannot hear us. Then
10 when we are in the other courtroom --
11 MR. GROOME: He is motioning that there are no headsets in there.
12 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. I'd like to be informed as soon as he has
13 received a headset so that I can extend the instructions.
14 MR. JORDASH: Your Honour, if it assists, we take no point in
15 relation to a delayed warning if Your Honours consider that appropriate.
16 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. I would like to proceed, as a matter of fact.
17 At the same time, of course, I want to take every caution to seek
18 confirmation that the support person has understood my instructions.
19 Apparently it doesn't work, then he can watch.
20 MR. GROOME: He is still in there without a headset. I have an
21 extra headset here on our table.
22 JUDGE ORIE: There seems to be a technical problem in there as
23 well, so let's just proceed. As soon as there's a chance that the words
24 spoken in this courtroom can be heard by the support person, I'd like to
25 be informed immediately so that I can give the instructions relevant for
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1 the witness, otherwise we'll wait until we have moved to another
2 courtroom.
3 Witness JF-039, you'll first be examined by Mr. Groome.
4 Mr. Groome is counsel for the Prosecution. Mr. Groome.
5 MR. GROOME: Thank you, Your Honour.
6 WITNESS: JF-039
7 [Witness answered through interpreter]
8 Examination by Mr. Groome:
9 Q. Good afternoon, Witness JF-039.
10 MR. GROOME: I'd ask that we display 65 ter 5763 on the screen
11 before the witness.
12 Q. JF-039, you should soon see a document displayed on the screen to
13 your right. When you do and have had a chance to read it, I would ask
14 you to confirm whether it is your name that we see on the screen.
15 A. Yes, that's my name.
16 Q. Is that your date of birth that we see?
17 A. Yes.
18 Q. Now, we can see, JF-039, is the other number on that screen the
19 pseudonym that you were assigned at a prior proceeding before this
20 Tribunal?
21 A. Yes.
22 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, at this time the Prosecution would
23 tender 65 ter 5763 under seal.
24 JUDGE ORIE: Could I see the -- there's only one version, only
25 the original version of this document, yes.
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1 Madam Registrar, the number would be?
2 THE REGISTRAR: This would be Exhibit P976, Your Honours.
3 JUDGE ORIE: P976 is admitted under seal. Please proceed.
4 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, if we were not faced with the technical
5 difficulties, I would be asking for the next several questions to be
6 taken in private session, so I will mark that on the record. Hopefully
7 it will assist the Chamber.
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8 Q. Do you believe that you can provide reliable information to this
9 Chamber with respect to when a particular event occurred?
10 A. Yes.
11 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, again if we had not had technical
12 difficulty, I would be asking to move out of private session at this
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17 Now, I'd ask that 65 ter 5762 be brought to our screens. It is
18 the prior testimony of this witness and I will not say the dates as this
19 may become public.
20 Q. Prior to coming to the Hague
21 copy of your prior testimony in another proceeding?
22 A. Yes.
23 Q. Did you have an opportunity to review the transcript of that
24 proceedings or of your evidence in those proceedings?
25 A. Yes.
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1 Q. Is the transcript with respect to your testimony accurate and
2 truthful?
3 A. Yes.
4 Q. If I were to ask you the same questions today that you were asked
5 in your examination in that other proceeding, would you give the same
6 answers in substance?
7 A. Yes.
8 Q. Having reviewed the transcript of these proceedings, do you wish
9 to make any corrections or clarifications to your prior evidence in those
10 proceedings?
11 A. Yes.
12 Q. What corrections do you want to make? Are there corrections that
13 you want to make with respect to those prior proceedings?
14 A. Could I please ask for my statement from the last time I
15 testified, could I get that, the copy to have a look and see whether
16 there was anything that I needed to correct.
17 Q. There are two things that I'm going to ask you about, one is your
18 prior testimony and one is your statement. I will bring your statement
19 to the screen in a few minutes. Just focusing on the transcript of your
20 prior testimony, having reviewed that, are there any corrections that you
21 wish to make to your prior testimony?
22 A. No, I don't.
23 Q. Now that you have taken the solemn declaration, do you affirm the
24 accuracy and truthfulness of the -- your testimony in the prior
25 proceedings?
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1 A. Yes.
2 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, at this time the Prosecution would
3 tender 65 ter 5762 into evidence under seal.
4 JUDGE ORIE: I hear of no objections. Madam Registrar.
5 THE REGISTRAR: This would be Exhibit P977 under seal, Your
6 Honours.
7 JUDGE ORIE: And is admitted under seal. Please proceed.
8 MR. GROOME: Now, can we please see 65 ter 5761 on the screen
9 before us. And this is a signed statement. Again I will not say the
10 date in the event that this part of the proceedings are in public.
11 Q. Now, Witness JF-039, while we are waiting for that to be
12 displayed, were you interviewed by members of the Office of the
13 Prosecutor in 2003?
14 A. Yes.
15 Q. Can I ask you to look at the first page of 65 ter 5761, and after
16 you do that, let us know that you have seen it and then I will ask that
17 you be shown the last page before I ask a question.
18 A. Yes, that is the statement that I made, the first page.
19 MR. GROOME: Could I ask that we go to the last page.
20 JUDGE ORIE: Could we perhaps move this one up a bit so that
21 we ... Now you've seen the whole of the page in the original, your
22 answer still is the same, I take it?
23 MR. BAKRAC: [Interpretation] Your Honours, I apologise for
24 interrupting but I've lost the transcript. I have neither the transcript
25 nor the e-court. Neither the LiveNote nor the e-court on my screens.
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1 JUDGE ORIE: A technician is called to assist you. Perhaps you
2 could exceptionally sit next to Mr. Jordash so that you are able to --
3 you lost it on both your screens? My apologies, Mr. Jordash, for making
4 invitations on your part.
5 MR. JORDASH: It's a pleasure.
6 JUDGE ORIE: Okay. Then let's move on and a technician will
7 resolve the problem as soon as possible.
8 MR. BAKRAC: [Interpretation] Both screens, Your Honour, but I
9 think I can just move over to the next station.
10 JUDGE ORIE: Find the best screen you can see. Please proceed.
11 MR. GROOME: Could I ask that we move to the last page of 65 ter
12 5761. It's the signature page, not the annexes to the -- not the annexes
13 to the statement.
14 Q. JF-039, while we still have the first page, is that your
15 signature on the bottom of this page, or your initials?
16 A. Yes.
17 MR. GROOME: Are we able to move to the signature page?
18 JUDGE ORIE: It's in e-court page 20 out of 28. Or 19, both. I
19 think 19 is even better.
20 THE INTERPRETER: Could all the other microphones please be
21 switched off not being used at the moment. There is a lot of background
22 noise, thank you.
23 THE REGISTRAR: Could the counsel please indicate which page is
24 it, because we cannot locate it.
25 JUDGE ORIE: I think page 19 out of 28 in e-court, which is the
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1 witness acknowledgement. That's what you were seeking, Mr. Groome?
2 MR. GROOME: Yes, Your Honour.
3 Q. JF-039, we now have the acknowledgement page. Can you see your
4 signature on that page?
5 A. Yes.
6 Q. Is this the statement you provided to investigators of the Office
7 of the Prosecutor in 2003?
8 A. Yes.
9 Q. Did you have an opportunity to review this statement after you
10 arrived here in The Hague
11 A. Yes.
12 Q. And did you inform me with respect to a number of corrections and
13 clarifications you wished to make to this statement?
14 A. Yes.
15 Q. I am going to draw your attention to particular paragraphs and
16 ask you to make whatever clarifications or corrections you feel are
17 necessary to ensure that the statement is accurate.
18 MR. GROOME: Could we please go to paragraph 20 of the statement.
19 JUDGE ORIE: In English it starts on page 5 of 28, but only one
20 line, the remainder on page 6 out of 28.
21 Q. After you have read the line on this page, we will move to the
22 next page?
23 JUDGE ORIE: Could it be shown the witness in his own language.
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3 MR. GROOME: Could we advance to the next page, please, to the
4 rest of paragraph 20.
5 Q. Can I ask you to read the remainder of 20 and advise us with
6 respect to what clarifications or corrections you wish to make to this
7 paragraph?
8 JUDGE ORIE: Nevertheless, for the accused it would be good to
9 have the B/C/S version on our screens as well. And in B/C/S it's page 5
10 out of 17.
11 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I would like to change this part.
12 Perhaps I didn't understand but the statement -- I didn't mean it. I am
13 sorry, I lost the right-hand half of the screen.
14 MR. GROOME:
15 Q. JF-039, when you point on that screen, we are unable to see what
16 you are pointing at, so if you would please draw our attention by reading
17 the portion of the statement and then tell us what the correction should
18 be. We cannot see that either, so if you just indicate where you are
19 referring by just saying the words that you wish to change.
20 A. I would like to change this part where it says: "Martic (redacted)
21 (redacted) had asked Stanisic to send a unit of Special Police to Knin to
22 bring in weapons." That part. Because I did not --
23 Q. Please explain now the clarification you wish to make to that
24 portion?
25 A. [Interpretation] Martic was just expecting the weapons to arrive
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2 police station to welcome those people. He knew ahead of time that the
3 policemen at the police station --
4 THE INTERPRETER: Interpreter's note: Could the witness please
5 be asked to repeat the last part of his answer, we didn't understand.
6 MR. GROOME:
7 Q. JF-039, the interpreters did not hear the last portion of your
8 answer. Could you please repeat the last portion. Can you please sit
9 back in your chair, relax, and just speak in a normal voice into the
10 mikes in front of you, and then if you could repeat the last portion of
11 your answer, please.
12 A. Martic quite simply was expecting a delivery of weapons from
13 Serbia
14 Q. Now, can I draw your attention to paragraph 27. That will be
15 displayed for you. Can you read it and tell us what, if any, corrections
16 or clarifications you wish to make to paragraph 27.
17 A. In paragraph 27 I wish to correct the following: I probably got
18 the year wrong. Nevertheless, this is an error. It should be 1991 and
19 not 1992. So that is what I wish to correct.
20 Q. Just so that we are clear, the only date that I see in that
21 paragraph is 9th March, 1992
22 March, 1991?
23 A. Exactly.
24 Q. Is there anything else in this paragraph that you wish to correct
25 or clarify?
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1 A. There is another thing to clarify or correct. Stanisic asked him
2 for 150 men but Martic didn't have the amount of men available to him at
3 the time. He had maybe 50, 60, 70 at the very most. So 60 men were
4 finally off to Belgrade
5 Q. Are there any other changes to this paragraph?
6 A. No.
7 MR. GROOME: Could I ask that we now go to paragraph 38.
8 Q. And can you advise us whether you have any clarifications with
9 respect to this paragraph.
10 A. As for paragraph 38, there is a clarification that I wish to
11 make. There was no direct departure from Golubic camp for Korenica.
12 Part of the command centre was moved with some men to the fortress in
13 Knin.
14 Q. Just allowing those of us who only read English to read the
15 remainder of that paragraph. Are there any other corrections or
16 clarifications to paragraph 38?
17 A. No.
18 MR. JORDASH: Your Honour, may I ask Mr. Groome to clarify that
19 further because it's a change perhaps of some significance and it is not
20 exactly clear, to me at least, what that change means.
21 MR. GROOME: Yes, I'll do that.
22 Q. JF-039, could you explain in a little more detail what is the
23 change that you are making to paragraph 38? What is the new information
24 that you are providing with respect to that paragraph?
25 A. This is not new information, as a matter of fact. Some of the
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1 men along with the main command, if I can call it that, moved to the Knin
2 fortress. There was room there for maybe 20 or 30 men. At this point in
3 time the regular TO was on its way in, therefore, there is no huge
4 discrepancy because the command centre with Frenki and Captain Dragan
5 moved to the main command in the fortress, and some men were sent to
6 Udbina while some other men were sent to Korenica. They came there and
7 we later sent up a centre there.
8 MR. GROOME: Could I ask that we now go to paragraph 47.
9 Q. And if we can follow the same procedure, please read it and let
10 us know what, if any, corrections or clarifications you have?
11 MR. GROOME: If we could advance the English translation or
12 English original so that we see the remainder.
13 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Paragraph 47, when Golubic was
14 opened, Frenki decided to get an armoured train with four or five
15 couches -- coaches. He set that up and there was a unit numbering about
16 30 men at the beginning who he then trained.
17 MR. GROOME:
18 Q. Is there anything else you want to clarify with respect to this
19 paragraph?
20 A. When they finished altogether and the armoured train was
21 completed, they test drove it along the Gracac-Lovinac route during an
22 attack. Frenki took the armoured train from Gracac to Lovinac to the
23 right at a 90 degree angle in relation to Udbina. It was more in order
24 to intimidate people. It wasn't meant to help take that village. It was
25 more in terms of intimidating the local population and driving them to
Page 7202
1 leave the area.
2 Q. Can I take you to some of the last remaining paragraphs.
3 Paragraph 53. Can you read this paragraph and let us know what, if any,
4 clarification you wish to make?
5 A. Paragraph 53, I just wish to explain one thing. Afterwards, when
6 Martic had won the election, there were about 20 or 30 of us. He gave us
7 in shillings the remainder of the money that he had received for the
8 election. When I took that to the bank, it was about 1.400 German marks
9 altogether. I wasn't meaning here to be specific about the amount in
10 shilling. I don't know how that translates into the German currency, the
11 German mark.
12 So what I would like to change here is the figure 300.000. I
13 don't know really whether it was 300.000 or not. When I exchanged that
14 money, we all got more or less the same kind of money, about 1.400 German
15 marks.
16 Q. Now, can I draw with your attention to paragraph 54, and I
17 believe we only have to advance the B/C/S version. Is there a correction
18 you wish to make to that paragraph?
19 A. I can't see all of it. I'm not sure if it's the whole thing that
20 I'm looking at. There is one thing that I'd like to add.
21 (redacted) Chief of police, Knin, was name -- station commander was
22 Nikola Amanovic, A, Amanovic not Manovic. (redacted) It's not
23 Manovic, there's another letter that precedes the name, Amanovic.
24 Q. And is that the letter A?
25 A. That's right.
Page 7203
1 MR. GROOME: Now, the last two remaining clarifications I would
2 do in private session. Can I ask that we look at paragraph 5.
3 (redacted)
4 (redacted)
5 (redacted)
6 (redacted)
7 (redacted)
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9 (redacted)
10 (redacted)
11 (redacted)
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19 Q. Any other corrections or clarifications to this paragraph?
20 A. No.
21 MR. GROOME: Your Honours, at this point I would be asking to
22 move out of private session.
23 Q. JF-039, are these all of the corrections and clarifications you
24 wish to make to your statement?
25 A. Yes.
Page 7204
1 Q. If you were to be asked the same questions you were asked during
2 this interview, would you provide the same answers in substance along
3 with the clarifications and corrections?
4 A. Yes.
5 Q. Now that you have taken the solemn declaration, do you affirm the
6 accuracy and truthfulness of the information contained in this statement
7 along with your testimony about corrections and clarifications?
8 A. Yes, I do.
9 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, at this time the Prosecution will
10 tender 65 ter 5761 into evidence under seal.
11 JUDGE ORIE: Madam Registrar.
12 THE REGISTRAR: This would be Exhibit P978 under seal, Your
13 Honours.
14 JUDGE ORIE: P978 is admitted under seal.
15 MR. GROOME: Could I ask for the assistance of the usher in
16 distributing a document to the parties and to the Chamber. Your Honours,
17 at this time the Prosecution tenders all of the exhibits admitted as
18 evidence during JF-039's direct testimony in the prior proceeding.
19 Courtesy copies of a document enumerating these seven exhibits is now
20 being distributed. The 65 ter numbers for these exhibits are 2803 to
21 2808 and 5764.
22 JUDGE ORIE: We'll later invite Madam Registrar to assign numbers
23 to these exhibits. Are there any objections against admission? Then the
24 numbers to be announced later, these seven associated exhibits, are
25 admitted into evidence. We'll come back to that after the break.
Page 7205
1 Mr. Groome.
2 MR. GROOME:
3 Q. JF-039, I want to now ask you a few questions --
4 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Groome, I'm looking at the clock. We are
5 approximately 75 minutes underway and everyone is dying for moving to
6 another courtroom which will be available after the break. I, however,
7 have one or two small questions in relation to one of the specific
8 issues, one of the corrections, which I prefer to have clarified
9 immediately.
10 Witness, you made a correction about the money you got. I think
11 you said there were about 20 or 30 of you. Did you all get similar
12 amount of money in Austrian shillings?
13 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes.
14 JUDGE ORIE: And do I understand that you got 1.400 Deutschemarks
15 at the bank for the shillings you had received?
16 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes.
17 JUDGE ORIE: The total amount in Austrian shillings you
18 mentioned, and you said you do not know whether it's precise or not, is
19 that the money that you said was distributed among you?
20 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] No. Your Honour, it's not about
21 the money that we got, it's about the money that was left after the
22 election. Quite simply, this was some sort of reward for the job that we
23 had done for him during the pre-election campaign. It was some sort of
24 remuneration, you might say.
25 JUDGE ORIE: I see that point. But the total amount you
Page 7206
1 mentioned, I think in your first statement you were talking about 300.000
2 Austrian shillings, was that the money that was left over after the
3 election or was that the money that Mr. Martic had received for the
4 purposes of his election?
5 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] All of that is the overall sum that
6 Martic got for the election. Actually, I believe this requires an
7 explanation on my part. When Martic told us about the 300.000 shillings
8 that was what he got but that translates into German marks as 400.000
9 marks or even more, that's why I didn't give a specific figure, 300.000,
10 or anything at all. I don't know what it means in today's currency.
11 Could have been less or could have been more. I was just thinking it had
12 to be a lot of money. If I got what I got and there were 20 or 30 of us
13 who were there helping him with the election.
14 JUDGE ORIE: Yes, I'm raising this matter, I'm also addressing
15 the parties because the exchange rate at the time doesn't make a shilling
16 more worth than a Deutschemark. It was approximately as was more or less
17 also discussed in the previous testimony, it's 1 up to 7 approximately,
18 that means 7 shillings in 1 Deutschemark, that was approximately the
19 rather constant exchange rate for this money, so it's still a bit of a
20 puzzle to me where the mistake actually is made.
21 I try to clarify it because that would have been sense if that
22 was the remainder of the money because then everyone out of 30 men would
23 have received 10.000 and 10.000 Austrian shillings would equal
24 approximately 1.500 Deutschemarks. So I was just seeking whether that
25 could explain the matter, but apparently it does not. We'll have a break
Page 7207
1 and we will resume with all the protective measures in place at 4.00 in
2 Courtroom III
3 MR. JORDASH: Your Honours, sorry, may I request that we have the
4 full 30 minutes. Mr. Stanisic, I think, is flagging somewhat with the
5 heat and with some medicine he took today.
6 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. We'll then start at seven minutes past 4.00.
7 MR. JORDASH: I'm grateful.
8 --- Recess taken at 3.36 p.m.
9 --- On resuming at 4.15 p.m.
10 [Open session]
11 JUDGE ORIE: Before we continue, I'd like to remind the parties
12 that since we are now in open session, although with protective measures
13 of face distortion, voice distortion, and pseudonym, that if there's any
14 subject which might identify the witness, that you should ask for private
15 session.
16 Mr. Groome, are you ready to proceed?
17 MR. GROOME: Yes, thank you, Your Honour.
18 Q. JF-039, we now have voice distortion working in this courtroom,
19 so I would just remind you to be sure that you do not speak until you see
20 the red light on the microphone of the person asking you a question go
21 off. If the red light is on, you should not speak.
22 Now, my first question for you is, the Chamber has read your
23 statement and the testimony so there are no need for lengthy
24 explanations, but there are a few questions which I think may assist the
25 Chamber. And the first one is, can you give the Chamber some idea of how
Page 7208
1 long it takes to drive by car between Knin and Belgrade?
2 A. Well, usually it's six to seven hours of driving depending on how
3 busy the roads are, and later on that depended on whether the corridor
4 through Bosnia
5 Q. Now, at paragraph 43 of your statement, now P978, it states:
6 "Frenki established an officer structure for those who were in
7 training. Some of those who were inspectors in the police became
8 captains, then captains 1st class, and then major. They were made
9 commanders of the various PJM units and went back to the towns they had
10 originally come from."
11 My question to you is the following: Whether you know whether
12 the officer structure Frenki created was modelled along the lines of a
13 police officer structure or along the lines of a military structure?
14 A. The officer corps structure that Frenki set up was modelled along
15 the military structure because as far as I know in the police there used
16 to be titles such as inspector, and then perhaps inspector 1st class, and
17 others, but the military ranks are lieutenant, lieutenant 1st class, and
18 then captain, captain 1st class, and so on, so that these were modelled
19 along the lines of a military structure.
20 After captain 1st class, there would a major and then
21 lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and so on and so forth, so these are
22 military ranks.
23 Q. Thank you.
24 MR. GROOME: Now, can I ask that 65 ter 718 be brought to the
25 screens before us. It is an order issued on 16 June 1991.
Page 7209
1 Q. Now, while that's being called up before us, in paragraph 49 of
2 your statement you describe a time when Frenki and Captain Dragan were
3 moved by Stanisic to Golubic. Captain Dragan's command centre being
4 moved to the fortress in Knin. Do you know when this was? Before you
5 look at the document, from your own memory, are you able to tell us
6 approximately when the command centre was moved from Golubic to the
7 fortress in Knin?
8 A. The transformation began sometime in late May, or rather in June
9 or July.
10 MR. GROOME: I'm not sure if I'm the only person whose e-court is
11 not functioning, but I don't see the document on the screen. That's 65
12 ter 718.
13 JUDGE ORIE: There it is.
14 Q. Can I ask you to look at the screen before you and tell us
15 whether you recognise this document and do you know what it is referring
16 to?
17 A. Well, I've never seen this document before but I know what it is
18 about. This was the date when the Territorial Defence of the then
19 Yugoslav People's Army still was taking people in for training, and then
20 in late July they took over Golubic, and this happened at the same time
21 when the Main Staff and Frenki and Captain Dragan moved to the Knin
22 fortress, while a number of men were transferred to Udbina and to
23 Tito Korenica.
24 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, at this time the Prosecution would
25 tender this Exhibit from the bar table. I am able to provide information
Page 7210
1 about its provenance should there be an objection.
2 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Bakrac.
3 MR. BAKRAC: [Interpretation] Your Honour, the Simatovic Defence
4 objects to this document being admitted into evidence either via this
5 witness or from the bar table for two reasons. First of all, it's
6 obvious that this document was typed on two different type writers. In
7 our view the heading was typed on one typewriter, whereas the order and
8 the text below the word "order" was typed on a different typewriter.
9 That's number one. And number two, our client claims that this is not
10 his signature. This is a fake signature. He's never signed anything
11 with these initials.
12 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Groome, you offered more or less a further
13 explanation.
14 MR. GROOME: The document was provided to the OTP by
15 Stjepan Mesic, the president of Croatia
16 have no information with respect to where he obtained the document.
17 [Trial Chamber confers]
18 JUDGE ORIE: The Chamber will further consider the challenge to
19 the authenticity and for that reason we'll mark the document for
20 identification for the time being. Madam Registrar, the number would be?
21 THE REGISTRAR: This will be Exhibit P979 marked for
22 identification, Your Honours.
23 JUDGE ORIE: P979 will have that status for the time being.
24 Mr. Groome, you'll understand that a bit more information, I take it that
25 the president of Croatia
Page 7211
1 from the area, so it might be interesting to know where he got it from
2 and how he obtained it, and that may assist the Chamber in deciding on
3 admissibility of this document.
4 MR. GROOME: The Prosecution will seek that information, Your
5 Honours.
6 JUDGE ORIE: Please proceed.
7 MR. GROOME:
8 Q. Now, JF-039, without tell us here in public session how, can you
9 simply answer the question are you familiar with Milan Martic's
10 handwriting?
11 A. Yes.
12 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, I would ask that we go into private
13 session.
14 JUDGE ORIE: We move into private session.
15 [Private session]
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7 [Open session]
8 MR. GROOME: I would ask that 65 ter 4739, it's a document dated
9 7th of October, 1994, addressed to among others Slobodan Milosevic --
10 sorry.
11 THE REGISTRAR: We are in open session, Your Honours.
12 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you, Madam Registrar.
13 MR. GROOME: I apologise. I would ask that 65 ter 4739 be called
14 to our screens. It is a document dated the 7th of October, 1994
15 addressed to among others, Slobodan Milosevic and Momcilo Perisic. I
16 would ask that we show the witness the first page and then go to the last
17 page where there is a signature of someone.
18 Q. My question to you is going to be related to whether you
19 recognise the signature, so it's not critical that you examine or read
20 the entire document, but I do want you to see the date of the document
21 and its letterhead.
22 MR. GROOME: Can I ask that we go to the last page.
23 Q. We can now see the original on the left-hand side of our screens.
24 Do you recognise the signature on this document?
25 A. Yes, that is certainly Mr. Martic's signature.
Page 7214
1 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, at this time the Prosecution would
2 tender 4739. In discussions with the Defence before court, Mr. Jordash
3 indicated that he would not be objecting and Mr. Bakrac was still
4 contemplating, so I do not know what his position is at this moment.
5 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Bakrac.
6 MR. BAKRAC: [Interpretation] Your Honour, I apologise to
7 Mr. Groome, I just wanted to consult my client, but I can now say that we
8 have no objection, and I apologise to Mr. Groome for not advising him in
9 time.
10 JUDGE ORIE: Madam Registrar, the number would be?
11 THE REGISTRAR: This would be Exhibit P987, Your Honours.
12 JUDGE ORIE: P987 is admitted into evidence. For those who may
13 be surprised by the numbering, I add to it that for the seven associated
14 exhibits all to be admitted under seal as we found them on our list, and
15 I just list the 65 ter numbers, which is 2803 up to and including 2808
16 and 65 ter 5764, although not exactly in this sequence, they were
17 admitted before the break, but they needed numbers to be assigned to
18 them. The numbers are P980 up to and including P986. You can consult in
19 e-court which number relates to what 65 ter number.
20 Please proceed.
21 MR. GROOME: Could I now ask that we have 65 ter 5765. Your
22 Honours, this is a composite exhibit comprised of six greeting cards and
23 formally identified with 65 ter numbers 4740 through 4745.
24 Q. While that's being called to our screens, did you have an
25 opportunity yesterday to look at copies of greeting cards for the
Page 7215
1 Christmas New/Year season for New Year 1995?
2 A. Yes.
3 Q. Can I ask you to look at the first one of these on the screen and
4 do you recognise the signature at the bottom of that card?
5 A. Yes.
6 Q. Whose signature do you recognise it to be?
7 A. Milan Martic's signature.
8 Q. And who is this card addressed to?
9 A. To Mr. Radovan Karadzic at Pale.
10 MR. GROOME: Can I ask that we turn to page 2 in both the English
11 and the B/C/S.
12 Q. And again I ask you, do you recognise the signature at the bottom
13 of this greeting card?
14 JUDGE ORIE: We have to wait to be on the screen before we ...
15 Next page on the ...
16 [Trial Chamber and Registrar confer]
17 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Groome, I'm informed that the uploaded 65 ter
18 number is only one page.
19 MR. GROOME: I'll move on, Your Honour. Hopefully we'll correct
20 that before the end of our examination.
21 JUDGE ORIE: Yes.
22 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, I would note that in discussions with
23 both Defence counsel, neither Defence counsel objects to the admission of
24 the six greeting cards, so perhaps -- well, I recognise that I do have to
25 get that exhibit together before the Chamber can admit anything.
Page 7216
1 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. We cannot admit any material, but you could
2 save questions like to whom it is addressed, because the Chamber being
3 able to read is not surprised by the answer that it was addressed to
4 Mr. Karadzic.
5 MR. GROOME: Could I ask that 65 ter 4278, a document with the
6 reference number 112249890 dated the 30th of May, 1990, I ask that that
7 be called to the screen.
8 Q. And while that is being done, JF-039, do you know a person by the
9 name of Milan Tepavcevic?
10 A. I think it's Milan Davcevic, or rather, I think it's Milan
11 Tepavcevic. And if that is the name, he was one of the bosses in the
12 state security of Serbia
13 repairs, car repairs and fuel, vehicle fuel and so on.
14 Q. The document is now on the screen before us. Is this the person
15 you are now giving evidence about?
16 A. I think so. Yes, it is Milan Tepavcevic. Well, I really know
17 him as Tepo because usually that's how we would call him. Usually when I
18 was sent to see him, I would be told to go see Tepo.
19 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, at this time the Prosecution tenders
20 this exhibit from the bar table. I note that there is no objection from
21 either the Stanisic or Simatovic Defence.
22 JUDGE ORIE: Madam Registrar, the number would be?
23 THE REGISTRAR: This would be Exhibit P988, Your Honours.
24 JUDGE ORIE: P988 is admitted into evidence. No need to have it
25 admitted under seal?
Page 7217
1 MR. GROOME: No, Your Honour.
2 JUDGE ORIE: Please proceed.
3 MR. GROOME: Your Honours, at this time I would ask that a
4 portion of a video identified as 65 ter 1933 be played for the witness.
5 The clip which I will refer to as 1933.1 is from 3 hours 12 minutes 50
6 seconds to 3 hours 16 minutes 1 second of the original full exhibit. For
7 our colleagues in the interpretation booths, a transcript of this is
8 before you marked as clip 1.
9 Q. JF-039, I would ask you to look at this video on the screen and I
10 will ask you some questions afterward.
11 JUDGE ORIE: Can be played publicly, Mr. Groome.
12 MR. GROOME: Yes, Your Honour.
13 [Video-clip played]
14 THE INTERPRETER: [Voiceover] "... for the freedom of the
15 fatherland fighting against the enemy on the Miljevac plateau,
16 Deputy Minister Nebojsa Pavkovic laid a wreath at the monument to the
17 Serbian hero before the Ministry of the Interior. Addressing members of
18 the Special Police Brigade, President Martic said:
19 "'No one has the right to stop halfway and wonder whether things
20 could be different, whether there's a chance of living together with
21 those who do evil to us. That clearly is not possible. The Ustashas
22 have clearly shown in western Slavonia
23 Serbian people. All they want is Serbian ethnic territory.
24 Ante Starcevic's plan to kill one-third of the Serbians, assimilate
25 another third, and drive out the last third has never been given up on,
Page 7218
1 and it applies to all parties whether they call themselves left or right
2 wing. And for this reason we know one thing only, we are impatient, no
3 peaceful alternative is before us. We have no peaceful alternative. We
4 face slavery and uncertainty for our lives, or a struggle for freedom.
5 And concerning that choice, I've made a clear choice, we must go to the
6 end and that is the struggle for freedom.
7 "'I'm convinced of one thing, that the Croats are a nemesis and
8 the Muslims have never in history been better warriors than us Serbs.
9 We've had our legendary heros throughout history from Obilic to
10 Medakovic, Rasula, Kotoras, Markos, and others of today to name just a
11 few. These are all your fellow warriors. We have our heros. The Croats
12 have never had that and the Muslims least of all. I am therefore
13 convinced that we have the strength and therefore we must have the
14 strength successfully to complete our struggle, our honourable struggle
15 for freedom, our struggle for the survival of our children in these
16 parts, and we must show that these evil doers that these areas which are
17 ethnically Serbian will remain some.
18 "'I'm convinced seeing you all here today, I know almost all of
19 you, and many, most of you, are the same ones who have set off here from
20 Golubic on the 17th of August, 1990, that you will not forget the oath
21 you swore then: We shall fight, never again in Croatia. We have to
22 think of one thing only and that is to defends ourselves, to be
23 militarily strong and capable.'
24 "Repeating the position that the Republic of Serbian Krajina
25 never be part of Croatia
Page 7219
1 conviction that the Serbian people has the strength to bring their
2 honourable struggle for survival to a successful conclusion and show the
3 evil doers that the Republic of Serbian Krajina was and will remain
4 ethnically Serbian. 'You have not let me down so far and I believe that
5 you won't,' the president of the Republic of Serbian Krajina,
6 Milan Martic, told members of the Special Police Brigade. The commander
7 of the Serbian army of the Krajina, General Mile Mrksic, also addressed
8 members of the Special Police brigade and wished them success in future
9 work."
10 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, so the record is clear ... Your
11 Honours, so the record is clear, the words up until "strong and capable"
12 were spoken by Mr. Martic, and the words beginning "repeating the
13 position" were spoken by the reporter, that's not at this moment
14 reflected in the transcript.
15 Q. Now, JF-039, can I ask you, did you recognise where this video
16 was taken?
17 A. Yes, in Golubic, at the training centre. The youth settlement in
18 Golubic, the same place.
19 Q. There is what appears to be a memorial to someone at the camp.
20 Mr. Laugel is showing a still image from the 11th second of the tape.
21 When you see it, are you familiar with this memorial? Sorry we don't
22 have that still. Do you recall at the beginning of the tape there seemed
23 to be some monument that people were paying homage to. Are you familiar
24 with that monument, and if you are, can you describe what it is?
25 A. It's a bust erected in honour of Sasa Medakovic, also known as
Page 7220
1 Sale
2 south of Drnis.
3 Q. And do you know who is the person that is laying something at the
4 foot of that monument?
5 A. The person in blue is the assistant minister of the interior,
6 Nebojsa Pavkovic.
7 Q. At the 26th second of this tape we see some Cyrillic writing on
8 the wall behind Mr. Martic. Mr. Laugel is now going to display a still
9 of that frame of the tape. Okay. We can now see it on our screen. The
10 writing behind the men that we see on the screen now, again this is the
11 26th second, what is the significance of that writing?
12 A. As far as I know, the 5th of July, the day that the Knin
13 policemen signed a petition to the effect they would not serve the state
14 of Croatia
15 or the police day.
16 Q. The three men that we see standing behind Mr. Milan Martic. Do
17 you know who they are, and if do you, can you tell us their names moving
18 from the person on our left and then moving to the right?
19 A. First person to the left is the assistant minister of the
20 interior, Nebojsa Pavkovic. In the middle, the then commander
21 Milan
22 lieutenant-colonel, the man's name is Stupar. He then took an exam to
23 obtain a higher rank, as far as I know, subsequently at the military
24 training-ground in Slunj.
25 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, at this time the Prosecution tenders 65
Page 7221
1 ter 1933.1 as a public exhibit.
2 JUDGE ORIE: Madam Registrar, the number would be?
3 THE REGISTRAR: This would be Exhibit P989, Your Honours.
4 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Jordash.
5 MR. JORDASH: Sorry, Your Honours, the problem we have with this
6 is unless I've missed a proofing note, I'm not aware that I have, we were
7 not put on notice that this evidence was going to be led in this way, so
8 I don't know how I'm expected to take instructions on this between now
9 and tomorrow morning when we or between now and cross-examination. The
10 last -- well, the last ten minutes of evidence have all been somewhat a
11 surprise. We knew the Prosecution was going to use the video, but
12 clearly the Prosecution were aware of what questions they wanted to ask
13 the witness and what the witness could say about the video. We were not.
14 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Groome.
15 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, the Prosecution has given notice that
16 we would use this video for some time. I'm not aware of any requirement
17 that everything that a witness is going to say, and he is just
18 identifying some people, he is reading some Cyrillic off a wall, I'm not
19 sure that I see anything that requires advanced notice. There were some
20 topics that the new information the witness did provide and that was
21 provided in a proofing note as soon as the Prosecution had it, but I have
22 difficulty understanding what about this evidence is unfair to lead it.
23 MR. JORDASH: Sorry, Your Honours. I've got no idea whether what
24 the witness has said is correct or not and no way of checking that before
25 I stand up and cross-examine in about 15 minute's time.
Page 7222
1 [Trial Chamber confers]
2 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Jordash, if the Prosecution announces that it
3 will play a video, of course what one would expect the questions to the
4 witness to be is primarily what first of all what you see on the video.
5 Well, I would say 90 per cent of the questions were about what you see on
6 the video, who is this, who is that, where is it, these kind of
7 questions. If you need more time to consult with Mr. Stanisic to verify,
8 and it seems all to be relatively simple whether this is a monument,
9 whether this is Golubic, whether this person is, but if you need more
10 time, then first of all, I'm perhaps a bit surprised, but then just ask
11 for more time and explain what exactly it is that you need to further
12 explore before you can cross-examine the witness.
13 Please proceed, Mr. Groome.
14 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, my transcript has gone by, I don't know
15 whether the Chamber has admitted the exhibit at this stage.
16 JUDGE ORIE: We have not as a matter of fact because after I
17 invited Madam Registrar to assign a number, I saw Mr. Jordash on his feet
18 and therefore Mr. Jordash your objection was not primarily against
19 admissibility but rather on insufficient notice to prepare for
20 cross-examination.
21 MR. JORDASH: Your Honour, yes.
22 JUDGE ORIE: Then P989 is admitted into evidence. Please
23 proceed.
24 MR. GROOME: Your Honours, at this time I would ask P12 in
25 evidence to be played for the witness. A transcript of this is in the
Page 7223
1 interpretation booths and marked as clip number 2.
2 [Video-clip played]
3 THE INTERPRETER: [Voiceover] "... in Krajina celebrating the day
4 of security. On this day, three years ago, the first large gathering of
5 people and mass protests against the Croatian leadership took place in
6 Knin. The result of those events was a petition signed by the policemen
7 of the then Knin public security station refusing to obey the pro-Ustasha
8 authorities in Zagreb
9 Ustashas 50 years ago while committing genocide against the Serbian
10 people. The central celebration took place in Knin.
11 "Milan Martic, minister of the interior, spoke at the formal
12 events stressing at the end of his speech that the checkerboard flag can
13 be in Knin only over our dead bodies. Among other speakers addressing
14 the gathering were Goran Hadzic, president of the Republic of Serbian
15 Krajina, and Milan Babic, president of the Knin Municipal Assembly.
16 "'On the occasion of the day of security of the Republic of
17 Serbian Krajina, there were issued the Serbian rebellions and uprisings
18 decorations, medals for courage and certificates of gratitude issued,
19 among others, to the Belgrade
20 novosti daily."
21 MR. GROOME:
22 Q. JF-039, did you recognise some of the people that were depicted
23 in that video? And it's not necessary that you mention the names at this
24 stage, but just let us know that you recognise some of the people?
25 A. Yes.
Page 7224
1 MR. GROOME: Could I ask that 65 ter 5766 be called to our
2 screens. It is an exhibit comprised of four stills from P12 annotated to
3 assist the witness in identifying different participants in these
4 proceedings. I would ask that the first page be called up on to our
5 screens.
6 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Number one is the former prime
7 minister, Jaco Bijelic, number to two is Milan Martic, number three is
8 Milan Babic, number four is Milan
9 THE INTERPRETER: The interpreters can't hear the witness.
10 MR. GROOME: If I could ask you just to sit in your chair, it
11 seems we are having a technical problem at the moment.
12 JUDGE ORIE: Yes, there are some screens, I see a few of them
13 around, with clear numbers and still on it, but others have not yet. Let
14 me see whether -- yes. I think meanwhile everyone has the picture in
15 front of him or her.
16 Mr. Jordash.
17 MR. JORDASH: Yes, we do now, thank you.
18 JUDGE ORIE: Then could you please repeat the question and could
19 we ask the witness to identify the persons by their numbers.
20 MR. GROOME:
21 Q. JF-039, can I ask you if you need to move around to see the
22 monitor, then do that. But then return to your position in front of the
23 mike when you identify who each of the people that you recognise and if
24 you refer to them by the number that have been superimposed on their
25 image?
Page 7225
1 A. Number 1, Djogo Bjegovic, former prime minister, Milan Martic,
2 Babic.
3 Q. I'm sorry. Maybe if we do it this way, do you recognise the
4 person with number 2 and if you do, tell us his name?
5 A. Yes, Milan
6 Q. Do you recognise the person with 3 on their image?
7 A. Yes, Milan
8 Q. How about number 4?
9 A. Jovica Stanisic.
10 Q. How about number 5?
11 A. Milan
12 Q. And how about number 6?
13 A. Rade Kostic.
14 MR. GROOME: Now, this was the first page of 65 ter 5766 and it
15 is from the 20th second of video-clip P12. I'm going ask that we go to
16 page 2 of 5766. It is the 25th second of P12.
17 Q. Again, can you look at the image, and then I will ask you to
18 identify any people that you may recognise.
19 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Groome, is there any dispute about the identity
20 of the persons you are showing on the screen among the parties? I really
21 have difficulties in even thinking about that one would not agree on
22 Mr. Martic or -- I mean, we are asking the witness to identify persons,
23 that makes sense if there's any dispute about who they are, otherwise you
24 just agree on that and put it to the Chamber.
25 MR. GROOME: Well, without saying too much in front of the
Page 7226
1 witness, Your Honour, I think the credibility of the witness will be
2 attacked, and I think -- to the extent -- I mean, clearly the well known
3 people that are in this picture are not very helpful, but there are a
4 couple of people --
5 JUDGE ORIE: Okay. If there's any -- I was a bit surprised by
6 the first series, but we have now four others before us on this still.
7 Yes.
8 MR. GROOME:
9 Q. Do you recognise any of the people here, and if you could tell us
10 which people by saying the number that's imposed on their image and then
11 tell us their name and their position?
12 A. Number 1 then Colonel Borislav Djukic. Number 2, assistant
13 minister of the interior for finances, Nikola Rastovic. Number 3,
14 Serbian priest from Strmica, I don't know his name. Number 4, Priest
15 Branko Milinkovic from Golubic.
16 MR. GROOME: Can we now look at page 3 of this exhibit. This is
17 a still from the 50th second of P12.
18 Q. This particular image has four numbers on it. Can I ask you if
19 you recognise anyone to state the number and the person you recognise?
20 A. Number 1, Dr. Milan Babic, number 2, Jovica Stanisic, number 3,
21 Goran Hadzic, and I can't see number 4 clearly.
22 MR. GROOME: And finally page 4, it is the 55th second of P12.
23 Q. Do you recognise these people?
24 A. Number 1, Stojan Zupljanin, number 2 I can't see the face. It's
25 blurry. I can't see the features.
Page 7227
1 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, at this time the Prosecution tenders
2 5766 as a public exhibit.
3 JUDGE ORIE: No objections. Madam Registrar.
4 THE REGISTRAR: This will be Exhibit P990, Your Honours.
5 JUDGE ORIE: P990 is admitted into evidence. Please proceed.
6 MR. GROOME:
7 Q. JF-039, I have one more video I would like you to view.
8 MR. GROOME: Your Honours, the Prosecution asks that a 4-minute
9 portion of a video identified as 65 ter 4527.1 be played for the witness.
10 It is 52 minutes and 30 seconds to 56 seconds and 6 seconds of the entire
11 Exhibit. A copy of the transcript is in the booths noted as clip 3.
12 JUDGE ORIE: Yes, and you misspoke when you said 56 seconds. 56
13 minutes you meant.
14 MR. GROOME: Yes, Your Honour. Thank you.
15 JUDGE ORIE: Please proceed.
16 [Video-clip played]
17 THE INTERPRETER: [Voiceover] "Department for special purposes of
18 the Knin SUP is not some illegal formation, and they are particularly
19 angry when Croatian and some other information media call them Chetniks.
20 Their founder has agreed to talk about the units. Their intentions and
21 up to date operations which are like the one that is going to happen,
22 called Operation Wasp. It is interesting that he will hide nothing from
23 journalists but his identity. As far as the journalists and members of
24 the units are concerned, he is just Captain Dragan. Other unit
25 commanders will also be referred to under pseudonyms.
Page 7228
1 "Captain Dragan: 'Well Operation Wasp will last until the last
2 Croatian soldier or member of MUP or whatever they are called is present
3 in the territory of the SAO Krajina. Our task is to clean SAO Krajina of
4 those forces and we are doing a great job there. We are a special unit
5 under the SAO Krajina milicija command. Some people call us the Serbian
6 army, but it's what ordinary people call us. Believe me, we are not
7 Serbian army. We have our army and it's the JNA. And as long as the JNA
8 exists, we will not be the army.'
9 "Journalist: 'Information received from the SUP of Knin is that
10 the training is going on -- is that training is going on at 15 locations
11 and the number of members of Bosanska Krajina, milicija, in the training
12 camps is growing larger. The most convenient training camp for the
13 cameras is the one located at the premises of Golubic settlement, which
14 is the place where all this began.
15 "'We attended an exercise of regularly uniformed young men, girls
16 who are also here in large numbers were not at the training-ground this
17 afternoon. We did not notice that any of these young men were unshaved
18 on that morning or looked like a Chetnik. They are used to attacks by
19 Croatian leaders and media, but still it annoys them, this epithet
20 Chetniks, and every one of them will say it in front of journalists.'
21 "Captain Kalinic: 'They are people who are mostly farmers,
22 peasants, workers, or simply people who came here to defend their homes,
23 their houses, wives and children. That's why it should be clear to
24 anyone that such morale born from such a defence must be huge so as are
25 the motives driving a man in such a short period of time to learn and
Page 7229
1 fulfill such big matters, wishes, and ambitions.'
2 "Captain Vuckovic: 'I arrived here in September last year after
3 being a member of the intervention unit of Knin, which was the only
4 special force existing in Krajina. I was its member. I can tell you
5 that we had lots of problems. We were poorly armed, poorly equipped and
6 trained, which is opposite to what we are now. So we had many problems
7 with the people there coming to us saying they were attacked here and
8 there and we were almost helpless. But it is totally different now.'
9 "Journalist: 'In August last year Krajina started its defence by
10 placing trees across roads and by hunter guns. Hunting rifles. Now the
11 core of its Defence is organised to resist the attack that is being
12 announced these days at every press conference in Zagreb and in every
13 statement by Croatian leaders. Relations between the defenders have been
14 defined with a clear subordination, on top of which is Captain Dragan, a
15 cadet of the world's most popular schools and participants of many
16 contemporary wars.'"
17 MR. GROOME:
18 Q. Do you recognise the location that we see at the beginning of
19 this videotape?
20 A. Yes, that is Golubic.
21 MR. GROOME: Going to ask for Mr. Laugel to display the 22nd -- a
22 still from the 22nd second of this clip.
23 Q. The people on the left and right of Captain Dragan identify
24 themselves. My question to you is simply, did you personally know both
25 of these men?
Page 7230
1 A. Yes.
2 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, at this time the Prosecution tenders
3 video-clip 4527.1 into evidence as a public exhibit.
4 JUDGE ORIE: Madam Registrar, the number would be?
5 THE REGISTRAR: This would be Exhibit P991, Your Honours.
6 JUDGE ORIE: P991 is admitted into evidence.
7 MR. GROOME: Your Honours, at this time the Prosecution calls to
8 the screen 65 ter 482. It's a document dated the 8th of November, 1991
9 and signed by Captain Dragan. Your Honours, the Prosecution tenders this
10 exhibit from the bar and it is a one-page document signed by
11 Captain Dragan where he is seeking to define his status.
12 The Stanisic Defence informs me that there will be no objection
13 and Mr. Bakrac wanted to discuss it with Mr. Simatovic. I do have
14 information about its provenance should there be an objection.
15 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Bakrac, objections or not?
16 MR. BAKRAC: [Interpretation] Your Honours, we do have an
17 objection. There is a portion of this document with Captain Dragan, a
18 typewritten there name, but there is no apparent signature, or at least
19 its entirely illegible, therefore if Mr. Groome could please provide a
20 provenance for this document, we would be more than grateful.
21 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Groome, I don't have it yet on my screen, but
22 that's not true for all the screens in this courtroom. Yes, I have it by
23 now, could you further explain the provenance of this document.
24 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, the document was given to a member of
25 OTP staff on the 28th of March, 2003. The witness is a protected
Page 7231
1 witness, a C-28 in another proceeding. If we go into private session and
2 the Chamber directs me to, I can provide the name of the person and the
3 circumstances under which they obtained it.
4 JUDGE ORIE: Let's see whether Mr. Bakrac after this first part
5 of the explanation still has objections. If so, then we'll move into
6 private session. Still objecting?
7 MR. BAKRAC: [Interpretation] Your Honours, we are still
8 objecting.
9 JUDGE ORIE: We move into private session.
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23 THE REGISTRAR: We are in open session, Your Honours.
24 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you, Madam Registrar. No number has yet been
25 assigned. The number would be, Madam Registrar?
Page 7233
1 THE REGISTRAR: 482 becomes Exhibit P992, Your Honours.
2 JUDGE ORIE: P992 is admitted into evidence. You may proceed.
3 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, just so the record is clear, there's no
4 need for that to be under seal.
5 Your Honour, I have no further questions of the witness, but
6 before I conclude my direct examination, the Prosecution tenders from the
7 bar two contemporaneous media reports by the Tanjug news agency in
8 Belgrade
9 3rd April, 1991
10 expresses his conviction that Slobodan Milosevic will arm the Serbs in
11 the Krajina.
12 The second is 65 ter 1922. It is a report dated the 26th of
13 July, 1991, and reports that combat in the Krajina -- there is combat in
14 the Krajina in which civilians of both Serb and Croat ethnicity have been
15 the target of attacks. There are no objections from either the Stanisic
16 or Simatovic Defence. So the Prosecution tenders both of those exhibits.
17 JUDGE ORIE: Madam Registrar, 65 ter 1920 would be?
18 THE REGISTRAR: Exhibit P993, Your Honours.
19 JUDGE ORIE: And is admitted into evidence. The next one is 65
20 ter 1922, that would be?
21 THE REGISTRAR: Exhibit P994, Your Honours.
22 JUDGE ORIE: P994 is also admitted into evidence. Mr. Groome, I
23 was informed that what you announced to be a four-page document,
24 65 ter 5765, is now uploaded on to e-court. We saw the good wishes to
25 Mr. Karadzic. Do you want to further address the other pages?
Page 7234
1 MR. GROOME: I would ask that the second page of that document be
2 shown to the witness.
3 Q. Who is the second greeting card addressed to?
4 A. To Jovica Stanisic. The chief of state security of Serbia.
5 MR. GROOME: Your Honour, at this time the Prosecution tenders 65
6 ter 5765 as a public exhibit.
7 JUDGE ORIE: Is it now a two-page document or a four-page
8 document?
9 MR. GROOME: Mr. Laugel informs me that it's a -- that he can
10 verify that it's a four-page document. I'm not sure if this --
11 JUDGE ORIE: Four pages of which we've seen two, the other two
12 are similar.
13 MR. GROOME: Your Honour --
14 JUDGE ORIE: And you leave it to the Chamber to read to whom they
15 are addressed which we are certainly able to do, if it's similar.
16 [Trial Chamber and Registrar confer]
17 JUDGE ORIE: Madam Registrar counted six pages. Apparently to
18 include what used to be 65 ter 4740 up to and including 4754.
19 MR. GROOME: I misspoke, Your Honour, it is indeed six pages.
20 JUDGE ORIE: Are they all similar?
21 MR. GROOME: They are all the same, Your Honour, and the other
22 addressees that have not been mentioned are Lilic, Milosevic, Bulatovic,
23 and Mr. Krajisnik.
24 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you. No objections? Then the new 65 ter
25 5765, six cards or six letters wishing the best for 1995 receive number?
Page 7235
1 THE REGISTRAR: This would be Exhibit P995, Your Honours.
2 JUDGE ORIE: P995 is admitted into evidence.
3 MR. GROOME: No further questions at this time, Your Honour.
4 JUDGE ORIE: No further questions.
5 Then I suggest that we take the break now and, will it be you,
6 Mr. Jordash, who will be the first to cross-examine the witness?
7 MR. JORDASH: Your Honour, yes.
8 JUDGE ORIE: Witness JF-039, we'll have a break and we resume
9 at -- would 25 minutes do or would you insist on the? 25 will do, I see
10 at least nodding, Mr. Stanisic, yes. We'll resume at a quarter to 6.00.
11 --- Recess taken at 5.21 p.m.
12 --- On resuming at 5.47 p.m.
13 JUDGE ORIE: Witness JF-039, you'll now be cross-examined by
14 Mr. Jordash. Mr. Jordash is counsel for Mr. Stanisic.
15 Mr. Jordash, please proceed.
16 MR. JORDASH: Thank you, Your Honour.
17 Cross-examination by Mr. Jordash:
18 Q. Good afternoon, Mr. Witness. I still didn't get a translation of
19 anything.
20 THE INTERPRETER: Interpreters could not hear the witness.
21 MR. JORDASH: That's my fault, sorry.
22 Q. Could you repeat what you just said, the translator didn't pick
23 up your voice?
24 A. Good afternoon.
25 Q. Now, I want to take you straight to Golubic. You, is this right,
Page 7236
1 worked at Golubic, helping to get it ready for the first --
2 MR. GROOME: I appreciate Mr. Jordash's caution. I don't think
3 that we've crossed -- anything more specific than that I think might
4 cause a problem and should be in private session.
5 MR. JORDASH: Perhaps we should go into private session, please.
6 JUDGE ORIE: We move into private session.
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11 THE REGISTRAR: We are in open session, Your Honours.
12 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you, Madam Registrar.
13 MR. JORDASH:
14 Q. Let me repeat the question. How many men first appeared and
15 began training in May of 1991?
16 A. Well, there wasn't an exact figure. I can't really tell you any
17 exact figure because the number varied from one day to the next. Some
18 people would just give up, some people stole things and then disappeared.
19 Some left two or three days after they had first come, so there could be
20 10 to 20 men, fewer or more men between one day and the next, so the
21 training did not begin on any particular date and that's not how it
22 worked. There were times when there were no men, that no one reported to
23 go through training. I mean, this is difficult to describe, but it would
24 depend on the situation on the ground.
25 Q. Well, let's try and break this down. How many instructors were
Page 7240
1 there in May to take charge of the first recruits?
2 A. I think it would be fair to say that there were between four to
3 seven instructors.
4 Q. Were the recruits in May trained in one group or several groups?
5 A. There were several groups.
6 Q. How many groups?
7 A. That depended on how many men there were. For example, there was
8 a platoon that numbered ten men.
9 Q. I want you, if you can, to cast your mind and picture what was
10 going on in Golubic in May. Now, I understand, and the Court I think
11 understands, that the situation was somewhat fluctuating, but when the
12 training began, you must be able to give an approximate number of the men
13 who were there when that first important training began, no?
14 A. Well, I cannot give you any specific figure, but I can give you
15 some examples. For example, Lieutenant Calic had a platoon of ten men.
16 Q. Well, can you give --
17 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Jordash, could we -- could you tell us, try to
18 focus on what Mr. Jordash asked you. Were there -- when the first
19 training started were there 30 men, were there 60 men, were there 100 men
20 approximately? I'm not asking you to say it was 58 or 62, but was there
21 approximately 30 or approximately 150, or could you give us any
22 impression about how many people were there when the training really
23 started in May.
24 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] On average a platoon should number
25 between 20 and 30 men which would mean that in a total there should be
Page 7241
1 around 150 men.
2 MR. JORDASH:
3 Q. And that first bunch of recruits, give or take those who left and
4 joined in May, were trained for how long?
5 A. I think that the first bunch stayed there for three weeks.
6 Q. And so after that first three weeks there was a set of new
7 recruits for a new round of training; correct?
8 A. Well, not quite because some of the men who were in the first
9 group stayed on as instructors, whereas some remained in the units
10 themselves.
11 Q. How many men stayed on as instructors?
12 A. I think it would be fair to say that around ten.
13 Q. And the remainder returned to their police units from where they
14 had originated?
15 A. Yes.
16 Q. And apart from the ten then who remained, there was a whole set
17 of new recruits arrived at the -- to begin a new set of training; is that
18 right?
19 A. Yes.
20 Q. How many approximately?
21 A. Around 100 to 150 actually signed up.
22 Q. Did they go through a three-week training course as per the first
23 group?
24 A. At the time when the second group arrived, I believe the regular
25 Territorial Defence members began to join up.
Page 7242
1 Q. And what happened as a consequence of that, if anything?
2 A. Well, as a consequence of that in late May there was a major
3 altercation between Frenki who wanted to command all those men and the
4 TO, which is why the staff was moved to the fortress.
5 Q. To avoid Frenki being able to command those men who were regular
6 TO members; is that correct?
7 A. Yes. Well, no, not just that. There was a conflict between
8 those officers who were appointed by Captain Dragan or Frenki.
9 Q. Which officers who were appointed by Captain Dragan had a
10 conflict and who did they have a conflict with?
11 A. The officers were, as far as I can recall, Srecko Kalinic from
12 Obrovac, Mile Cvijanovic from the Knin SUP. The first was -- he began as
13 the 2nd lieutenant and then he was promoted lieutenant.
14 Dragan Karan [as interpreted] was appointed captain and then a month or
15 so later he was promoted to major. Now, the people they were in conflict
16 with were some of the command structures from the TO who could not
17 support that. One of them was the 2nd lieutenant, the TO commander --
18 THE INTERPRETER: The interpreter did not catch the name.
19 MR. JORDASH:
20 Q. What was the 2nd lieutenant TO commander, the name, please, could
21 you repeat that?
22 A. I think he was actually a lieutenant-colonel, Milan Dragisic. He
23 was a legal TO commander under the old laws and regulations of the
24 Yugoslav People's Army, before August of 1990 in other words.
25 Q. Did you say just Dragan Karan or --
Page 7243
1 A. Karna, K-a-r-n-a.
2 Q. Thank you. So we'll come back to this detail shortly, but is the
3 summary of what you've just said, is that the TO -- members of the
4 regular TO began to join Golubic after the first set of recruits and
5 because Frenki wanted to command them, Martic moved to the fortress so
6 that Frenki could not?
7 A. No, my apologies. Martic did not move the TO. The first person
8 to be transferred or the first group that was transferred was the command
9 headed by Frenki. So Captain Dragan and Frenki were transferred and then
10 later on they were -- they joined under the command of the TO commander,
11 Milan
12 Q. Let's just go back because I'm confused. I'm sure it's me but
13 let's go back. TO -- regular TO members came to Golubic to be trained.
14 Were they trained at Golubic, yes or no?
15 A. Maybe some of them were, I don't know. Because the TO members
16 were on average elder men, the reserve corps, the reserve forces of the
17 TO were for the most part older men over 40 years of age, but that was
18 not as a rule. I mean, some of them could be younger, but most of them
19 were older men.
20 Q. I think maybe some of them or I don't know would have sufficed
21 for that answer. Could we try to keep the answers short, please.
22 Who was trained after the first recruits? After the third week
23 who was trained at Golubic, if anyone?
24 A. My apologies, I didn't say I don't know. I said I don't know,
25 maybe some of them were younger than 40 years of age, but I don't know
Page 7244
1 about that. So I was referring to the age of these people because the TO
2 for the most part consisted of older people, older men.
3 Q. Let me just try again with the question. Do you know who was
4 trained at Golubic after the first group left after the first three
5 weeks? Please answer yes or no.
6 JUDGE ORIE: A who question is difficult to answer by yes or no.
7 MR. JORDASH: Sorry, Your Honour.
8 JUDGE ORIE: If you ask who was there, then to say yes or no
9 couldn't really give an answer.
10 MR. JORDASH: I said do you know who was trained at Golubic.
11 JUDGE ORIE: Oh, yes. Yes, then I see that. I was commenting
12 too quickly. Witness, could you answer the question, do you know who
13 were trained after that first group? After the first three weeks, the
14 next group that arrived.
15 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Your Honour, my apologies, but I'm
16 confused by the word "who." Do you mean should I give names? I really
17 don't understand the question. To me "who" seems like you are asking me
18 about the names of the people who went through training.
19 JUDGE ORIE: I thought that Mr. Jordash would like to know
20 whether these were regular TO members or how would you qualify them?
21 Second group.
22 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] The first group were mainly
23 volunteers, people who wanted to go through training, that was their
24 choice and they joined. In the second group there were some volunteers.
25 But there was not a sufficient number to fill up all the positions, but
Page 7245
1 at that time there was open co-operation between the army and the TO of
2 Krajina, or rather, the Knin TO at the time ordered that TO men - and
3 most of these were people who belonged to the logistics unit and
4 technical units, they ordered them to go to Golubic.
5 JUDGE ORIE: Could I now try to see what your answer is. Your
6 answer was the second group consisted of a small number of volunteers,
7 but mainly were regular TO members. Is that your answer?
8 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Essentially yes. I think over 50
9 per cent were volunteers. The TO had maybe 200 or 300 men which
10 constituted a huge majority later on. It's difficult to be specific
11 about the time-period because this all took perhaps a month, month and a
12 half, up to two months. It was one man to begin with and then suddenly
13 it was 300 or 400 men.
14 JUDGE ORIE: Just to fully understand, it started with mainly
15 volunteers and then in the next group a large number of TO members joined
16 and that the composition changed after that again?
17 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes.
18 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Jordash, I tried to assist.
19 MR. JORDASH: Your Honour, thank you.
20 Q. Did the second training take three weeks?
21 A. I think between two and three weeks.
22 Q. And just so I'm clear, how many men completed that training, the
23 second training, approximately?
24 A. [In English] Maybe a hundred, maybe less, a couple hundred.
25 Q. Was there a third round of training after they had -- the 100
Page 7246
1 completed?
2 A. [Interpretation] I really don't know how to answer this question.
3 I didn't keep any records as to how many rounds of training there were
4 and how many people circulated inside and outside. Anyway, the overall
5 time-frame was about two months.
6 Q. And then the training at Golubic stopped?
7 A. Yes. Sometime in July the TO took over Golubic.
8 Q. And that training had nothing do with Frenki?
9 A. More or less no.
10 Q. What does that mean?
11 A. It didn't have anything to do with him.
12 Q. So would you estimate the number of men trained at Golubic
13 between May and July as around 200 or 300?
14 A. I think between 200 and 250 would be a fair figure.
15 Q. And apart from that ten who -- let me start that again.
16 We know that ten stayed after the first training to be
17 instructors. What happened to the remaining men after the first round of
18 training?
19 A. Between 20 and 30 men were stationed at the Knin fortress and
20 there was a staff there. About 15 to 20 men were transferred to Udbina,
21 the distance being about 100 and 120 kilometres to the north of Knin.
22 About 20 people were taken to Tito Korenica where a new centre, training
23 centre was set up. Between 10 and 15 men were transferred to Benkovac,
24 men who belonged to the Benkovac police station. Some men were sent back
25 to Obrovac, so and on so forth. Nevertheless, the great majority of
Page 7247
1 those who were from somewhere around there went back to their original
2 units.
3 Q. So just taking the 20 to 30 men at the Knin fortress, the 15 to
4 20 men transferred to Udbina, and the 20 men taken to Korenica, and the
5 10 to 15 transferred to Benkovac, the remainder returned to their
6 original police or TO unit; is that correct?
7 A. Yes, that's how it normally worked, depending on how many people
8 came, where they came from, and then normally those people would go back.
9 Q. And the vast majority of those men, is this correct, were regular
10 TOs who returned to their TO units?
11 A. TO members stayed on for quite a long time. The war had begun by
12 now and they were permanently stationed at Golubic later on. Those were
13 sporadic regular units who were under the JNA command all the time.
14 Q. And of the 200 to 250, the majority were TO regulars; is that
15 correct?
16 A. Yes, for the most part. (redacted)
17 (redacted)
18 (redacted)
19 (redacted)
20 (redacted)
21 Q. I'm going to try to press you, please forgive me, but, are you
22 able to put a figure, an approximate figure on the number of TO out of
23 the 200 to 250?
24 A. 200, if you put it that way, 200 perhaps. Around 200 I would
25 say.
Page 7248
1 Q. Okay. So around 50 were volunteers who came from the police, and
2 apart from the numbers who remained, the ones you've told us about who
3 remained at the Knin fortress or went to Korenica, et cetera, they
4 returned to their original police units; correct?
5 A. Yes.
6 Q. Now, the training at Golubic was -- was what? Could you tell the
7 Court just very briefly what kind of training the men received. Perhaps
8 I could be more specific. Do you know if it was any different to what
9 regular TO members would receive?
10 A. Yes, it was quite different. A different approach was taken to
11 formation movement and on how to use weapons that they had never used or
12 seen before, how they should climb over obstacles, how they should come
13 down walls that were perhaps 7 or 8 metres high. They were taught to use
14 ropes, mountaineering kits, camouflaging. More or less this was some
15 sort of special military doctoring such as that used by Special Forces.
16 Q. I want to ask you about something that was said by you in your
17 previous testimony.
18 MR. JORDASH: Your Honours, P977 at page 2196. Could we have
19 that on e-court, please.
20 Q. Now, if you look at --
21 MR. JORDASH: I think not to be shown to the public.
22 Q. It says on page 2196, you are being asked a question by a judge
23 at line 11 concerning the training at Golubic.
24 "Witness, you testified that those police officers who had been
25 trained at Golubic were given assignments after their training. You
Page 7249
1 mentioned something about a sort of final test, and assignments, so to
2 say, a final test. Can you explain that?"
3 And then you give an explanation.
4 MR. JORDASH: 2196 we should have on the screen, I think.
5 Q. And the Judge then asks you -- well, I'll wait until you've got
6 that on the screen.
7 THE REGISTRAR: Could the counsel please refer to the page.
8 MR. JORDASH: 2196.
9 THE REGISTRAR: Page in e-court, please.
10 MR. JORDASH: It's P977.
11 Q. Let me shortcut this, if I can, since time is running.
12 Mr. Witness, the training that was given at Golubic was training as you
13 described of a military nature; correct?
14 A. Yes.
15 Q. And it was training which was designed to fight in a combat but
16 there was no instruction concerning the commission of crime, that the
17 training was in order to assist crime; is that right?
18 A. Yes. I think it depends on an individual's will what they will
19 do. The training was designed to raise their abilities. The training
20 was not, as far as I know, designed for people to commit crimes.
21 Q. And was the training designed to enable the TO and the police to
22 better conduct their ordinary tasks?
23 A. That's why I said that. That is the case, that I said the TO had
24 nothing to do literally with the Special Forces or volunteers who were
25 there to become members of the special force. They were trained
Page 7250
1 specifically to become members of the Special Forces, to work in smaller
2 groups, to penetrate behind enemy lines, to operate from any position
3 whatsoever and still be able to find their way around. The TO were
4 trained in the regular way, trained to defend from an attack. And the
5 difference between the two was huge.
6 Q. So you are saying that the 50 -- well, how many were trained then
7 in this -- in the way you describe as to become members of the Special
8 Forces?
9 A. I think about 150 would be a fair figure, the people who
10 succeeded in that.
11 Q. But you told us a moment ago, tell me please if I am wrong, that
12 200 were TO members who fell under the command of the JNA leaving
13 approximately 50 who were police, members of the police or volunteers,
14 and now you say, well, actually, 150 were trained to be Special Forces.
15 Could you clarify that, please?
16 A. It's difficult for me to clarify this because this is about
17 figures. I said 150. I meant the training -- those who came there with
18 the explicit intention of becoming members of the Special Forces, and
19 that's why at the outset I said the TO at the Golubic camp had nothing to
20 do and no place being in the same camp as those from the Special Forces,
21 apart from the attempts by Captain Dragan and Frenki, the two exercised
22 command over them. That is why there was this conflict, a political one
23 and other types of conflicts arose too.
24 Q. Okay. You told us that the police who had been trained, apart
25 from a smaller percentage, returned to their ordinary units; is that
Page 7251
1 correct? And I am focusing now on the period between May and July.
2 A. I think that's a fair statement. For example, I can give you an
3 example, in Benkovac, there were 10 or 15 men who went back to Benkovac
4 and they were all active-duty police officers before they ever came
5 there. They became special units and they no longer did normal policing
6 afterwards.
7 Q. Well, are you talking about Goran Opacic and his two brothers who
8 returned to Benkovac where Bosko Drazic was chief of police?
9 A. Yes, I gave him as an example because they were among the most
10 well known. I singled him out as an example, but I didn't say only
11 Goran Opacic and his brothers. There were other men too there, Kresovic,
12 Vesic, quite a number of them, between 10 and 15 men who went back to
13 Benkovac because that's where they belonged.
14 Q. So just focusing on May to July, are you saying that 50 police
15 officers were trained during that period as you told us 10, 15 minutes,
16 and then returned to their police units?
17 A. Again I simply don't know what to say, how to answer the
18 question. It's all a game of figures for me. 50 or more. Anyway, maybe
19 a total of 150 people but I didn't keep count how many went there and how
20 many remained. Some of them as soon as they were done with the training
21 got missions and they were off to do something specific, attack someone
22 or do something else. It's very difficult to determine from where I
23 stand what the exact figures might be.
24 Q. Well, let's forget figures for a moment then, if you can't deal
25 with figures. Apart from returning to their original units as with
Page 7252
1 Opacic, what else did they do and how did they do it?
2 A. Again, well, I can give you an example. For example, a squad
3 commander, 2nd lieutenant Calic, for example, had some sort of a mission,
4 in a way, to go to Gugova [phoen]. According to information provided by
5 the chief of state security Dusan Orlovic, they were supposed to attack
6 or destroy Ljubovo by firing missiles. There was an a erstwhile farm
7 there known as Ljubovo. That was one of their missions. Some for
8 example went back to Glina later on to attack the police station there
9 and take it over. They had been trained in Golubic and they were sent to
10 take over the Dvor Na Uni police station. I didn't keep any records as
11 to who was going where or doing what. I was not keeping count.
12 Q. Well, who was giving them the commands, their original unit or
13 someone else, do you know that?
14 A. They were obviously under the command of Frenki and
15 Captain Dragan. I wasn't there when orders were given.
16 Q. So you're suggesting that Frenki was giving orders at what stage?
17 What time in 1991? Which months?
18 A. I can't say. I'm not saying directly that Frenki gave any
19 orders. I wasn't there to see or hear it. I'm just saying those were
20 his men, under his command, and the command of Captain Dragan. I don't
21 know which of them it was that actually gave orders. But people talked
22 about this. It was an open secret. Everyone was enthusiastic about what
23 these people had achieved. Afterwards, they were nicknamed the Knindzes,
24 the invincibles, the invisibles, and enjoyed the reputation of men who
25 were able to achieve any feat they imagined.
Page 7253
1 Q. Well, did you see him give orders in July 1991, Frenki, that is?
2 A. I wasn't there when he gave any orders. I can't say he ordered
3 something.
4 Q. Did you see him in September, Frenki, in Knin or the Krajina?
5 A. September. September, which year?
6 Q. 1991?
7 A. I really don't remember whether that was in September 1991.
8 Q. Do you remember him at all in the Knin region between September
9 and December of 1991?
10 A. I can't remember seeing him specifically between September and
11 December 1991. I don't remember. Why do I not remember? There was a
12 huge conflict and Martic asked from Belgrade that he should be sent away
13 from Knin from Golubic to the fortress and then from there on to
14 Korenica. Martic wanted him out of there because he was creating too
15 much trouble with his men.
16 Q. Let's go into that a little if we can. You say, is this right --
17 MR. JORDASH: Your Honour, I really don't want to be difficult,
18 but I'm getting rather hostile looks from the man in the public gallery
19 which is a little off-putting who is a looking directly at me constantly.
20 JUDGE ORIE: I can't see that man because for me he is behind.
21 Could the --
22 MR. JORDASH: He has moved now, Your Honour.
23 JUDGE ORIE: He has moved to a place where there's no eye contact
24 between you and that person. Then let's move on.
25 MR. JORDASH:
Page 7254
1 Q. Now, Martic was unhappy you say with Frenki. For what reason
2 precisely?
3 A. There were many reasons. Frenki was acting the big boss, more
4 than arrogant. He was arrogant in the way he addressed people and
5 officers. He kept eating out in restaurants and cafes, he drank and
6 socialised with people in Knin who had murky and shady backgrounds,
7 became friends who were shady people, and Martic was suspicious and
8 unhappy about all of that. People had a hard time getting by. There
9 were no salaries or anything and he was spending a lot of money and
10 driving nice cars. He was driving PUCH Mercedes vehicles and those were
11 easy to spot. Wherever he went he would park the car outside and
12 everybody knew he was there because the car was huge. Babic asked
13 Belgrade
14 why they were transferred to the fortress, and from there to Korenica
15 where they stayed for quite some time. They stayed until 1992 and 1993,
16 as far as I remember.
17 Q. So Babic asked Belgrade
18 just said that?
19 A. No, I said Babic talked to Martic and asked Martic to talk to
20 Belgrade
21 complaining about him. The officers could no longer put up with that and
22 there was a huge rift that occurred as a result.
23 Q. So instead of Frenki being removed, he was then, is this -- am I
24 understanding the situation correctly, transferred to the fortress?
25 A. Yes. In fact, he spent most of his time in Belgrade rather than
Page 7255
1 at the fortress, and then when he did come to Knin for a couple of days,
2 a day or two, then they would have these meetings together at the
3 fortress, they would quarrel, so that it was asked for him to be -- to go
4 back.
5 Q. Earlier today you said that there was no direct departure from
6 Golubic camp to Korenica. Part of the command centre was moved with some
7 men to the fortress in Knin. Is it your evidence then that as a result
8 of Babic and Martic requesting Frenki's removal from Knin, what happened
9 instead was that Frenki was moved with the command centre to the fortress
10 in Knin? Am I understanding that correctly?
11 A. Well, that's not exactly what I meant. He was moved, or rather,
12 part of the staff belonged to the TO, so that the facilities at the
13 fortress belonged actually to the TO. So they wanted them to leave
14 Golubic so that the Golubic could be handed over to the TO because it was
15 becoming unbearable. And then from Knin he moved to Belgrade and then
16 from Belgrade
17 in Knin. (redacted)
18 (redacted)
19 (redacted)
20 Q. Which command centre moved to the fortress? Whose command
21 centre?
22 A. The staff that was moved, the headquarters that were moved to the
23 fortress were now again a single unified command because the TO had
24 already been there. The main objective was to remove Frenki and
25 Captain Dragan and his men as far away from Golubic as possible.
Page 7256
1 Q. Let me just try to understand. As a result of what you say was
2 Frenki's bad behaviour, he was moved with the command centre of the
3 training in Golubic to the fortress where there was then a unified
4 command?
5 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Jordash, I'm really concerned about -- may I
6 give it a better try because we were -- let me see whether I understood
7 the witness.
8 Witness JF-039, I understood your testimony and earlier testimony
9 in your statement to reflect approximately the following, and I might
10 have one or two clarifying questions: In the training facility in
11 Golubic, a conflict arose as to who would command the TO, and that there
12 was concern that Frenki was too influential in commanding TO, and that
13 that was the reason why they wanted to move him from Golubic to the Knin
14 fortress. Let me first verify whether I understood that well?
15 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes.
16 JUDGE ORIE: Now, you further explained that his behaviour and in
17 the evidence, the written evidence we have before us, it was spending a
18 lot of money, driving big cars, where there was insufficient goods or
19 money for the population, that that irritated, I think in the written
20 statements we also find his behaviour in relation to women, and that that
21 was another reason to get rid of him. Is that well understood?
22 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes, Your Honour.
23 JUDGE ORIE: Now, that bad behaviour, as you said, drinking,
24 socialising with the wrong persons, et cetera, et cetera, did that start
25 in Golubic or was that after he was more or less taken from Golubic and
Page 7257
1 condemned to the headquarters at the Knin fortress? Had that started
2 already in Golubic or did that start once he was moved to the Knin
3 fortress?
4 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] That started before he was moved to
5 the Knin fortress. It started perhaps very soon after he began coming to
6 Knin on a regular basis. The people at the police station did not like
7 it when he came there. Later on, with everything that happened at
8 Golubic, this just added to the previous trouble. It was just the last
9 straw, and in fact that was the main reason, as you said, Your Honour,
10 that he wanted to take command of the TO without really being entitled to
11 that, and that was one of the major issues.
12 JUDGE ORIE: So do I understand that both his personal behaviour
13 and the conflict about who would command the TO, that those two reasons
14 caused Martic and/or Babic to get him first of all out of Golubic and
15 later even to get him out of Knin?
16 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes, Your Honour.
17 JUDGE ORIE: Please proceed, Mr. Jordash.
18 MR. JORDASH: Thank you, Your Honour.
19 Q. And so Frenki was moved to Golubic -- sorry, the fortress and
20 what happened then at the fortress?
21 A. At the fortress the only thing -- the only thing that was there
22 was the command centre. They called it the protection platoon, and they
23 were already preparing at the request of Bosko Bozanic who was the
24 municipality president, the president of the Korenica municipality, in
25 order to pacify the situation, they asked that he be transferred to
Page 7258
1 Korenica and help them out there in establishing a centre. But I think
2 in between for awhile he had returned to Belgrade.
3 Q. So the command centre at the fortress continued to train the
4 police, did it, having been separated from the TO?
5 A. The command centre did not command the police. It had the
6 hallmarks of military -- of a military structure. So that's why I said
7 that the time-frame was very important because in two weeks time, part of
8 the regular --
9 Q. I think you misunderstood my question. I asked whether the
10 command centre at the fortress continued to train the police as it had
11 done in part at Golubic?
12 A. No.
13 Q. So what was it the command centre of at the fortress?
14 A. The command centre was a command centre until the training centre
15 in Korenica was established. In other words, it was only transformed
16 into a military command centre and the Territorial Defence remained. The
17 TO at that time was taking over the barricades and for that reason there
18 was a command centre.
19 Q. When was the training centre in Korenica established?
20 A. I don't know exactly when it was established. It was established
21 after the total take-over had been completed. When the transfer from the
22 Golubic was done, parts of the staff were sent to Udbina and part were
23 sent to Korenica, but I don't know exactly when it was established.
24 Q. In 1991 was it established?
25 A. In Tito Korenica, I think so.
Page 7259
1 Q. Late 1991?
2 A. I think it was sometime in 1991. Late 1991.
3 Q. Did training continue in the fortress up until the training
4 centre in Korenica was established?
5 A. Well, in the fortress, what they used to refer to as veterans,
6 they were there. They were mostly there to provide security and be sent
7 on assignments and sometimes it was just enough for them to appear to be
8 visible so that the people could see them and feel safer.
9 Q. So was there any training in the fortress between --
10 A. I think it would be fair to say that, yes, some training was
11 provided there.
12 Q. Of who?
13 A. Special Forces. At the time they were already called the
14 Knindzes.
15 Q. Were these police? Were these recruits from the police?
16 A. I can't really say that they were from the police. Maybe some of
17 the men were from the command structure, the police command structure,
18 but the others were people who typically had undergone training but
19 didn't have any police background.
20 Q. What was Martic's involvement in this?
21 A. Well, he was there around the clock at the command, especially at
22 the fortress, unless he was away on a trip, a business trip.
23 Q. Doing what? Working hand in hand with Simatovic, with Frenki?
24 A. I don't know what they did at the headquarters behind closed
25 doors, but sometimes they planned various missions. When I say
Page 7260
1 "mission," I mean perhaps an attack, like they organised an attack on
2 Lovinac. They negotiated with people from various parts on how to
3 proceed, but I did not attend those meetings so I wouldn't really know
4 what they discussed.
5 JUDGE ORIE: Perhaps, Mr. Jordash, I'm looking at the clock.
6 It's close to 7.00, could you please keep that in mind for the next one
7 or two minutes.
8 MR. JORDASH: Your Honour, yes. Thank you. Could we have,
9 please, P978 on e-court.
10 Q. Your previous witness statement, Mr. Witness, from 2003?
11 JUDGE ORIE: Wouldn't that take more than one or two minutes,
12 Mr. Jordash? I'm concerned about my own reputation as well.
13 MR. JORDASH: I'm happy to leave it at that for now, Your Honour.
14 JUDGE ORIE: Then could I get an indication as far as time is
15 concerned?
16 MR. JORDASH: Given the way that it's progressed, I would request
17 at least three hours more.
18 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Bakrac or Mr. Petrovic.
19 MR. BAKRAC: [Interpretation] Your Honour, when you asked me last
20 week how long I would take, I told you I would need about two and a half
21 to three hours, and Mr. Jordash is dealing with issues that relate to my
22 client, so some new questions have arisen, but I assume that I can finish
23 my cross-examination in about two and a half hours.
24 [Trial Chamber confers]
25 JUDGE ORIE: I briefly discussed with my colleagues the way in
Page 7261
1 which the cross-examination is conducted. When you said, Mr. Jordash,
2 that in view of -- given the way that it's progressed, things do not
3 progress. Things are dealt in a way and then go more speedily or not.
4 The Chamber is not convinced, as a matter of fact, that the extra time it
5 takes that that's primarily or mainly due to the witness. So therefore,
6 you are invited also to see whether you can speed up and --
7 MR. JORDASH: Your Honour, I wasn't actually blaming the witness,
8 but what I did was -- I needed to go through that because I needed to
9 establish certain issues, and Your Honours will see tomorrow morning
10 within a short time why I established all those facts.
11 JUDGE ORIE: Then perhaps it's important that the witness -- that
12 the Chamber tomorrow morning within a short time thinks about it. Even
13 if the why becomes clear then that still doesn't say everything about the
14 how, but let's wait until tomorrow morning when you said that within a
15 short time it will be clear for us. But to be convinced we need at least
16 tomorrow in a short time.
17 Witness JF-039, may I again instruct you that you should not
18 speak to anyone about your testimony, whether it's testimony you've given
19 already today or whether it's testimony to be given tomorrow or even
20 after that, that includes anyone who may accompany you as a support
21 person, it is for everyone, parties, non-parties, whomever it is. And I
22 repeat that if you would not follow this instructions, you are violating
23 an order of this Chamber and that can have serious consequences.
24 We adjourn for the day and we'll resume tomorrow, the 15th of
25 September at 9.00 in Courtroom II.
Page 7262
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