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11 MR. TERRIER:

12 Q. Could you please tell the Court what you

13 remember about that day of the 16th of April, 1993? To

14 start with, do you remember what time you were woken

15 up?

16 A. Yes, yes, I remember. It was around twenty

17 past five, between 5.00 and 5.30, that is. I was the

18 first one to wake up, as I was always the first one to

19 get up anyway. I got up and I went out to get some

20 water. I came up to the door and I wanted to unlock

21 it, and I heard a detonation. I went back, in order to

22 inform my son and my husband who were asleep, that we

23 were being attacked from some place, that there was

24 shooting. My husband got up and my son too, and we

25 went towards the door. We didn't know where to go. We

1 didn't see anything that was happening around us. The

2 blinds were down, so we didn't dare lift them.

3 However, we hid in a pantry. We thought that

4 we would be the safest there. We spent some ten

5 minutes there, I believe. Ten minutes later, a lady, a

6 neighbour of mine, came to my door. She knocked and

7 she said, "Let's run. We're being attacked. They are

8 torching everything. They are killing everyone."

9 I saw it from my house, and some kind of a

10 tromblone or something had passed through my house.

11 I'm not very knowledgeable about this at all. The two

12 of us got out with her daughter, and we went to the

13 village of Ahmici. My son and my husband stayed on. I

14 said, "Try to save your lives and run." I went through

15 a valley. It is actually a road that is called "The

16 Valley," Dolina, and we came to the main road.

17 We came to the Kupreskic houses,

18 approximately, and we saw that we could not go further

19 towards Ahmici because the houses in Grabovi, at that

20 time, were all burned. We saw the HVO army running

21 across the road, and they were running around there. I

22 didn't know what they were doing and who they were

23 looking for, and we hid underneath a hill. There was a

24 hill there by the Kupreskic houses, so we hid there, I

25 and this lady neighbour of mine and her daughter. We

1 were joined by three sisters and their brother. Then

2 Kemo came. He was a refugee from Karaula, and he came

3 with his family, and we hid there.

4 We didn't know what to do, where we could

5 run, because there was shooting from all sides, from

6 the Kupreskic houses up there and also from Pirici. We

7 had no where to go, and we just sat there. I don't

8 know. We didn't even know what to think or what to

9 do. We were under a blockade there.

10 After some time, my neighbour was hit

11 directly in the back, here, (indicating), in the back

12 of her head and she fell. A few minutes later, my

13 other neighbour, an 18-year-old girl, screamed, "I've

14 been hit too." I didn't know what to do. I saw Kemo

15 coming back along the same road, the same road that we

16 took on our way there. He was there with his family,

17 and I went with them.

18 When we got there, I saw the husband of that

19 neighbour of mine hiding there in the bushes by the

20 Dolina, by that road, and I told him that his wife was

21 wounded. I said, "If you can, try to get to her to

22 help her. I can't do anything." As I was running

23 along that road, bullets were flying all around me and

24 falling all around me, near me, but as luck would have

25 it, or, perhaps, even a lack of luck would have it, I

1 was not hit at all. Because when I found out that my

2 husband had been killed, I didn't care. I didn't know

3 whether anyone had survived. Afterwards, I heard that

4 both of them were killed, and I said, "Why didn't you

5 kill me too? Why did you let me live?"

6 I saw Kemo stopping by a house where he lived

7 as a refugee. I also went into this house. There were

8 twelve of us there. Kemo and his son and his brother,

9 I didn't see them. We hid there, nine of us women and

10 children, I mean.

11 After that, a woman from Karaula came there,

12 and she was crying. I was there to meet her. She said

13 that her husband and her 18-year-old son were killed.

14 She was leading two small children by the hand. She

15 was in tears. She was bitter.

16 We were there, approximately, I don't know,

17 we didn't have any watches, so we didn't know exactly

18 what time it was, we were there, approximately, until

19 around 12.00. Then three HVO members came. They shot

20 a burst of gun fire into the door, and they said, "Open

21 up." We said, "It was open." They walked in and they

22 threw us out. They took us to a swamp called Dolina.

23 There is a forest there, but there weren't really very

24 many trees. I don't know how many, really. They kept

25 us there, perhaps, about three hours, two or three

1 hours. They provoked us. They asked whether we had

2 any money or gold. They provoked me too. They could

3 see my house well from that point, and they asked me

4 whether I felt sorry about my house, and I said, "No.

5 I feel sorry because of these people. Why are you

6 doing all of this? What did you need all of this for?

7 We were neighbours. Until yesterday, we were all one.

8 We would help one another. We would go to visit one

9 another. We lived in harmony. We had a nice life."

10 I don't know. One of them was cursing me. I

11 don't know him, and he held me at gunpoint all the

12 time. I recognised one person there. This Ramiza

13 pushed me over there and said, "There's the one who

14 killed my husband and my son," but she didn't dare

15 point him out to me.

16 After that time, they made us go to the main

17 road, which is what we did. We set out. We were wet

18 because we were sitting in the swamp, but we were

19 ordered to do so. I didn't know, at that time, what

20 was going on. They asked me where my husband and my

21 son were, and I said that I didn't know, because I

22 truly didn't know. They said then, "Well, we know

23 where they are. We killed them and we sent them to

24 God's garden to pick tangerines." I said, "When you

25 killed them, kill me too, because my life no longer

1 matters. My life is no longer important to me."

2 They made us go to the main road. We went up

3 there, and then, again, we sought shelter in the bushes

4 by the main road. A lot of HVO army had gone by

5 there. They were called Gostinje, and they had full

6 military gear on. We saw an UNPROFOR vehicle, and we

7 went up to the road. We didn't know how to talk to

8 them but, to the best of our ability, we explained to

9 them that they should take us anywhere from there, but

10 they should just try to get us out of there so that we

11 wouldn't be there anymore. One of them promised that

12 he would come back. He went to the village of Ahmici.

13 After a longer period of time, as we were

14 waiting for them, we went out into the main road to

15 wait for them, and I heard my name. Somebody had

16 called out my name. I was looking all around, and I

17 noticed, in Vlado's shed, some of our people. I went

18 across the field between Vlado's house and Drago's

19 house. There's a field there. I went to the shed, and

20 I saw a neighbour of mine, her daughter-in-law, her

21 son, two refugees, also. That was a mother-in-law and

22 a daughter-in-law with two young children. They had

23 killed her husband and son too. They killed them

24 before their very own eyes. I said that UNPROFOR would

25 come and that we could all get out of there.

1 At that time, we heard the UNPROFOR coming.

2 We went to the road. Two vehicles came, and we got

3 into these vehicles. As we were boarding the vehicles,

4 I saw an UNPROFOR soldier moving towards Lager, and

5 then I saw him bringing Aladin along. Aladin was in

6 tears, and he asked me, "What is this? What is going

7 on? Where are your folks? I don't know anything."

8 As we were driving, Aladin told me some

9 things, and then when we came to Travnik. We had

10 plenty of time, and Aladin told me about everything

11 that had happened that morning. Drago came with a

12 group of soldiers, and he locked him in there. He

13 begged him to let him go for a minute only, because

14 Smajla was there, and he asked him whether he could go

15 to see a neighbour and get a pill because he had a

16 toothache. This same Drago was on very good terms with

17 these neighbours until the very last day, and he

18 thought that if he asked Drago, that Drago would do

19 that, that he would let him go. In a way, he had

20 warned him, but Drago did not act that way. Drago

21 ordered him to sit there. He disconnected his

22 telephone, and he said, "You will see everything,

23 whatever is being done, and we will come and kill you

24 last."

25 I really don't know. It was horrible. It

1 was all organised. It was not carried out only during

2 one day or two days. It was going on over a period of

3 days. We were very good neighbours. We had a good

4 life, but they betrayed us. They betrayed us because

5 they attacked us in such a nasty way. They killed

6 innocent people. They wanted to destroy everything so

7 that nobody was left living there, but somehow, by

8 miracle, people survived. So there are people who can

9 come here and tell the Court what really happened, but

10 you can't really tell how it happened. You cannot tell

11 everything. You cannot prove everything.

12 There's one thing I really know: These

13 people were innocent. They were not guilty of

14 anything. They were murdered just like that. They

15 wanted to do that. They were brave enough for killing

16 these people, all of them. I don't know. It was a

17 real disaster.

18 Then one day later, I reached Travnik and I

19 found some accommodation in Travnik. A neighbour of

20 mine came to see me, and she told me that my son was

21 alive, that he had been wounded and that he was in

22 hospital in Travnik. I went to visit my son. I saw

23 him in hospital, and I spent 20 days at the hospital

24 with him, because I wasn't feeling very well myself. I

25 was also sick.

1 Twenty days later, we were transferred to

2 Zenica. I asked my son, "Do you remember anything? Do

3 you know what happened to your father, what happened to

4 others who were hiding with you?" He told me, "Mom, I

5 don't believe that anyone survived. As far as I could

6 tell, they were all killed." This is how our life goes

7 on. We were in Zenica at that time. (redacted)

8 (redacted).

9 I don't know what else I can tell you. This

10 is what I lived through that day, where I went. I

11 didn't see anyone kill anyone. I cannot tell you

12 anything about that. I'm only telling the truth and

13 what I experienced myself, what my neighbours went

14 through. This is how it happened.

15 Q. Thank you very much, Madam. Let me ask you a

16 few questions following your story. Let us go back to

17 the morning of the 16th of April, 1993. You stated

18 that, following the first shots outside the house, you

19 hid, together with your husband and your son. Then ten

20 minutes later, a neighbour and her daughter arrived.

21 Could you tell the Court what were the names of that

22 neighbour of yours and her daughter?

23 A. My neighbour's name was Nadira Ahmic, and she

24 had a daughter by the name of Zirafeta. Nadira, as I

25 told you, was killed. It was actually two days later

1 that she died. She succumbed to her wounds. She had

2 been severely wounded.

3 Q. You also stated that, together with these two

4 women and other people, you fled towards Ahmici,

5 leaving behind in the house your husband and your son.

6 Could you show to the Judges, on the map, the route

7 that you followed?

8 A. (redacted). I came up there, and then

9 I headed in this direction down the road. I followed

10 this road, this path, all the way here (indicating) and

11 up the hill to the Kupreskic houses. I stopped there.

12 I didn't go any further. There was a hill there below

13 the house of Vlatko Kupreskic, and this is where we

14 took shelter, below this hill.

15 We were there, near the main road below the

16 hill, and we stayed there until Nadira was hit and

17 until Hajra was also hit, her sister as well. Kemo was

18 hit in his arm. When I saw that it was dangerous, I

19 came back along the same road, and I went in this

20 direction here (indicating), and this is where I turned

21 and went to this house, the house of Sulejman Ahmic.

22 This is where I stayed until 12.00.

23 MR. TERRIER: Thank you. For the sake of the

24 transcript, I shall specify that the witness showed the

25 path that goes from her house to the cluster of the

1 Grabovi houses, Sutre, where the Kupreskic houses are

2 to be found, according to her statements.

3 Q. When you arrived in front of the Grabovi

4 houses, did you catch a glimpse of soldiers?

5 A. Yes, I did.

6 Q. Where were they?

7 A. They were everywhere around these houses and

8 also on the road.

9 Q. Which houses are you speaking of?

10 A. Around the houses that were on fire, the

11 Bosniak houses, in the area called Grabovi. This is

12 all in the vicinity of the house of Vlatko Kupreskic,

13 and these houses were all burned down. They were

14 running around. They were looking for something, but I

15 don't know what. However, they found a group of people

16 around 1.00, and they were surprised that these people

17 were alive. Unfortunately, they managed to survive.

18 Q. These soldiers, were there many of them?

19 A. How shall I tell you? I cannot say that

20 there were hundreds of them. I only saw, maybe,

21 between ten and fifteen of them running across the

22 road. However, later in the afternoon, I saw quite a

23 few soldiers that were coming from Gostinje and that

24 were going in the direction of Dolina where I was taken

25 prisoner. They went there. They probably remained

1 there or continued with their operation from that

2 place.

3 Q. You stated earlier on that you were close to

4 the house of Vlatko Kupreskic with a group of people

5 and you were stuck there for quite a while. Who were

6 the people you were together with below the Kupreskic

7 house?

8 A. There was myself, my neighbour Nadira, her

9 daughter Zirafeta; there was Mina as well; Hajra,

10 Besima, their brother, younger brother; there was also

11 Zuleha Osmancevic; Senada was there as well; Kemo with

12 his family, he had a daughter, a son, and a brother, a

13 sister-in-law, his wife, and one more sister. That was

14 the group of people who were there with me.

15 Q. How many men were there in that group?

16 A. There were three men with us and there was

17 this other very young boy, Islam, he was very small,

18 and there was also Adem and his son.

19 Q. Was one of these men wearing a weapon?

20 A. (No audible interpretation)

21 Q. Was one of these men wearing a uniform?

22 A. No.

23 Q. How long do you think you stayed below that

24 house?

25 A. It all happened very quickly. Nadira was

1 there and these people were hit and I -- after they had

2 been hit, I withdrew very quickly. I didn't stay there

3 longer than 15 minutes. But others remained until

4 1.00, until they were discovered by the HVO soldiers.

5 Q. You saw the fatal wounds inflicted to your

6 neighbour named Nadira.

7 A. Yes.

8 Q. When she was fatally wounded, was she close

9 to you?

10 A. No. She fell down immediately. She fell on

11 her left side. She didn't say anything, not a word.

12 She simply fell down because she was hit directly in

13 her head.

14 Q. Do you mean that she was hit at the back of

15 her head, in the nape?

16 A. (No audible interpretation)

17 Q. In which position was she in relation to the

18 house of Vlatko Kupreskic?

19 A. Let me try to explain this to you as simply

20 as I can. She was sitting like this, and there was a

21 hill behind her, and on top of the hill was the house

22 of Vlatko Kupreskic and Franjo Kupreskic, so we were in

23 front of the house.

24 Q. Could you give us some more details? Where,

25 according to you, did the shot come from that was to be

1 the fatal shot for your neighbour?

2 A. It came from the house of Vlatko Kupreskic or

3 Franjo Kupreskic; from one of these two houses the

4 bullet came. It couldn't have come from anywhere

5 else. If it had come from the opposite side, she would

6 have been hit in the forehead.

7 Q. According to you, would it be the same for

8 the shot that was to kill Hajra?

9 A. You mean Besima?

10 Q. Hajra.

11 A. Hajra, yes. I can't tell you that because

12 there were other shots at that time. Hajra was still

13 standing at the time, and she told me, "I've been

14 wounded," and she grabbed herself like this, below the

15 chest. But I left at that time, and by the time I was

16 gone, Hajra was already dead.

17 Q. How old was Hajra?

18 A. She was 18.

19 Q. I believe you also mentioned other people who

20 were wounded there, among them Zela -- I don't know

21 whether I am pronouncing her name properly -- a young

22 woman called Zela.

23 A. Yes, she's called Zela but her name is

24 actually Besima. She was wounded in her leg.

25 Q. How old was she back in 1993?

1 A. I don't know that. She was younger than

2 Hajra, but I don't know what age she really was.

3 Q. You explained that after leaving that

4 location where people were wounded and killed, you

5 sought refuge together with other people in the house

6 of Sulejman Ahmic and you indicated his house on this

7 aerial map, this aerial photograph.

8 A. Yes.

9 Q. And you stated that at around noon, three

10 soldiers came. Were you able to recognise either one

11 of them?

12 A. There was one of them, Ivica Srebren and two

13 others.

14 Q. Could you give us his last name, the last

15 name of Ivica?

16 A. Srebren. I believe that that was his last

17 name.

18 Q. Was he a neighbour?

19 A. Yes.

20 Q. Did he have a painted face? Did he have a

21 mask so as to hide who he was?

22 A. No, he was not covered with anything. That's

23 how I recognised him. He didn't have a hat or paint on

24 his face, nothing.

25 Q. As to the other two soldiers who were with

1 him, did they have masks or did they have painted

2 faces?

3 A. I don't remember, and I didn't recognise them

4 at all.

5 Q. How many of you were there in that house of

6 Sulejman Ahmic?

7 A. First we stayed in the bathroom because we

8 thought that was the safest place in the house, and

9 then we moved to a room next to the road, and this is

10 how we realised -- we felt that they were coming, that

11 they were below the window. The door was not locked,

12 but in spite of that, they opened fire and they opened

13 the door to frighten us. They told us to open up. We

14 told them it was open and then they broke in. They

15 forced us out of the house. They set the house on

16 fire. They burnt everything. And they expelled us,

17 they took us to that swamp where there were other HVO

18 soldiers.

19 Q. How did the soldiers behave towards you?

20 Were they threatening you or were they trying to

21 appease you?

22 A. Well, they were provoking us a little, of

23 course, but they didn't do anything to us. It's true,

24 there was some verbal abuse and they told me they'd

25 kill my husband and my son.

1 Q. You then reached the main road. You then

2 mentioned another group of people; they were hiding in

3 one of the annexes of Vlado's house. I don't think you

4 mentioned the family name, the last name. Could you

5 tell it to the Court?

6 A. There was my lady neighbour Vahida there, her

7 son Enver, her daughter-in-law, but I don't know the

8 names of the refugees. There were people from

9 Karaula. There was an old grannie there with her

10 daughter-in-law and two small children.

11 Q. Could you give us the family name of the

12 person who owned the house where you were hiding? You

13 mentioned a certain Vlado.

14 A. Trust me, I'm not very good at their last

15 names. I lived there for ten years, and I don't know

16 all the details.

17 Q. Aladin told you what had happened to him on

18 the 16th of April. In so doing, he mentioned a certain

19 Drago. Do you know the family name, the surname of

20 that person?

21 A. (No audible interpretation)

22 Q. Would you mind mentioning this? It was

23 inaudible. Would you mind repeating the surname of

24 that person?

25 A. Drago Josipovic.

1 Q. When did Aladin tell you that story?

2 A. He told me when we reached Travnik, in front

3 of the hospital.

4 Q. On that same day?

5 A. The same day, that very same day.

6 Q. To conclude, I would like to show you two

7 photographs.

8 Can I have the help of the usher?

9 THE REGISTRAR: The photograph is marked 256.

10 A. This is Franjo's and Vlatko's house.

11 MR. TERRIER:

12 Q. When you were hiding down from that small

13 hill, were you able to see Vlatko Kupreskic's house and

14 Franjo's Kupreskic's house in that same way?

15 A. Yes, when we would get up, but since we were

16 sitting underneath this slope, we couldn't see it.

17 Q. Back then, in 1993, was the terrain

18 configured in the same way as it is now shown on this

19 photograph?

20 A. No. At that time, there was a slope there,

21 but now it's all been flattened.

22 MR. TERRIER: I would like to produce Exhibit

23 P245 to the witness. It was admitted yesterday.

24 A. That is the vehicle that came to pick us up.

25 There's a group of people there, and I'm among them.

1 That is that picture. Lager is there on the left-hand

2 side, Drago's house. That's where I was waiting.

3 Q. You can see a vehicle, UNPROFOR vehicle --

4 A. Yes.

5 Q. -- on this road, and close to this vehicle,

6 you can see a group of people. Do you know who these

7 people are?

8 A. You mean the group of people here in this

9 photograph? Could you make it clearer to me? Yes,

10 it's us, it's us, it's us. There were two vehicles

11 there, you know, and some of us were getting in. Two

12 vehicles came to pick us up. I know all the people who

13 were transferred to Travnik in these vehicles. We were

14 transferred by UNPROFOR.

15 MR. SUSAK: I withdraw my question,

16 Mr. President, or, rather, I withdraw my intention to

17 put a question.

18 JUDGE CASSESE: Thank you.

19 MR. TERRIER:

20 Q. You stated that on the left of this

21 photograph, you can see Drago's house. Would you mind

22 stating the last name of this person you just

23 mentioned?

24 A. Josipovic.

25 Q. And then to the right of this photograph, of

1 the road, there is a building -- or do you know which

2 building was built there?

3 THE INTERPRETER: The interpreters could not

4 hear the witness.

5 MR. TERRIER: Thank you, Madam. I would like

6 Exhibits P255 and P256 to be tendered into evidence,

7 Exhibit P255 under seal.

8 JUDGE CASSESE: The answer provided by the

9 witness to the last question was not heard.

10 MR. TERRIER: I'm going to ask the question

11 again.

12 Q. Madam, do you know what is to be found on the

13 right-hand side of the road?

14 A. Lager. That's it. Where Aladin was

15 detained.

16 Q. What kind of a building was it?

17 A. It wasn't a building at all. It was

18 something very small. Only guards were there. It was

19 called Lager. Construction materials were being held

20 there.

21 Q. Do you know what this company or factory is

22 called?

23 A. (No audible interpretation)

24 MR. TERRIER: Thank you very, Your Honour. I

25 have no further questions.

1 JUDGE CASSESE: Thank you very much. Counsel

2 Pavkovic?

3 MR. PAVKOVIC: Mr. President, Mr. Luka Susak

4 intends to cross-examine the witness, but I don't know

5 whether the time would be right to take a break now.

6 His cross-examination will certainly take longer than

7 these few minutes that we have left until 12.30, so I

8 believe that it would be better to proceed after the

9 lunch break.

10 JUDGE CASSESE: All right.

11 MR. PAVKOVIC: Thank you.

12 JUDGE CASSESE: We will adjourn now until

13 2.00.

14 --- Luncheon recess taken at 12.25 p.m.

1 --- On resuming at 2.03 p.m.

2 (Open session)

3 MR. KRAJINA: Mr. President, if I may, with

4 your permission?

5 JUDGE CASSESE: Mr. Krajina?

6 MR. KRAJINA: I have to inform you that in

7 accordance with today's decision of the Trial Chamber,

8 we submitted to the Registrar information about the

9 witnesses who will be called by the Court. I would

10 like to state we have submitted statements for three

11 witnesses, instead of four, as was initially planned,

12 because we gave up one witness. The reason is because

13 it was only today that we managed to establish that he

14 is underage. He is the son of the witness who appears

15 on the videotape, and we thought that it would not be

16 just and fair to call a minor person before the Trial

17 Chamber.

18 This is why we have submitted a list

19 containing three witnesses, instead of four. We

20 thought that he was of age, but during the break today,

21 we established that he is still underage. This is why

22 we decided to call three, instead of four, witnesses.

23 JUDGE CASSESE: Thank you. Counsel Susak?

24 MR. SUSAK: Thank you, Mr. President.

25 Cross-examined by Mr. Susak:

1 Q. Witness BB, good afternoon.

2 A. Good afternoon.

3 Q. My name is Luka Susak, and I'm an attorney at

4 law. I wish to ask you a few questions. You said that

5 you had a(redacted)

6 (redacted)

7 (redacted)I can’t hear you very well.

8 A. Yes.

9 MR. SUSAK: Mr. President, we do not need to

10 go into closed session at this point, but later on it

11 might become necessary.

12 JUDGE CASSESE: All right. We will carry out

13 the necessary redactions, but now I wonder whether you

14 wish to move into a closed session right away.

15 MR. SUSAK: I would definitely feel safer if

16 we move into a closed session right now.

17 JUDGE CASSESE: All right.

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6 MR. SUSAK:

7 Q. You indicated that you were waiting for

8 UNPROFOR. Do you know who was the first person to

9 board the vehicles?

10 A. I don't know. We all got on the vehicle, but

11 I don't know who was the first one.

12 Q. Were you in a hurry?

13 A. Well, yes, we were in a hurry. We wanted to

14 leave the place as soon as possible.

15 Q. When did you get in?

16 A. I don't know. I really don't know.

17 Q. When UNPROFOR vehicles arrived, did you have

18 to wait for a long time? Did you remain standing on

19 the road for a long time?

20 A. Yes, we did, for about 15 or 20 minutes.

21 Q. You testified today about Aladin. Do you

22 know his last name?

23 A. No, I don't.

24 Q. Could you please describe that person for

25 us? What did he look like? How tall was he? How was

1 he dressed?

2 A. I don't know that either. I just know him as

3 a worker who used to work there. He used to visit my

4 sister-in-law and Smajla Ahmic. He was a good friend

5 of theirs. This is all I know about him. He never

6 came to my place. I only saw him in passing. There

7 are even people here whom I don't know who were my

8 neighbours, but I did not see them. I don't know them.

9 Q. Could you be more specific as to the way he

10 looked, how he was dressed? Do you know how tall he

11 was?

12 A. No, I really don't know. I couldn't care

13 less that day, you know. I didn't pay attention to

14 what people were wearing, what they looked like. My

15 only concern was whether we would be able to survive,

16 whether my son would survive, and what would happen to

17 us. This was all my concern, and I didn't look around.

18 Q. You stated that there were two UNPROFOR

19 vehicles there?

20 A. Yes.

21 Q. Was Aladin in the same vehicle as you on the

22 way to Travnik?

23 A. Yes, he was.

24 Q. Did you get off at the same time in Travnik?

25 A. Yes, we did.

1 Q. Did you separate at that point, and where did

2 you go?

3 A. We spent some time in front of the hospital,

4 not very long, and this is where Aladin told me his

5 story, what he had been through. I know I went to

6, (redacted) and her

7 brother-in-law. As to other people, I really don't

8 know where they went.

9 Q. You gave a statement on the 3rd of September,

10 1995. On how many occasions were you interviewed by

11 the Prosecutor before you came here today to testify?

12 A. On two occasions. This was the first

13 statement, and there was one more after that. This is,

14 at least, my recollection.

15 Q. Do you think or do you know that?

16 A. On two occasions.

17 Q. The first statement you gave on the 3rd of

18 September, '95, and you did not mention Aladin

19 Karahodza in that statement. Why is it that you've

20 mentioned him today?

21 A. I'm sorry, but I did mention Aladin in every

22 statement. It must be a mistake. I don't know whose

23 mistake it is, but I mentioned Aladin in all my

24 statements.

25 Q. Maybe this is the Prosecutor's mistake.

1 A. I don't know. I always mentioned Aladin in

2 all of my statements.

3 Q. You did not mention him in the statement

4 dated the 3rd of September, 1995; however, he has

5 become a central issue today.

6 A. I always mentioned Aladin.

7 Q. You said that while you were standing next to

8 the vehicle, you saw Aladin. When, exactly, was it

9 that you saw him?

10 A. I saw him when the vehicle was approaching.

11 He was walking with an UNPROFOR member. Aladin was

12 walking in front of this UNPROFOR member.

13 Q. This is very vague now. Did you see him?

14 What direction was he coming from?

15 A. He was coming from the direction of Lager.

16 Q. Was that the first time that you noticed him?

17 A. Yes.

18 Q. As he was getting out or --

19 A. I saw him as he was walking along the road.

20 I didn't see him getting out of the Lager. I only saw

21 that he was accompanied by an UNPROFOR member.

22 Q. You said that they walked in line?

23 A. Yes.

24 Q. You said Aladin was crying?

25 A. Yes, he was.

1 Q. Did you talk to Aladin while you were

2 travelling to Travnik?

3 A. We didn't talk much. We spent most of the

4 time crying, rather than talking.

5 Q. Was there any difference in what you stated

6 about Aladin's story in respect of what other people

7 told you? When was it that he was locked in the

8 cellar?

9 A. I don't know.

10 Q. Do you know which room he was in?

11 A. No, I can't tell you that either. I just

12 know that he was locked up.

13 Q. You are from that place. Do you know more

14 about that facility?

15 A. Excuse me. I'm not from that particular

16 village.

17 Q. I apologise. You lived there. You're not

18 from that place. Can you please tell us whether there

19 are any doors or windows on that building?

20 A. I don't know. This all happened six years

21 ago. I may have missed something. This has been a

22 very harsh period for myself. I've lost so much, and

23 I've been through such horrible things.

24 Q. You remember certain moments, but you don't

25 remember the person and the facility?

1 A. All I know was that there was this facility

2 and that Aladin was on guard duty that night. Vlado

3 knows about that very well, because he was in front of

4 Smajla Ahmic's house at that time when they killed a

5 cow, a calf. He knew Aladin very well. He knew him

6 better than I did, because Drago lived opposite the

7 Lager where Aladin was working. I believe I'm clear.

8 Q. Was there any glass on those windows and the

9 doors?

10 A. I don't know. They probably had some kind of

11 glass. You couldn't have a window without the glass.

12 Q. This is not what I asked you. Was there any

13 glass on the window and the doors of the Lager?

14 A. I cannot tell you that. I never paid any

15 attention to that. I never entered the place; do you

16 understand me?

17 Q. Can you see that facility from the road?

18 A. Yes, you can.

19 Q. Is it close to the road?

20 A. Yes, it is.

21 Q. How come you didn't see that there were

22 windows and doors on the Lager?

23 A. I just told you, I didn't pay much attention

24 to details on that day. I never thought that I would

25 end up here before the Tribunal. I couldn't have

1 imagined that, and I was so disappointed by my

2 neighbours, because all the things they did to us.

3 I would like to ask them the same question.

4 Once again, why? What was the reason why they behaved

5 the way they did? How come they killed 120 innocent

6 people in one afternoon? You're trying to provoke me

7 here, and I'm telling you the truth. I made a solemn

8 declaration, and I'm a religious person, and I'm

9 telling you what I saw.

10 I would like to ask the accused, I don't care

11 if they walk tomorrow or not, I would just like to hear

12 the reason why they did this to us. We were such good

13 neighbours. We got along very well. I was friends

14 with Drago's mother, with his wife, with his brothers,

15 with everyone. They know very well that my husband, my

16 son, never created any problems for anyone. This is

17 the only thing I would like to know. I would like to

18 see one honest Croat who believes in God the way I

19 believe. I would like to hear him say why this was

20 destroyed, why this village was completely destroyed,

21 Zume, Krcevine, Polje, all the way up to the Upper

22 Ahmici? I would like to hear the reason why they did

23 this.

24 Was it because there was so much hatred in

25 these people? Why did they do this to us? This is the

1 only thing I'm interested in. I'm not accusing anyone

2 personally.

3 Q. Well, Madam, please be calm. Are you still

4 angry?

5 A. I'm not angry. I'm not an angry person. I'm

6 just bitter. I just haven't got over the members of my

7 family that were killed, and I have lost everything. I

8 spent 27 years in a marriage. I had a farm, and I lost

9 everything I had in the scope of one morning.

10 Q. You keep telling us about all these trifles,

11 and then when you were questioned about this event,

12 which I mentioned to you earlier, you present these

13 events, but then you didn't. You didn't mention all of

14 this. How come you remember today, without even

15 questions being put to you, as you were just telling

16 your story?

17 A. Let me still you one thing: I always told

18 this story, except that it wasn't important to enter it

19 in my statement, at least that's what I think. But

20 whenever I went to talk to people, I would always tell

21 them exactly about my life and what I had lived

22 through.

23 Q. When Aladin came to the vehicle, did he wait

24 for a long time before he entered?

25 A. No, just a little bit, just a few minutes.

1 We got in immediately, all of us. All of us boarded

2 the two vehicles.

3 Q. Yes, but before, you said that you waited

4 about 15 to 20 minutes?

5 A. Yes, we did, sir. We waited for UNPROFOR,

6 but when UNPROFOR came, we boarded quickly.

7 Q. Aladin, when he came, did he get into the

8 vehicle immediately or did he wait for some time?

9 A. Do you understand that if somebody is getting

10 into a vehicle before you, you have to wait for that

11 person to get into the vehicle, and only then can you

12 board a vehicle. He couldn't just jump into the

13 vehicle, like, out of the sky. What do you think?

14 When the other people got in, then Aladin got in too.

15 Q. We're not going to mention the names of your

16 husband and son, but could you tell us whether your

17 husband had a weapon?

18 A. No. My husband was only a worker, nothing

19 else.

20 Q. And your son?

21 A. My son, I said that he was a minor. He was

22 just about 18. It's not important. He was in some

23 kind of Territorial Defence.

24 Q. You want to say that he was a minor. When

25 did he become a member of the Territorial Defence; do

1 you know that?

2 A. I can't say that. I really don't know.

3 Q. Could you tell me, how could Aladin describe

4 Drago when he didn't know?

5 A. Aladin knew Drago very well.

6 Q. How come you know?

7 A. I know and Drago knows.

8 Q. I'm asking you, because before you said you

9 couldn't describe him, and today you say you know him

10 well, and you're saying the opposite. How do you know

11 that he knows Drago?

12 A. Because he was a guard there, and Drago went

13 by every day. Just as I would see him, Aladin would

14 see him, and he would see Aladin. That's the way it

15 was.

16 Q. Yes, but he was employed, and you can only

17 assume that. Just one more question: Could you please

18 repeat what Aladin said that Drago Josipovic told him?

19 A. Drago came with a group of soldiers, and he

20 locked him in there. That's what Aladin told me. I

21 swore that I would speak the truth. He locked him in,

22 and he said, "Whatever you see, no one will know,

23 because you will be the last one that we will kill."

24 Those are the words that he told me. Unfortunately,

25 Aladin is no longer with us today. He just asked him

1 to go to Smajla Ahmic's to get a pill, but they

2 wouldn't let him do that either, so Aladin stayed

3 there.

4 Q. You said a few minutes ago that Aladin

5 Karahodza was dead. When did you find out about his

6 death?

7 A. I don't recall that either.

8 Q. Did you change your statement after you found

9 out about Aladin Karahodza's death?

10 A. No, heaven forbid. I swear by everything

11 that I never changed my statement.

12 MR. SUSAK: Thank you, Mr. President. No

13 further questions.

14 JUDGE CASSESE: Thank you. I wonder whether

15 the Prosecutor would like to re-examine the witness?

16 MR. TERRIER: Yes, Your Honour, just for the

17 sake of the transcript, paragraph 18, I believe, at a

18 given point in time answering a question raised by

19 Mr. Susak, the witness first mentions a certain Drago

20 living opposite the facility and then mentions another

21 Drago. It might be worth asking the question.

22 Obviously, we're dealing with one in the same person.

23 JUDGE CASSESE: Yes. It might be better to

24 ask the question.

25 Re-examined by Mr. Terrier:

1 Q. This is my question: Witness BB, you

2 mentioned a person opposite the facility known as

3 Lager. What is that person's name?

4 A. Drago Josipovic.

5 MR. TERRIER: I have no further questions.

6 Thank you very much, Madam.

7 JUDGE CASSESE: Counsel Susak?

8 MR. SUSAK: Mr. President, since the

9 witness's statement differs from the testimony she has

10 given today, I would like to tender into evidence her

11 statement of the 3rd of September, 1995, and I would

12 like it to be admitted into evidence.

13 Could the usher kindly take this copy?

14 JUDGE CASSESE: What is the position of the

15 Prosecution? Is there any objection from the

16 Prosecution?

17 MR. TERRIER: None whatsoever, Your Honour.

18 JUDGE CASSESE: Yes. It is admitted into

19 evidence.

20 THE REGISTRAR: It will be Exhibit D4/4.

21 JUDGE CASSESE: Thank you. There are no

22 questions from the Court. I assume there's no

23 objection to the witness being released.

24 Witness BB, thank you so much, indeed, for

25 coming here to give evidence in court. You may now be

1 released. Thank you.

2 (The witness withdrew)

3 MR. TERRIER: Your Honour, whilst we're

4 waiting for the next witness to come in, may I raise

5 two questions in respect of the list for the witnesses

6 we have planned for this week?

7 JUDGE CASSESE: Please do.

8 MR. TERRIER: We had an investigator who was

9 in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the central region in

10 Ahmici last week and noted a few facts and made a few

11 observations, including those requested by Judge May,

12 in relation to the distances between several points,

13 distances that were recorded and put down on the map.

14 The investigator also made some photographs of specific

15 locations which were mentioned during the proceedings.

16 We wish to convey all the above facts and

17 observations to the Court, because they may be of

18 relevance for searching the truth and also in the

19 prospect of your future visit to Central Bosnia in ten

20 to twelve days' time.

21 If you agree to this, we'd like this witness

22 to come into Court, either late this week or early next

23 week, so as to submit those documents that he gathered

24 in Bosnia. We hadn't conveyed the name of this

25 investigator to the Court or to Defence counsel, but in

1 keeping with the Rules which were formulated at the

2 beginning of these proceedings, we ask for the

3 authorisation so as to have the witness called.

4 His name is Howard Tucker. He is an

5 investigator from the Office of the Prosecutor.

6 JUDGE CASSESE: Do you have a written

7 document, some statement, or a memorandum, a short

8 memorandum, so as to submit this to the Defence?

9 MR. TERRIER: We could ask him to draft a

10 short memo of what he did back in Bosnia and of what he

11 is going to report to you. This could be produced to

12 the Defence.

13 JUDGE CASSESE: We could have the witness

14 come in two days after the day on which the document,

15 the memorandum, would be submitted to the Defence,

16 which could give the Defence sufficient time for

17 preparation.

18 MR. TERRIER: Fine. I have a second

19 question, Your Honours, if you allow me to? As to the

20 list for this week, we have No. 15, Tone Bringa. It is

21 badly spelled, but the proper name is Tone Bringa. As

22 you know and as the Defence know, this person is an

23 anthropologist, she is Norwegian, she has been living

24 in the United States for some years, and we would like

25 her to come and testify for several reasons which I

1 would like to present to you very succinctly.

2 We heard that this witness, for very good

3 family reasons which I need not expand upon today, will

4 not be able to come either this week or next week,

5 regrettably so, but circumstances are such that she

6 can't come.

7 We would like her to come and testify because

8 she would be in a position to answer questions that the

9 Court is possibly going to ask itself and questions

10 that could be asked of various witnesses. They relate

11 to the way the relationships within the communities

12 evolved, especially so, the Croat and Muslim

13 communities in Central Bosnia from 1992 to 1993. She

14 is the author of a book that was published in 1995 at

15 the Princeton Publishing House in New Jersey entitled

16 "The Muslim Way." This book recapitulates the work

17 she carried out before the war in 1988 in a village

18 that was close to Kiseljak. It is a very specific

19 village which is of interest to us because in its

20 ethnic composition it was very close to the village of

21 Ahmici and, geographically speaking, it is very close

22 to Ahmici as well.

23 The witness, after the war broke out,

24 returned to that very same village in order to shoot a

25 film. It was shot in January and February 1993, and a

1 follow-up was done in April and May of the same year,

2 in 1993. It is entitled "We Are All Neighbours." It

3 is a 50-minute film which was produced by a British

4 house associated with the BBC and the film was

5 broadcast on the BBC.

6 This testimony is very interesting to us

7 inasmuch as it shows these neighbourhood relationships

8 in a village that was very much like Ahmici, a village

9 that we have been speaking about for three to four

10 weeks. This testimony, additionally, will show how

11 these good neighbourhood relationships evolved in the

12 beginning of the war and really got worse and worse as

13 the war went on in 1993.

14 As the Court said on several occasions, it is

15 eager to establish the truth, and even though this

16 testimony may not be absolutely of paramount

17 importance, it may be used in establishing the truth as

18 such.

19 Given the situation we find ourselves in, and

20 I submit this to the appreciation of the Defence

21 counsel, I have the feeling that this Court could

22 receive the book and the film that was made by Tone

23 Bringa; then, at a later stage and if necessary,

24 possibly before the Defence case or even after the

25 Defence case and upon request by Your Honours, say

1 towards the end of this year (sic), this person could

2 be summoned to testify and to be cross-examined by the

3 Defence, by both parties.

4 We believe this would be useful information,

5 very precious information indeed, and it would be a

6 pity to do without it given the circumstances we find

7 ourselves in.

8 JUDGE CASSESE: So what do you suggest?

9 MR. TERRIER: So that we do tender into

10 evidence this book published by Princeton Publishing

11 House and possibly to have the film, the video film

12 which was produced and made by the witness, future

13 witness, for that to be also tendered into evidence or

14 it could even be shown today. That film was shown on

15 the BBC.

16 JUDGE CASSESE: We could have this, this

17 week?

18 MR. TERRIER: Yes, this week or next week,

19 according to your wishes.

20 MR. RADOVIC: Mr. President --

21 THE INTERPRETER: Microphone for the counsel.

22 MR. RADOVIC: Mr. President ...

23 JUDGE CASSESE: Counsel Radovic?

24 MR. RADOVIC: Mr. President, first of all,

25 please do not get angry, but we object to your starting

1 deliberating about the decision before we manage to

2 state our point of view, and the Defence --

3 JUDGE MAY: Mr. Radovic, we were not

4 deliberating, we were merely discussing the submission

5 that had been made. Of course we would have heard you

6 before we come to a decision. You needn't worry about

7 that.

8 MR. RADOVIC: Thank you. So the balance is

9 established -- is being respected. It is Counsel

10 Pavkovic who will state our point of view.

11 MR. PAVKOVIC: Good afternoon,

12 Mr. President. You did not really request our opinion,

13 and my colleague, Mr. Radovic, announced me as a

14 speaker. Do you allow me to address the Court on this

15 issue?

16 JUDGE CASSESE: Of course, yes.

17 MR. PAVKOVIC: Let me say that we have only

18 now learned about this particular issue stated by the

19 Prosecutor. Of course, everything that is conducive to

20 establishing the truth and everything that is part of a

21 fair trial is acceptable to the Defence. However, in

22 order for us to advance our opinion on this, we would

23 need to be familiar with the contents of the film and

24 the book. If this witness is going to be requested to

25 confirm certain of her views that are propounded in the

1 book, we would have to receive that in due course. We

2 would need certain time to go through this material and

3 only then would we be able to express our view.

4 This is all I can tell you right now at this

5 particular moment. We cannot say anything else before

6 we get the material, before we learn something more

7 about the contents of the film and the book.

8 JUDGE CASSESE: Thank you, Counsel Pavkovic.

9 I think the Court agrees with you. The Prosecutor

10 should turn over to the Defence counsel both the book

11 and the film maybe today, as soon as possible, in any

12 case, and then maybe next week you can state your

13 position to see whether you can tell us whether or not

14 you object to the book and the film being presented in

15 court. In any case, we will then decide what to do.

16 All right. So I hope the Defence -- I see

17 that Mr. Terrier agrees.

18 As for the other witness, the investigator,

19 we agree that the Defence should, as soon as possible,

20 receive a written statement. However, I hope that the

21 Prosecution are aware that the list of witnesses now is

22 long and it becomes even longer, and in addition, don't

23 forget that we will probably, towards the end of this

24 week or next week, hear the lady whom the Court has

25 called as a Court witness. We will know tomorrow

1 morning about that. So, therefore, it's for you to

2 decide. In any case, we have to finish on Friday of

3 next week at lunchtime because probably in the

4 afternoon we will have the Defence conference or

5 pre-Defence conference, I think it's called.

6 MR. TERRIER: Let me note that the list is

7 now shorter because No. 15 is out of the list and

8 because the Norwegian anthropologist will not come.

9 But, indeed, we are having a fresh look at the list,

10 and we will see whether we can make it so that some

11 witnesses are not called, then we will do so.

12 I also point out that if we have this

13 investigator, it will be a very short testimony because

14 he hasn't got much to say. The only thing he has to do

15 is to convey to the Court the result of his work in

16 Ahmici.

17 JUDGE CASSESE: Fine. So we will move on to

18 Witness No. 4.

19 MR. TERRIER: Yes, on the list it is No. 4

20 with the usual protective measures. His or her

21 pseudonym will be CC.

22 (The witness entered court)

23 JUDGE CASSESE: Good afternoon, Witness CC.

24 Could you please make the solemn declaration?

25 THE WITNESS: I solemnly declare that I will

1 speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the

2 truth.

3 JUDGE CASSESE: Thank you. You may be

4 seated.

5 WITNESS: WITNESS CC

6 Examined by Mr. Terrier:

7 Q. Madam, I have written down your name on this

8 piece of paper. I am asking you to merely confirm that

9 it is indeed your name.

10 A. Yes.

11 THE REGISTRAR: The document will be marked

12 Exhibit P257.

13 MR. TERRIER:

14 Q. Keeping with your request, the Court ruled

15 that the protective measures you requested were

16 granted. This means that your face and your name will

17 not be disclosed outside of this courtroom. You are

18 therefore safely protected. You can feel free to give

19 your testimony and to recount the events that you

20 witnessed.

21 With your agreement, Your Honour, we could

22 move to closed session for a few moments so that I can

23 show you the house in which this witness lived in

24 Ahmici?

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22 Q. Madam, can you tell us about the events of

23 the 16th of April, 1993, as precisely as you can?

24 A. On the 16th of April, 1993, around 6.00,

25 maybe ten minutes past 6.00, we woke up to the sound of

1 shooting and explosions.

2 We got up. We started getting ready, getting

3 dressed, and then we got out of the room where we were

4 sleeping and moved to another room where my parents

5 were getting ready. So we went towards the door, we

6 wanted to go outside, but we didn't manage to get out

7 because before we reached the door, we had looked

8 through the window -- there was one window on the

9 corridor -- so we opened the window and we realised

10 that houses were already on fire in Ahmici.

11 We were watching that --

12 JUDGE CASSESE: Sorry. Counsel Radovic?

13 MR. RADOVIC: Mr. President, I would kindly

14 ask my learned colleague from the Prosecution to warn

15 the witness that she should use the first person

16 singular because she keeps saying "we." So we're not

17 quite clear what refers to whom. I don't know whether

18 she means herself or other members of her family. She

19 said "We opened the window." I mean, it's obvious that

20 only one person opened the window, and there are more

21 examples of that. So I would kindly ask the witness to

22 use the first person singular.

23 JUDGE CASSESE: Thank you.

24 MR. TERRIER: Well, it's the family spirit

25 prevailing here, you see?

1 JUDGE CASSESE: I think that Mr. Radovic is

2 right. You should ask the witness to express herself

3 not on everybody's behalf but on her own behalf.

4 MR. TERRIER: All I wanted to say is that she

5 was evoking a family tragedy, so when she says "we,"

6 she mentions the family and more so her brother and

7 herself. What I also mean by that is that she is not

8 trying to hide behind this "we," behind other people,

9 but I do realise what is being said, and I shall invite

10 the witness to take Mr. Radovic's remark into account.

11 Q. Madam Witness, can you please describe the

12 events using the first person?

13 A. I returned to my room and I spent some time

14 there just sitting. Then I heard steps, military

15 boots, soldiers who were walking around the house, and

16 they came to the window of the room where I was

17 sitting. There were iron bars on the window and there

18 was also glass on the window, and they started kicking

19 the window and hitting the window with the rifles

20 butts. The glass of the window broke, and at that

21 moment, I said something to the effect that we should

22 go out. But they said that they would not throw a hand

23 grenade in the house. This is how it happened. This

24 is how I got out of the house.

25 I opened the door, the entrance door to the

1 house, and I got out. There were two soldiers standing

2 in front of the house of Husein Ahmic. They looked at

3 us, and they told us, "Hands up." They also told us to

4 bend our heads and not to look around. And this is

5 what I did. I bent my head and I got out of the house.

6 As I was getting out, I saw that Zec

7 Sabahudin and his wife and daughter were lying in front

8 of the house, so I could see them right away. When I

9 started walking, my family, the rest of my family

10 followed me, and we went around our house.

11 These two soldiers who threw the hand

12 grenade, they came to the house, behind the house, and

13 they told us to leave and they told my father to stay.

14 They said he should stay with them.

15 I was the first one in the line. I was very

16 afraid, I was frightened.

17 Q. Madam, take your time.

18 JUDGE CASSESE: Shall we take a break? Ten

19 minutes?

20 MR. TERRIER: Madam, we're going to have a

21 break, a short break.

22 THE WITNESS: No.

23 --- Recess taken at 2.55 p.m.

24 --- On resuming at 3.05 p.m.

25 (The witness entered court)

1 JUDGE CASSESE: Witness CC, do you feel

2 better?

3 THE WITNESS: Yes.

4 JUDGE CASSESE: Thank you.

5 MR. TERRIER:

6 Q. Madam, if you don't mind, we shall attempt to

7 resume the testimony. You were at the point where the

8 soldiers asked you to raise your hands. You had

9 stopped there. Would you mind resuming from there?

10 A. I raised my hands and we set out. In front

11 of the house, when we arrived in front of the house,

12 they left my father there, and they told me to run

13 wherever I could.

14 I was the first to leave. The two soldiers,

15 who were standing there by the house, they came to the

16 road, and then I turned around to see where my father

17 was. One of them told me not to turn around, that I

18 should run. I turned around and I ran. I didn't turn

19 my head again.

20 I came to the mosque. I passed by the

21 mosque, and then I ran towards the middle part of

22 Ahmici and towards Upper Ahmici.

23 MR. TERRIER: Please, Usher, can you help

24 me? I would like to show this photograph to the

25 witness.

1 Your Honour, is it possible to move to a

2 closed session, not only because this photograph will

3 identify the house mentioned by the witness earlier on,

4 but it might help the witness to feel better, given the

5 difficult circumstances of her testimony.

6 JUDGE CASSESE: Fine. Let's move to a closed

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15 --- Whereupon the hearing adjourned at

16 5.05 p.m., to be reconvened on

17 Wednesday, the 7th day of October, 1998

18 at 9.30 a.m.