FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

Committee for Collecting Data on Crimes

Committed Against Humanity and International Law

B e l g r a d e

On August 4, 1995, members of the Croatian army launched an attack from a number of directions, including from Croatia and areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina occupied earlier - Grahovo and Glamoč - on the Republic of Serbian Krajina in which Serbs lived, and in addition to military operations also systematically destroyed civilian buildings and property and killed many civilians, primarily old men, women and children.

With an overwhelmingly superior military & police force, constantly shelling the entire territory of Krajina, they forced those civilians who had not been killed right away to leave their homes and flee as refugees.

Although refugees proceeding aboard tractors, animal-drawn carts, motor vehicles and even on foot were in plain sight, the Croatian forces kept shelling them from artillery weapons or bombing them from aircraft, launching even infantry attacks at some places.

The consequences of the military attacks on the column of refugees were particularly in evidence in the area around Glina, on the Glina - Dvor road and during their movement through the Republic of Srpska. The sites of attacks were strewn with bodies, destroyed vehicles, various objects lying around, and these were all removed by members of the Croatian police and army after they had prohibited international observers and UN force members any access to such places, and for which they obviously had teams prepared in advance.

A part of the column which trudged on along the highway through Croatia was systematically attacked also by the Croatian population although the Croatian authorities had given assurances, through the UN representative, for their unhindered passage. The attacks were the worst in Sisak, where people pulled Serbs out of the column, beat them up and even killed some of them. They stoned their vehicles and looted their property, all this in the presence of members of the Croatian police and army who, instead of ensuring safe passage for the column, as had been guaranteed, stood by and looked on.

So, having lost their homes, the people of Krajina were also stripped of what little belongings they had managed to bring along in haste.

As a consequence of these actions between 230,000 and 250,000 Serbs were banished from the Republic of Serbian Krajina.

Immediately after completing the military campaign, the Croatian military and police embarked on a series of measures to "sweep the terrain " in Serbian places throughout Krajina, as the final stage of the genocide over the Serbian people of Krajina, which consisted of the physical liquidation of those who had remained. As a rule these were elderly people who had stayed behind to look after their property and the homes of their birth, or because they could not move on account of old age and infirmity. They were killed en masse most often on their very doorsteps, all their property was looted and what remained was set to fire. Looting, arson, the demolition of houses and the killing of the remaining civilians were carried out (and are still being carried out) in systematic fashion, with the removal of all traces of the act.

Members of international humanitarian organizations and international observers very often saw the consequences of these actions for themselves.

The witnesses who have been heard stated, inter alia, that members of the Croatian military and police killed even Serbs over the age of 70, as well as women. Most of these persons were killed in a brutal way and their disfigured bodies were left to lie in the fields where they had been working the land, on their doorsteps, or were burned in the houses which were set on fire. Among the reported cases are those of a ninety-year old woman who was slaughtered in her house, of a group of people who were tied up, killed and set on fire, of a blind old woman who was shot dead in the back of the head, of the killing of people by chopping their heads and arms off, the killing of people with axes, the placing of a sheep gut over the head of people before killing them, etc.

After taking Krajina, the Croatian authorities arrested a large number of people and confined them to camps where they were subjected to extremely brutal treatment, for which purposes they had in fact adapted schools and sports halls. The number of the remaining Serbs who were arrested is not known. Larger detention centres were in Zadar, Šibenik, Split, Knin, Sisak, Karlovac, Kutina, Gospić, Novska, Ivanić Grad and Sinj. The prisoners in those camps were tortured and inhumanely treated and exposed to all sorts of pressures. Representatives of international humanitarian or other organizations were not allowed access to some of these camps.

The looting, the destruction of their homes and households during and after the Croatian military campaign forced the Serbs to leave an area in which they had lived for centuries (written records about the Serbs in these parts are dated to 822; the regions of Lika, Kordun, Banija and Slavonija were settled by the Serbs in larger numbers in the 16^th and 17^th centuries - at the invitation of the Austrian emperors), and nurtured a specific culture on the crossroads between Orthodoxy and Catholicism. The Serbian people was compelled to also leave its shrines - its churches and monasteries,museums, its historic monuments and rich repositories of their cultural and artistic heritage, as well as the graves of their ancestors. They also left behind about 950 cultural monuments, 80 libraries and over 122 schools.

Observed in conjunction with the data provided in the previous reports of the Committee, this clearly attests to a continuous pattern of persecution of Serbs since the time of the creation of the independent Croatia. The establishment of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ - CDU) party, the referendum, and other actions of the Croatian political leaders before the outbreak of civil war were attended by a menacing and aggressive political propaganda against the Serbs. On their electoral victory and assumption of power, the CDU set out to implement a programme designed to cleanse Croatia of Serbs, everywhere and barring none. Serbs became the object of verbal abuse and physical assault: in the street, in the stores, at their places of work, in their homes and flats; graffiti were written, arms were looked for, snipers were fabricated, threats were levelled by telephone, messages were sent to them demanding that they leave Croatia, the flats of Serbs were marked, their telephones were bugged and disconnected, statements of allegiance were demanded from them, their apartments were searched with no legal grounds, individuals were viciously beaten up, dismissed from work, all this followed by a second stage involving arrests and killings.

In some areas the Serbs were in fact liquidated en masse, for instance in Pakračka Poljana, Marino Selo, in Western Slavonia, in Vukovar, Osijek, Gospić, Sisak, Zadar, Brod, Zagreb, Split and other places. The property of the Serbs - their apartments, houses, vacationing cottages, shops, as well as their cultural and historical monuments were blown up and demolished in many places, in pursuit of the ultimate objective of eliminating Serbs from Croatia altogether. In some communities (Dubrovnik and Zagreb) there were also actions to convert the Serbs to Catholicism.

All actions directed at the Serbs were coordinated by the top state authorities of Croatia with the intention of completely eliminating the Serbs as a national, ethnic and religious group in Croatia or reducing their number to a negligible one. The remaining Serbs in Croatia were put in such living conditions which could only lead to their extermination as a national, ethnic or religious group.

All this clearly indicates that a systematic and deliberate campaign was and is being waged in Croatia to completely extirpate the Serbs from Croatia, orchestrated by the party in power in Croatia.

As a result of the genocidal campaign of the Croatian authorities, from a constituent element of Croatian statehood, the Serbs have become a minority, having been reduced from 12% to at maximum 3 % of the population of Croatia.

The data presented here are primarily based on the statements of eyewitnesses. They can be supplemented by evidence gathered by United Nations members as well as by representatives of other international organizations.

The column of refugees fleeing from Krajina through Glina was intercepted and attacked and many civilians were killed. After that a part of them, on the basis of an agreement UNPROFOR had brokered with the Croatian authorities in respect of their route, continued on their way to Petrinja, Sisak and further on through Croatia, along the Zagreb-Belgrade highway.

The witnesses, people who were among these refugees described what they had gone through:

My unit found itself surrounded near Topusko. Then, UNPROFOR brokered negotiations between colonel Čedo Bulat and the Croatian general Stipetić who set the condition that we were to surrender all heavy and light armaments or the Croatian army would attack the column of civilian refugees which was on the road leading from Vrginmost to Glina and Žirovac and Dvor na Uni.

Čedo Bulat decided that we should surrender our weapons, which we did, and I reached Glina with a column of tanks where we handed over the ordnance. The negotiations lasted for three days, August 7,8 and 9, 1995. However, the Croats did not abide by the agreement and their army massacred the civilians in the column, as I found out later.

After we had surrendered our tanks in Glina some of us changed into civilian clothes and some remained in uniforms, and we set off via Glina-Petrinja-Mošćenica and to the Zagreb - Belgrade highway.

In August 1995 when Krajina was attacked by the Croatian armed forces, I fled. My family was in the column of refugees aboard a tractor with trailer. Near Glina they cut off part of the column and a number of refugees, including my family, turned back.

Between Glina and Topusko the Croatian army had laid contact mines to prevent the column from moving. But that was not the only woe which befell the refugees in the column. Members of the Croatian army in camouflage uniforms attacked the civilians, robbed them and took whatever they felt like from the tractor trailers, and then pushed the trailers to the side of the road, smashed them, turned them over, burned them. Then with heavy-duty machinery they rammed them into the ground and buried them under a thick layer of earth.

Such was the fate of my family also. We lost our tractor, trailer and all our belongings that we had taken along.

Two women from the refugee column who were a bit more composed and courageous, were bold enough to ask the commander of the Croatian unit to return the tractors. He was very displeased. He ordered that they both be taken prisoner and it was done. They were M. and Lj., between 40 and 50 years of age. They ended up in the camp in Karlovac.

Then my family joined M.L. who had miraculously managed to keep his tractor, so that we rode on it a bit, but we walked most of the way beside the tractor and that is how we got to Sisak. There they stoned us. They hurled stones at us all the time.

With the other peasants we set out in a convoy, riding on tractors. There were also carts and cars in the convoy. Very few of the refugees were young people. When we got to Glina uniformed Moslems and Croats cut the column apart. They started shooting. I and the rest of my family leaped off the tractor. Two buses came along. In the general mess and commotion I managed to shove my granddaughter and wife into a bus. The bus was full of dead bodies because we came under fire from all directions. The buses left in the direction of Topusko.

A day later UNPROFOR troops appeared making it possible for the column to pass through from Topusko to Glina. As we passed by the very spot where the night before Croats and Moslems had jointly attacked us, I saw both of my tractors smashed by bulldozer and lying in a heap by the road as well as all our things. Everything was destroyed and scattered about, not only my two tractors, but also the carts and the automobiles, everything which had been in the column.

I got aboard a bus and we set off for Belgrade via Sisak. A large group of people beside the highway attacked our convoy. They hurled stones at us. People in the cars and on the tractors were injured and the windshield of our bus was broken. The driver and several other people on the bus were hurt.

That night I saw many wounded and killed women, old men and children near Glina. I cannot say how many of them there were. It was dark. They shot at us from all directions and all hell broke loose in the column. I was lucky to survive as I managed to get on one of the two buses that had come along.

We reached Topusko with the column and on August 9 we set off from there for Glina. In Glina Croatian soldiers awaited us, who threatened us, spat on us, reviled us.

Continuing our journey we passed through Petrinja and on the same day, August 9, we came near Sisak, where a crowd of young people awaited us, hurled stones at us breaking all the windows on our car, make "Yugo". We had to duck to avoid being hit.

At a certain point my daughter started screaming and I saw that my mother had been hit above the right eye and that she was bleeding but we had nothing to stanch the gushing blood with except for a towel. We were surrounded by members of the Croatian army who would not let us get out of the car but forced us to drive on.

Approaching Sisak, we came across UNPROFOR troops standing with Croatian army soldiers who were shouting threats at us, and the UNPROFOR men just stood there laughing, so that we did not dare ask them for help.

My mother, Desanka Komadina from Donje Budačke near Karlovac, born in 1924, was injured by a stone on August 9 around 7 p.m., and she died the next morning about 6 a.m. in Županja. She was a healthy woman. Two stones which hit her were found in the car next to her seat: one the size of an egg and the other larger than a fist, with sharp edges.

Due to an injury I was at the Topusko spa for rehabilitation. It was August 1995. There was shooting from every conceivable quarter. At a certain point I decided to go home. I set off through Glina. I did not know that the town had fallen. They caught me right away. They placed a knife to my throat, fired shots above my head, beat me, hitting me mostly in the head, and also in the body and legs. They threatened me and dragged me hither and thither through the town from noon till midnight. Then they let me go but they told me that they would certainly get me and that I would be executed. They were Croatian soldiers in camouflage suits.

I managed to pull out of Glina and rerntu to Topusko. Five days passed. It was horrible, there was no water, no food, no lights. We were encircled, and so I joined a convoy of refugees moving on the highway bound for Zagreb and Belgrade.

My condition in consequence of all this is very grave. I no longer can sleep. Sometimes during the day I am so high-strung that I could roll on the floor. I am on a number of medicaments prescribed to me by my doctor. I regularly see a psychiatrist, but the anxiety persists. I do not know if and when I will recover. Six months have passed and still there is no improvement. In Petrinja I was a very good pupil and now I am barely managing.

On August 6, 1995, I was in a position near Topusko with my unit. We could hear women and children crying and the sound of tractor engines all day long.

Three days passed. On August 9 we were given the order to surrender our weapons and to set off for Yugoslavia. I joined the column of refugees.

Near Glina the column was broken in upon and later I saw tractor trailers and various objects scattered about on the left and right sides of the road. They were all damaged.

After we passed through Petrinja we came across a military vehicle with several Croatian soldiers in camouflage suits on it. When they neared us they stopped and said to us: "Serbs, we want to cut your throats". I was petrified with fear. In front of us they started discussing the way in which they would slay us. Fortunately a police car came by and they defended us.

They held us outside Topusko for three days and four nights. A column of refugees formed there and then we set out towards Glina. My car broke down and I, my wife and our three children had to board a trailer. It took us three days to cover a distance of 250 kilometers through Croatia. Although we were escorted by international forces all the time there were numerous incidents on the way. The Croats stoned our column all along the route.

our village came under shellfire and my neighbours started leaving. My neighbour asked me: "What are you waiting for?" So, aboard a tractor, I and my wife joined the column of Serbian refugees.

From Utinja the column made its way to Vrginmost and en route the train of civilians came under cannon fire, but I did not see whether anyone was wounded or killed then.

From Vrginmost we continued towards Topusko, where we were held for three days and then proceeded along the Glina-Petrinja-Sisak road.

When we arrived at Glina a Croatian soldier armed with an automatic rifle came up to me saying to one of his fellow- soldiers, pointing at me , "let us do away with the old man", but his comrade prevented him from killing me.

The train of Serbian civilians came under an avalanche of stones as it was passing through Sisak. I was exposed to it a number of times and two or three stones hit me causing injuries. My wife was also hit and her glasses were broken.

As we were passing through Kutina we were also hurled stones at and the crowd shouted at us disparagingly "Gypsies! Gypsies!"

Along the way many tractors and other vehicles broke down but the soldiers and military police allowed no repairs or delays, but forced the Serbs to move on by hook or by crook. So those whose vehicles had broken down had to board other vehicles, leaving their own behind by the road with all their belongings.

As we were passing through Sisak on October 10,1995 , civilians threw stones at us.

The driver and the passengers of a truck belonging to the Agricultural Cooperative in Vrgin Most were pulled out, the truck was plundered, and they had to find other transportation in the train of tractors.

We travelled through Croatia for two days and two nights around the clock with no rest.

I was on a tractor with another four or five people, and when the column reached Sisak, at a certain moment a Croatian policeman whacked me from the back in the nape of the neck with a stick, cursing my Chetnik mother. The wound I sustained bled for two hours after that.

We set off in a column and were intercepted first in Glina, on August 6, 1995 where we were held for four days and were then told that we could proceed in the direction of Sisak escorted by UNPROFOR.

At Sisak the column came under a hailstorm of stones, my car windows were shattered and I was hit in the head by a stone. Many people in the column were injured. Others were injured much worse than I was.

The column was broken in upon in front of Glina. The people were panic-stricken. Shooting and explosions reverberated from Glina. We stayed there for three days and three nights during which time negotiations were being conducted between the Croatian authorities, UNPROFOR and our own representatives. Later we found out that passage across Croatian territory would be allowed.

I returned then to Topusko which had been raided by Croatian forces which terrorized the population.

A number of our soldiers had kept their weapons and were to secure the column. They were captured, some of them were later released, and others remained imprisoned. I have no idea what became of them.

Simo Krnjić from Slunj was killed then. When the train of refugees set off from Topusko for Glina, it took us a full 24 hours to cover a distance of 12 kilometers. Then we proceeded to Petrinja. En route the Croats subjected us to various psychological pressures. There was an UNPROFOR checkpoint at the exit from Petrinja, but only the Croatian police maintained contact with them. It was then that we observed that they were on intimate terms with the Croatian police.

Once in Sisak they led us through the iron works in Sisak, and from there we set out for Popovača where we were stopped.

En route the column of Serbs was maltreated by the Croats. Their tractors were seized. For instance they seized the tractor of Stevo Gušić from Vojnić.

They maltreated us as a rule at night and the police turned on flashing rotating lights to distract attention from the ordeal of the Serbs in the column as much as possible.

I set out from Vojnići with a column of refugees on August 6, 1995 with my husband and two children. When we reached Glina the column was broken in upon. I heard that a number of persons at the head of the column had been killed. For two days we waited in the forests for negotiations to take place and then they let us move on through Petrinja towards Sisak and on to Serbia.

As our convoy was approaching Sisak we came under a hailstorm of stones hurled at us by the Croatian population. The first stone hit my child in the head and and tore her flesh at the temple. The child of B. M. was also hurt.

Until August 4, 1995 I lived in the village of Stipan, the commune of Vrgin Most, with my husband and two children.

In the afternoon of August 4, we set out aboard our tractor driven by my 16-year old son. With other refugees from Krajina we started in the direction of Glina. At Glina the Ustashi attacked us. First aircraft flew over the column and bombs landed. Then they shelled the column from the flanks.

It was about 8.30 p.m. when we reached the centre of Glina. There they cut the column. The crying and screams of old people and women could be heard. My brother-in-law shouted: "Run for your life, they will kill us all". Many people were killed then.

I took my 9-year old son and my brother’s child aged 10 and we started running, jumping over a woman lying on the ground. We ran across a bus with no lights on. The driver told us that he was going back to Topusko. We got on the bus and it took us through a forest from Glina to Topusko. It was night. The bus was packed with women, children and old people. We arrived at Topusko about 4 a.m. People asked UNPROFOR for help, but were told that UNPROFOR was waiting for authorization. Then we set off, aboard the bus, in the direction of a forest.

There we came across Moslems who shelled the column from all sides. The driver made a U-turn and drove us back to Topusko and we stayed there for two days and on the third day we set out in the direction of Glina on the highway leading from Zagreb to Belgrade.

The Croatian population and army, soldiers and civilians alike, threw stones at us as we were passing. Many of us sustained injuries, but we all took it silently. Once an armed Croatian soldier got into the bus, cocked his rifle and asked us where we were headed. No one replied.

The windows of the bus were smashed. When we arrived in Belgrade not a single window was whole.

We had to put the children beneath our legs and under the baggage to protect them from the stones. There were infants 5-6 months old among the children.

One woman buried a one-year old infant under a pile of diapers and it suffocated.

I was forced to flee to Serbia, and on August 4, I set out in my "Zastava 101" car. Through Croatia we moved in a convoy consisting of a large number of passenger and freight vehicles and tractors. Each convoy was led by a Croatian police vehicle. We travelled for three or four days and nights through Croatia to Lipovac. The Croats gave us drinking water, and those who took it would be "sleepy" afterwards, so that we concluded that some stupefying agent had been added to it.

As I was approaching Lipovac, three or four men brandishing some poles ran out of the dark and to my car and started whacking it, smashing all my windows and denting the body of the car.

When on August 6, 1995 they started shelling Vojnić we set out aboard a tractor with a convoy of refugees, bound for Glina and on for Sisak.

When we got to Staklenik the Croats attacked us, and my wife, who was on the tractor, started running away.

She was hurt on that occasion. Through UNPROFOR she returned back home to the village and is probably there now.

In the commotion I was separated from her and I continued the journey on somebody else’s trailer for I had had to leave mine behind in Staklenik. We continued our journey via Sisak towards Belgrade.

En route we came under a hailstorm of stones. Croatian civilians as well as uniformed members of the Croatian army and police hurled stones at the column. Many were hurt, having been hit in the head.

I packed what I could in a hurry, started the tractor and with my little son set out for Glina, where we were taken prisoner and to a camp.

Before we were captured, we came across Croatian soldiers and police and took to our heels back towards Topusko. They shot at the column from various weapons, many were killed and wounded.

On August 6, I set out towards Glina aboard my tractor. Croatian aircraft bombed us on the way. UNPROFOR had promised that they would protect us and escort us to the border. They, however, failed to show up so that we were left at the mercy of the Croatian army.

On August 7, 1995, I was taken prisoner by Croatian soldiers about one kilometer from Glina. Those Serbian soldiers who had managed to take off their uniforms and put on civilian clothes were fortunate, because all those in uniforms were beaten with rifle butts, kicked and hit with whatever they could lay their hands on.

They sat us on the ground with our hands behind our necks. They gave us neither food nor water.

Then Croatian military police came and locked us up in a shed and interrogated us there. They beat everyone whom they interrogated.

They would handcuff us in pairs, and when they ran out of handcuffs they used wire or a rope. Bound up like that we sat in the shed. There were some 50 of us.

I, my wife and our son set off in our automobile on August 6, 1995 in the direction of Banja Luka and caught up with a refugee convoy near Vrginmost. There were many refugees there, aboard animal-drawn carts, tractors and many walked.

As we were approaching Glina the Croatian army shelled the column and I saw two girls killed in a "Golf" automobile, which was in front of us and had Glina license plates.

We heard that the Croats had blown up the bridge near Dvor na Uni and that they were capturing Serbs, massively looting their property, seizing their cars, money and other valuables.

From Topusko we went back wending our way through the "Vranuša" forest. Then we heard that the head of the column had been broken in upon by the Fifth Moslem corps. Then Croatian troops surrounded our column and held us there for two days. I know that buses came to drive refugees away, whereas we who had tractors remained.

I saw the Ustashi single out a Serb from the column and take him away, I do not know his name, only that he never came back.

After that we set out for Glina. Behind a fence I saw a hanged man, and another one who had been decapitated.

Eventually we reached Glina escorted by Croatian police and moved on to Petrinja. In Petrinja I saw piles of stones heaped along both sides of the road. Standing by them were Croatian civilians hurling stones at the refugee column and swearing at them. I saw many damaged vehicles, with shattered windows, and I saw many people with head injuries.

On the highway leading through Croatia, whenever a tractor broke down, police would come with a tow truck and pull the tractors away in an unknown direction.

As I am disabled, I waited for two days to leave on a bus from Topovsko for Serbia. Some 300 people had gathered. There we were robbed by members of the Croatian army. They surrounded us and held us at rifle point for over an hour. They said all sorts of things to us.

Then the new mayor of Topovsko arrived. First he asked whether there were any Croats among us. No one answered in the affirmative. Then he asked before whom we were fleeing. The Croatian soldiers had dispersed by then.

This mayor told us that transportation had been secured for us to take us from Topovsko to Serbia and, during the day, eight buses of the "Čazmatrans” transport enterprise from Bjelovar really came and took us to Serbia.

We set out from the village of Čremušnica aboard a tractor. The convoy was long and there were many people with their families, both from my own and the nearby villages. We progressed normally until we were a few kilometers off Glina, on August 6 around 7.30 p.m., Croatian armed forces broke in upon the column and then a tractor with people on it was hit by a wasp some 50 meters in front of me. I could not see whose tractor it was, whether anyone had been killed, for the people were panic-stricken and running. I got off the tractor then, and, being disabled, laboriously made my way to another tractor where my wife was. I saw Croatian soldiers approaching us and shooting at the fleeing people or those who were around the tractors.

Then I saw one Croatian soldier coming towards me. I was sitting. He approached me and directed his automatic rifle at my face. He was about 6 meters away. He opened fire. I was hit in the mouth and the bullet pierced my mouth from the right side and exited at the left side of my face, above my left eye. I felt a burning sensation and dizziness and then that soldier opened fire again and a bullet hit me in the shoulder. I lost consciousness and I do not remember what happened afterwards. I woke up sometime in the night. I was unable to get up. I was gravely wounded. The left side of my face was paralyzed. Somehow I managed to prop myself up against a tractor wheel. Then I heard voices calling me. Seriously wounded as I was I was unable to respond. I learned from P.M. that Ranka Radanović, Milka Radanović and Stevan Komadina had been hit standing by the tractor and that they no longer showed signs of life and that many people had been injured.

I then looked around for my wife. I somehow managed to drag myself to the end of the trailer but she was not there. Two Croatian soldiers approached me and I asked them to kill me, for it was better to put an end to all that misery. They said nothing. They walked away and brought a stretcher and I soon found myself in an ambulance. They took me to hospital in Sisak and placed me on a table and took my clothes off. My clothes were all bloodstained. There were Croatian policemen there who started questioning me about who had organized the columns and other things. I was unable to answer.

The next day they transferred me in an ambulance to the Rebro Hospital in Zagreb, and then the Dubrava hospital, where they operated on me twice, the second time on December 16, 1995. Croatian police came there again. They told me I had been declared a war criminal. I said to them that I was an invalid and therefore exempted from military service and that I had not been in action.

When the people started running away I had no means of transportation and I had to carry my husband on my back because he had had a stroke and some people admitted me to their tractor trailer.

During the night the column stopped as we were approaching Glina. Then the shooting started. The convoy was attacked by Croats. As the convoy stopped, all the people scrambled every which way getting out of their cars and leaping off the tractors and lorries to the right and left of the road to find shelter. I stayed beside the tractor trailer all night for I could not leave my immobile husband.

As I spent the whole night on the road I could see Croatian soldiers killing and slaughtering our people who had taken cover by the road. They mostly used knives. That night many people were killed or injured. Children screamed. Hearing them cry out for help I was totally lost and practically driven out of my mind.

We stayed in Topusko for two or three days and then set out through Croatia on a bus. En route Croatian civilians hurled stones at the bus. They aimed through the windows. A large number of people were injured.

An elderly woman who was sitting behind me in the bus was hit in the head with a stone and died from the injuries.

We started our journey with a refugee convoy on August 6,1995. There were a total of 13 persons aboard the tractor I was driving.

As we were approaching Glina I heard that the column had been cut apart and surrounded by the Croatian army. The people from the column ran for their lives, leaving the tractors behind. Several days later we were told that we could proceed to Serbia on the Glina-Petrinja-Sisak road. I was in the second group which included about 500 vehicles. In front of Petrinja the convoy was stopped.

There three Croat civilians pulled me out, cursing my Chetnik mother and saying: "now you will see who the Ustashi are, when we slit your throat". They sent me flying down on the ground and started kicking me, shouting "slaughter the Chetnik". I somehow managed to shield myself and I grabbed hold of the automobile door, but these three Croats tugged at my trousers and tore off one trouser leg which remained in their hands while I managed to jump into a car.

In front of me in the convoy was a truck with trailer which was stopped at Lipovača. On that occasion I saw an elderly woman being taken out of the truck, she was dead. The driver told me that she had been killed by a concrete block which the Croats had thrown on the tarpaulin as the truck was passing under a bridge and it hit her in the head. The women was about 60 years old.

En route the Croats hurled all sorts of objects at us, stones, bricks, tiles. All the vehicles in our convoy were damaged. The windows of the van belonging to my neighbour B.D. were all smashed and he himself sustained head injuries.

I was in a convoy which the Croats had allowed to pass through Sisak and Croatia on the way to Yugoslavia. Croats standing by the roadside hurled stones at the column. It was the most dramatic near Sisak. In Sisak itself the Croatian police did not intervene at all. I saw five people die in the column, either owing to injuries or other reasons. I do not know their identities. I saw their bodies being carried away.

As for property, all I had remained in Croatia - my old house and the new one which was under construction, as well as 13 acres of land. I came to Yugoslavia even without my personal papers.

When on August 8, 1995, going from Glina, we were approaching Dvor na Uni, at dusk, our column was ambushed and attacked. At that moment I was walking beside my tractor. I was gravely injured in both legs, and my friend J.D. who was quite near was also injured, while a third lad who was with us was killed.

It was only in Belgrade that I regained consciousness; I was at the Military Hospital, they had amputated my right leg, and the left one is in very bad shape.

Within a radius of 50 m. I saw them kill five persons and wound B.B. from Karlovac, whom I knew.

On the morrow I saw about 15 bodies of killed civilians, among whom women, on the same spot.

The column came under attack on August 7 in Brezovo Polje on the road between Glina and Žirovac. A large number of civilians were killed then. There were children, women and adult men among them.

This column had been moving in the direction of Bosanski Novi. I was on a horse-drawn cart.

When the convoy reached Glina, the town was already under a hailstorm of shells so that we moved on to Brezovo Polje. There I saw a shell land on a factory killing one woman. We spent the night at Brezovo Polje and the next day reached a place called Žirovac where we came under heavy fire of the Moslems and the Croats and where the column was broken in upon. I was somewhere in the middle of the column, and the largest number of people were killed in the section behind me and I doubt it that anyone of them managed to escape.

One tractor with trailer was hit from an aircraft and blown to smithereens. None of the people who were riding on it survived.

As the convoy moved on from Žirovac I saw many dead people along and not far from the road, among whom there were many children.

When we passed through Brod and were crossing the bridge, I also saw, on the bridge itself as well as before and after it, many dead and wounded people and large quantities of abandoned weapons.

I remember a wounded man stretching out his arms towards me for help, but I did not help him, I was neither in a position to nor did I have the time for that.

We were mostly bombarded by Croatian aircraft, but we also came under artillery fire.

Stevo Vorkapić from Vorkapić near Vrginmost was killed in the convoy, as well as a man named Matija from the village of Katinovac near Vrginmost.

We set out on our escape journey early in the morning at 4 o’ clock. We reached Glina quite quickly. We could hear cannon fire as we travelled.

In the morning of August 7, 1995 as we were approaching Žirovac the convoy came under attack again. I rode on a tractor and I saw the bodies of killed women. At least four of them. I did not recognize them.

We lived in the village of Brdo Selo until August 4,1995 when we fled aboard two tractors with trailers. In Glina the column of refugees which we were part of came under artillery fire. We fled in the direction of Žirovac and were again shelled on the way.

At Žirovac they also attacked us about 10 in the morning. I saw six people, men, women and children killed before my very eyes. The sight was terrible. The Serbs from the column scattered in every direction and I stayed put, as I only have one leg and could not move with a stick and crutch.

I also saw three wounded men. Two were wounded in the chest and the third one in the left leg and they were all desperately crying for help. They bled profusely.

In this attack my family lost both tractors and both trailers and all our belongings that we had taken along.

In the court record dated March 12,1996 the investigative judge of the District Court of Kruševac established that the witness had stated the following:

"I intend to return to Croatia. I would rather not give testimony about what happened to the column of refugees". After having been apprised of the obligations of witnesses she said: "I anyway stick to my decision not to testify. I hope that you will appreciate my reasons".

The investigative judge then established that the witness had been crying in the courtroom throughout the proceedings.

The aggression of the Croatian army on Krajina found me in Vrgin Most where I had been living till then also. On August 6, in the afternoon, I and a woman neighbour set off aboard a tractor in the direction of Glina. We arrived at Glina in the evening and I saw that the column of refugees had been cut apart by an attack of the Croatian army from a nearby forest.

Among the dead I recognized Bogdan Arlov, Nenad Borat, Ljubica Janić, Simo Jovanović, Stevan Komadina, Ljubica Kortuk, Adam Linta, Maca Mraović, Mile Mraović, Dušan Nišić, Sveta Novaković, Ranka Radanović, Ljubica Radojčević, Miljkan Radojčević, Stanko Stanojević, Mara Torbica, Marica Torbica, and I also saw many others whose names I do not know.

After Žirovac, en route to Dvor na Uni, Croat and Moslem troops attacked us jointly. The people in the column were gripped by panic and terror. We had to abandon our tractors and vehicles and we crossed the bridge on the Una river on foot and arrived at Bosanski Novi.

"...When people started to flee, everyone brought along what they could. My family and I moved via Topusko, Glina and Žirovac towards Dvor na Uni. Before entering Dvor na Uni, the column was attacked. Many were dead and wounded. Croat soldiers killed Miladin Vergaš, around 55 years of age, from the village of Pecka near Vrginmost. My brother and sister-in-law were captured and taken to the Sisak camp.

We all fled the way we could. Panic-stricken and scared, no one paid any attention to anyone. I fled with my children and it was only them I never left. I would not be separated from them at any cost since they only had me (their mother had died earlier). I failed to take anything with me, not even personal documents.

In my village I left behind 4 cows and 19 pigs, a tractor and other agricultural machines. As I had no fuel, I could not take the tractor. I have learned that everything was plundered..."

"...In early August 1995 my husband and I left our house. We were withdrawing with other people and near Dvor na Uni Croat soldiers stopped the column. People panicked and ran. Croat soldiers shot at us. My husband remained on the tractor and I started running into the corn. I have never seen him again.

It was then that my neighbour Stevo Vorkapić, of father Marko, from the village of Vorkapić, Vrginmost commune, was killed. I think it was on 7 August. There were other civilians and soldiers who lost their lives in the column. Later I saw pigs eating their bodies. How many of them there were - I cannot say.

I ran through the corn into a wood. I saw an old Serb who killed himself by activating a bomb when Croat soldiers started approaching him..."

"...When we arrived near Glina I heard grenades and explosions. While passing through Glina I saw planes throwing grenades on the column and heard explosions.

In front of Dvor na Uni and in the town itself I saw bodies by the road. I do not know how these people died.

"...I had a house with auxiliary premises, a stable, haylofts, and plenty of land. In early August 1995 we were forced to leave it all. I was between Dvor and Novi Grad at a crossing point on the Una when members of the 5^th Moslem Corps and the Croat Army blocked our way. The column was attacked and blocked. I was among the last who managed to escape.

I learned that our house in the village was burnt down and we have nowhere to return to..."

"...I lived with my family in the village of Podgorje near Karlovac. We were farmers. We were among the last to leave the village. On 6 August 1995 we set off on a tractor.

On the third day when we approached Žirovac the Croat Army opened fire at us from various weapons. Many were killed. Surrounded by them we fought for our lives. I separated from my son and daughter-in-law. Croat soldiers pushed us into a house and then ordered us to run. Afterwards, we were attacked by the Moslem Army.

The owner of the house into which Croat soldiers pushed us was among the killed. He was slaughtered..."

"...While the column was moving from Žirovac towards Dvor na Uni, it was suddenly blocked by Moslem and Croat armed forces.

On that occasion Djuro Martinović was wounded. He bled and no one knows what happened to him later. I also learned that the entire family of Nikola Novaković from the village of Dunjak near Vojnić lost their lives when a grenade hit the trailer they were in. Nikola Tomić from the village of Šljivljak also died. Near Dvor na Uni Nikola Pjevac from Široka Rijeka near Vojnić, born in 1950, was killed.

"...On 6 August 1995 I was in Dvor na Uni. I saw a column of refugees from Kordun.

The Croat Army opened fire on them. On that occasion many people were killed. Mainly women...

"...I lived in Plaško with an eleven month old baby. On 4 August 1995 alarm was sounded and the church bells were ringing. We started withdrawing towards Slunj.

A column of tractors, passenger vehicles, horse-drawn carts, cultivators and bicycles was formed.

The column was endless. I was on a trailer and my husband was driving the tractor. Near Topusko a tire blew out on the tractor and we moved to a cart drawn by two horses.

Around noon we set off towards Dvor na Uni on foot. I saw a house by the road burning and two or three planes flying over the refugee column. The planes flew very low and I do not know whose planes they were.

Then Croat soldiers appeared. I could clearly see the chess-board insignia on their uniforms. They told us to surrender and to surrender our weapons if any. They separated some refugees from the column and took 15 Serb soldiers to the wood, as well as some women, children and old people.

When they took the captured soldiers and civilians to the wood, I heard from that direction shots from automatic weapons and was under the impression that the bullets flew above us.

Among us were Jovo Grković, Boško Klipa, Milan Pošmuga, Jovo Pošmuga and Milan Mrkonjić. I saw them in the column when we left Topusko, and I do not know what happened to them later. I only know that they are considered missing persons.

In a ditch by the road I saw two dead women. One was plump, with gray and short hair, and the other was old and thin. I do not know how they were killed. I jumped over them because there was no other way..."

"...The situation was the worst when we entered Bosnia near the Dvor bridge. The column was broken in upon and fire was opened from everywhere.

I saw dead people along the road. Some were killed and some died. We ran for our lives and could not pay attention to the killed or dead.

When the shooting started in Dvor, my family got off the tractor and hid in a canal. We brought along only what was at hand in order to save our lives.

My aunt Andjelija Djurić from Vojnić, born in the village of Radonje, was killed at that place. I saw her falling, hit by a burst of fire. We left her on the road running for our lives.

In the refugee column one woman gave birth to twins, but since there was no medical assistance in such conditions, she died after two days together with her twins..."

"...I lived in the village with my three children, born in 1984, 1987 and 1989, and with my 60 year old mother-in-law. We were farmers. My husband was wounded in the spine, after which he was paralysed. At that time he was in hospital.

When Knin fell, I loaded the tractor and set off with my mother- in-law and children towards Dvor na Uni. We were in a column. After 12-15 km, between Crni Potok and Dvor na Uni, the column was blocked by members of Croat infantry. They attacked the column and started slaughtering. I saw them slaughtering a woman and a man from Katinovac, whose names I do not know. People panicked, shouted and cried. It was then when the Croat Air Force started throwing bombs.

I was forced to leave my tractor in Glina and continue on foot with my three children and old mother-in-law. We spent the night in a wood near Žirovac. In the morning we continued towards Dvor na Uni in a bus which transported women and children. Near Dvor na Uni united Croat and Moslem forces blocked us. We were surrounded by them for three days, during which time they bombed us and killed many Serbs.

We continued on foot and reached a village from where we took a train to Banja Luka.

Our entire property remained behind in Crni Potok. Later I learned that the village was burnt down..."

"...The refugee column of various vehicles was near Glina and we were at the rear of it. Then planes started flying over the column. They opened fire and threw bombs. I saw later some cars in the column burning. After the air attack we returned to our vehicles and continued towards Glina.

The rear of the column was blocked by Croat infantry. In that part there were many dead, wounded and captured.

When we arrived in Žirovac, Croat infantry blocked the column again. Many were dead and wounded. We left behind two tractors and brought along only portable things. We walked towards Dvor na Una.

I left at home 5 cows, 4 pigs and around 100 chickens. I heard that 5 days after we had left a Croat family moved in my house in Vrgin Most..."

"...I was born in the village of Žrvnica near Slunj where I had lived all my life until 6 August 1995 when I was forced to withdraw in a column of refugees towards Serbia, with my parents, wife and children. Our tractor was heading towards Topusko. The column was big, it was a mess-up, so that we went towards Žirovac after Topusko. There we were attacked by the Ustashi and many were killed and wounded. My wife went to find some bread. I went after her to find her and when I returned to the place where I had left the tractor with my father, mother and children, there was no tractor or anyone there. My father, mother and sons were caught by the Ustashi near Žirovac.

They took my 70 year old father to the Sisak camp, and my mother and 12 and 14 year old children to a house.

Five or six days later I found my mother and children in Prijedor and my wife in Banja Luka. My father came to Serbia where I live now.

Since my mother was heavily injured I had to push her in a wheelbarrow towards Dvor na Uni, after which we reached Banja Luka in a tractor.

Between Žirovac and Dvor na Uni I could see many dead bodies and wounded people. The wounded who were unassisted for the lack of time and left to the mercy of Croat murderers, made a particularly sad sight.

I left behind in my village two houses - a two-storey house of 8x9 m and an old house of 12x6 m. I also left a stable with 10 cows and 20 pigs. I had 18 hectares of arable land, two tractors and all the implements. I remained without all that and I assess that it is worth approximately 600,000 German marks. It is all gone..."

"...I had 23 acres of land, two houses, two stables, a tractor with all the implements, and according to my rough assessment it was all worth 2.5 million German marks. I left it all on 4 August 1995.

I left on a tractor with two trailers on which we loaded some household stuff and some basic things. When we entered Glina mortar fire was opened and then two planes started shooting at us. We panicked. Mines hit the column. There were dead and wounded.

Tomorrow we were attacked near Žirovac by the units of the 5^th Moslem Corps, where many were killed and wounded. Near Dvor na Uni two Croat planes attacked us again. There I could see again that mines hit several places and that there were several killed and wounded. I could not recognize anyone among the killed or wounded in that chaos and mess of panic-stricken people.

Fifteen kilometres before Dvor na Uni the column was attacked again by members of the 5^th Moslem Corps. My wife and myself took basic things in three bags from the two trailers, put the bags on a bike and went on.

Later I lost my wife in the crowd. She was captured by the Croats and taken to the Sisak camp.

"...I went on a tractor via Slunj-Vrgin Most-Topusko to Glina. When we reached Glina Croat armed forces attacked the refugee column. Many were wounded and killed.

One grenade near me hit a tractor and killed many people. I also saw a dead man and two children.

It was very crowded, there were many people; they screamed, cried and shouted. Three columns were marching side by side.

"...My family and I were in two different columns. My wife, children and mother went first. They brought along some basic things and started their withdrawal on a tractor and a trailer towards Vojnić-Glina-Dvor na Uni.

My mother and wife told me that Moslem soldiers attacked them near Dvor na Uni from the direction of Bihać and Kladuša, while the Croat Army attacked them from the direction of Sisak. They shot at the refugee column - civilians, women, children. There were many dead and wounded.

My wife left the tractor and the trailer behind, as well as all she had brought along. She grabbed the children and started running to a wood. Thus she escaped and reached Bosnia...

The refugee column leaving Krajina was moving through Bosnia- Herzegovina as well. Between Bosanski Petrovac and Ključ the column was also attacked and bombed by the Croat Air Force. Many civilians lost their lives on that occasion.”

That day I was on duty in the police station when we were informed that a refugee column was shelled on the AVNOJ road between Bihać and Jajce, precisely in the village of Janjila, 15 km away from Petrovac towards Ključ.

I went to the spot to conduct an investigation. The road was crowded with refugees who went on foot, in motor vehicles, carts and tractors. They drove cattle so that we had difficulties breaking through.

When we finally did it, we noted that in the direction of Ključ three bombs fell to the left of the road, while the fourth fell in the middle of the road. The bombs hit a "Ford"; when we got there the car was burning. Behind the "Ford" there was a tow- truck with a Korenica registration plate which was also hit, its driver decapitated. The vehicle was burning. Near its rear end I saw two children caught in fire. I cannot tell what sex or age they were; all I know is that they were already dead.

There were more dead there - 11 civilians from the refugee column lost their lives. All of them were identified and I had a list with their names. All of them were from Korenica..."

"...When we reached the Gornja Bravska region, the village of Uzelci, the Croat Air Force planes shelled the Krajina refugee column.

I saw a tow-truck hit by a shell near the place where I happened to be. According to my assessment, there were 50-60 refugees - civilians on the tow-truck and I think that none of them survived. Around that place there were so many wounded and killed. I could see that while I was passing the burning tow- truck.

The hit tow-truck was from the Krajina region. The shelling was conducted by a Croat plane which threw two bombs or missiles on the refugee column.

In addition, a truck was hit and started burning. I do not know if there were people in it..."

"...When on 4 August 1995 Croatian aggression on Krajina started, my family and I went towards Yugoslavia to save our lives. I left behind the land, cattle and my job.

Heading towards Ključ I saw a terrible sight on a hill. Two tow- trucks with canned food were hit and totally destroyed and a dozen adults and children in them killed in the shelling. I saw a dozen massacred and burnt bodies. I could not recognized any of them.

I travelled in the column for eight days and eight nights on my tractor until we reached Yugoslavia.

My uncle V.N. who drove a bus told me that in the Brčko corridor a refugee column was shelled by the Moslems, that one shell hit a motor vehicle and that 4 people in the vehicle were killed...”

"...We set off from Krajina on 4 August 1995. People withdrew the way they could with whatever means they had.

Shortly afterwards a plane approached and I saw it firing three missiles on the refugee column. I saw a tow-truck hit. I heard cries and saw fire. Several other vehicles and tractors with people withdrawing in the column were also hit. I saw dead people, I do not know how many. People panicked running away from the place fearing another attack.

I also witnessed an event near Brčko. Approximately 4-5 km away from Brčko towards Bijeljina I saw a vehicle hit and caught in fire. It blew up and burst into pieces. The road was by the Sava on the other bank of which was Croat territory. We could see their positions. That vehicle was hit from the Croat side. The explosion was so strong that it is sure that all the passengers were hit..."

"...I set off with my wife and mother-in-law on a tractor whose trailer was destroyed in a shelling. From Lapac we went with a big refugee column towards Bosanski Petrovac, where Croat planes shelled the head of the column. I was in the middle of it on my tractor..."

I was in a car patrol when I was told to go near the village of Janjila, 15 km away from Petrovac towards Ključ where Croat planes were shelling the refugee column.

When we reached the spot we could see a chaotic sight. Several freight vehicles and cars were burning, people fled to the surrounding fields fearing a repeated shelling from the air.

We counted 11 dead and several wounded civilians. In the back of a "Merzedes" bodies of two children were on fire. Nearby there was a body of a decapitated man and another dead child.

I state that there was not a single military vehicle in the column, or any weapons, or soldiers. All were civilians..."

“...We were informed by radio link that a refugee column was attacked from the air. We went to the spot 15 km from Petrovac towards Ključ near the Janjila village and saw a terrible mess on the road. The cars in the column and the grass by the road were burning. A number of bodies were scattered by the burning vehicles. I saw two children burnt in the back of a "Merzedes". In front of that car there was a body of a decapitated man. There was a number of injured refugees who bled and cried, and they were transported to the Petrovac hospital.

"...An explosion could be heard from the direction of Janjila, after which an air danger signal was sounded and surprised us all in Petrovac. Soon afterwards we learned in the hospital that the Croat Air Force shelled a refugee column moving from the direction of Petrovac towards Ključ.

We admitted a large number of wounded to the hospital. They were all civilians. I remember 11 dead people brought to the hospital. They were civilians who died in the shelling..."

"...When we reached a wood in Bosnia we were shelled from the air. I do not know who did it, whether the Croat or the Moslem Army.

There were many injured and dead civilians. I do not know any of them by name..."

“...In the morning of 4 August 1995, all the farmers including me sat on tractors with some basic stuff and moved towards Lapac. On the road between Bosanski Petrovac and Ključ an airplane started shelling the column. My son later told me that 7 people had died and several had been wounded in the column on that occasion.

I learned that all the houses in Svračkovo selo had been mined and that the whole village was torn to the ground, not in the "Storm" operation but later..."

"...On the way from Bosanski Petrovac to Banja Luka, right after Bosanski Petrovac, I saw a big tow-truck and two cars by the road on the embankment burning. The vehicles were totally destroyed and caught in fire.

I did not see any victims in the vehicles, but I heard that 10-15 people lost their lives there..."

"...We formed a column and set off to Petrovac. I brought along the most basic things in bags and put them on a motocultivator with a small trailer. I put both my children, 2 and 1 and a half, on the trailer and together with other villagers went towards Petrovac. The next day I saw planes shelling our column.

We travelled for 8 days. I saw dead children by the road. I do not know how they died. I saw funerals by the road. I remember a woman carrying a small dead child. She was walking towards Banja Luka..."

The following examples testify to the experience of persons from the column arrested by the Croat police:

“...I was in my car with my wife and mother-in-law on the Vojnić- Glina-Dvor na Uni road. Namely, Franjo Tudjman said in a statement broadcast on the Croat radio around the clock that we were safe if we moved in a column on the said road.

In Vidoševac on 7 August 1995 I registered with a Croat unit. We were all civilians. They placed us in a restaurant called “1001 noć” in Vidoševac and then separated men from women. They started beating me with their fists and kicking me. They pushed me to the ground, spread my legs, strongly hit me several times on my private parts, after which I lost consciousness. When I recovered they continued beating me threatening to kill me. One of them said to me that they would not kill me immediately since what they had for me was a "slow death".

They continued beating me and finally took me out of the room and pushed me so hard that I fell down about 15 stairs my hands cuffed.

Then they helped me up and took me behind the restaurant where they ordered me to sit on a log and every Croat soldier passed by me, hit me on the head, back or chest. This torture lasted for about three hours.

The same night they took me to the Croat military headquarters in Glina and put me in a cold storage place. After that I faced a Croat general named Petar Stipetić to whom they introduced me as a Chetnik and a Serb general. General Stipetić, who knew me since we both had served in the former JNA, said that my case would be examined by the court.

From there they took me to Petrinja to the former JNA barracks. They pushed us out of the car and one policeman tied a 2 m long metal wire around my neck and pushed me between 30 m long ranks of military police officers. The police officers were 1 m or 1.5 m away from one another; they started hitting me with clubs and hands and kicking me with their boots everywhere except for my head. My hands tied I passed between the ranks and then they made me return. After that I passed out. R. and M. were beaten in the same way.

When I regained consciousness they took me to a gym in Sisak, a camp where around 130 Serbs were imprisoned at that time.

On 11 August I was taken by bus with another 50 persons to the Karlovac prison. There were 4-5 minors of 15-16 years of age among us. The escorting military police officers made us sing Ustashi songs. I did not want to sing which is why I was hit several times with a club on my elbows. Namely, we had to hold our hands behind our heads and to sit bent, all the time looking at the floor of the bus.

In front of the Karlovac prison where the bus stopped the police officers invited people who started gathering around the bus to lynch us, saying that we were the Chetniks and terrorists who had shelled Karlovac.

Since the Karlovac prison was full we were taken to the Remetinac prison in Zagreb. On our way there, a captain, who was a commanding officer of the escort unit, said: "We can tie you, beat you, and, if necessary, kill you". After that a police officer with a gun in one hand and a club in another started kicking us. On that occasion L.D. was beaten so severely that he could not recover for 15 days.

I was in Remetinac in Zagreb until 13 December 1995 when I was tried at the Karlovac Military Court which passed a releasing sentence. I was returned to Remetinac and released the same day.

I left Zagreb without money or any identification papers and with little clothes and went to an acquaintance in Karlovac. There I was under constant police surveillance until 23 January 1996 when I came to Belgrade together with another 7 persons with the assistance of the ICRC..."

"...In a column of civilians I set off towards Glina on 6 August 1995. The next day around 12:30 p.m. the column was attacked by the Croat Army at a place called Brezovo polje. The column was attacked from all sides and cut. The situation was chaotic and everyone panicked. People ran away and hid in the nearby woods and corn fields.

When I left a wood I saw many people in civilian clothes dead in the canal by the road. I also saw many trucks, tractors and cars destroyed. I spent the next night in a wood. In the morning they opened mortar fire on the wood. I hid there until 1:30 p.m., after which I went to a nearby road and surrendered to the Croat police. I was in civilian clothes and unarmed.

They took me to a village near Glina. Members of the Croat Army and police insulted me and called me names and then beat me. I was beaten by whoever wanted to beat me. They used their fists, kicked me with their military boots, hit me with rifle butts, all over my body.

Then they took me to Glina to a school with mainly women, children and old people. They took me to a corridor my hands cuffed and ordered me to turn to the wall with my hands up. Then they beat me with fists, rubber clubs and kicked me. I fainted several times and I do not know how long it took. I was all swollen and covered with blood.

After they separated women, children and persons above 60, about 100 men between 17 and 60 years of age remained in the school. Croat policemen took us out to the corridor every half an hour during the night, where they beat us with all kinds of things. Basically with rubber clubs. That night they shot from automatic weapons above our heads. We did not sleep a wink.

The next day they took us to the sports hall in Sisak. There they searched us and took our valuables. Then they beat us up again.

We were taken to a gym where I saw 1000 imprisoned Serbs, men between 17 and 70 years of age. There were lightly wounded among them.

During the night I was taken to an investigator who slapped me twice. A number of imprisoned Serbs were taken that night in an unknown direction. I do not know what happened to them.

Croat policemen prevented ICRC representatives to register us by hiding some of us in other premises.

From there they took us by bus to Zagreb, to the Zrinjevac prison. However, the prison was full, so that they returned us to Karlovac, which again was full and finally to Zagreb to the Remetinac camp.

In the meantime they took me to Karlovac for trial and sentenced me to 5 years of prison. I did not have a lawyer. After the trial I was returned to Remetinac.

"...I was in Benkovac when Croatia attacked Krajina. On 9 August 1995 Croat soldiers marched into the town. They took me to a basement and on 11 August to the Zadar prison where I stayed for 5 days. On 16 August they transferred me to the Šibenik District Prison, where I was not maltreated, but others were.

In February 1996 they transferred me to the Split prison and it was only in March 1996 that I received the charges. Until that time I had no document on detention. The charges stated that in 1991 I had been a member of a special unit of the Republic of Serbian Krajina Army. This was not correct, because from April 1991 to February 1992 I was in the Benkovac hospital recovering from a thighbone operation. I was supposed to stay even longer there.

Then they took me to Oboljan, "The Island of Youth", where I was kept by 17 October 1996, when I came to Yugoslavia by virtue of "pardon" and with the mediation of the Red Cross..."

"...Croats started burning the neighbouring villages and killing people and my wife and I set off towards Knin. When we arrived there members of the Croat Army closed us in the school "Srpski junaci" where they kept us from 4 August to 15 September 1995.

My wife and I were together all the time. They maltreated us, called us Chetniks and threatened to slaughter us, but they did not beat us.

Us older people were allowed to go out to the yard for a walk. During one of those walks I saw that about ten young Serbs were brought in a van and that Croats beat them with their fists and rifle butts and kicked them.

I was placed in the basement and I could hear cries a number of times from the floor above during the night. Younger Serbs were also placed on that floor..."

"...I was arrested on 6 August 1995 in Benkovac near my house when I went to register with the authorities. The radio broadcast the order that all who were in the town should report in the town centre.

I was taken to Benkovac to the Military Court where they took my personal data. During the inquiry a policeman hit me several times.

From there they transferred everyone - women, children, old people and military age men to Zadar.

On the same day the Croat Military Police took me to Zadar together with J., who had evidently been beaten. He had bruises all over his body. On our way there we were not allowed to talk.

In Zadar I was placed in a camp called "Centre for Men Fit for Military Service" within the Mozire sports centre. We slept on the floor of the handball hall.

Other people were placed in a camp organized in the Zadar high school. There I spent three days during which time they beat me with clubs and hit me with fists.

They ordered me to put my hands up and then beat me in the ribs and armpits.

I was in the camp from 6 to 9 August 1995 when they transferred me to the Zadar hospital located near the "Kolovare" Hotel. I was hospitalized because of a face injury inflicted on me during the hearing in Benkovac. The right part of my face was swollen and my jaw injured. I also had sight problems and felt dizzy.

I shared the cell with six other prisoners. We were not allowed to talk among ourselves.

I was not physically maltreated there. They said to us "Where have you been Serbs? Where is your greater Serbia? Where is your Republic of Krajina?" and cursed our Serb mothers.

During the attack on and upon the occupation of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, Croat military-police formations started "cleaning" the field systematically. They killed civilians and POWs, plundered and burnt their property, took the cattle.

Several dozen witnesses have been interrogated with regard to what was happening in Krajina upon the Croat military occupation.

"...On 4 August 1995 around 5 a.m. the Croat Army started a systematic shelling of Glina from Novo Selo Glinsko where the delimitation zone was and where UNPROFOR was located.

They shelled only civilian facilities in Glina, which were undefended just like the entire town. Most shells hit the hospital and its surroundings.

The shelling of Glina continued on 5 August early in the morning throughout the entire day, assisted by the Croat Air Force frequent overflights and bombing of Glina and the surrounding villages.

They also started bombing the Glina-Dragotina road and Dvor na Uni. The clearly marked Knin hospital was being evacuated on that road together with civilians.

A passenger vehicle with the Red Cross insignia was destroyed in the shelling and four wounded persons, a driver and a nurse lost their lives.

On 6 August a civilian column withdrawing from Glina was bombed by the Croat Air Force. There were victims..."

"...On 5 August 1995 when Croat armed forces launched their offensive on the Republic of Serbian Krajina, my village of Donji Skrad located at the border with Croatia was among the first to be attacked.

Croat forces attacked the village on 5 August 1995 at 5 a.m. They burnt Serb houses. I fled to the wood.

In that attack Ljuban Končalović was killed in his corn field where he had tried to hide, as well as his mother Stana or Stanka, over 90 years of age, his wife Ljilja, around 60 years of age, and Kata Mitrović, around 80 years of age. The three women hid in Ljuban Končalović’s basement. They were slaughtered there and a killed dog was thrown beside their bodies.

It was then that the houses of Pero Ležajić, Vojin Gazibar, Miloš Vučković, Obrad Popović, Mihajlo Popović and my own house were burnt. The entire village was burnt. The houses were burnt to the ground with everything in them.

"...I was captured on 4 August 1995 as a member of the Republic of Serbian Krajina Army. There were six of us captured. They took us to Knin and allowed us to sit on a wall.

Among us was Savo Milojević from the village of Polače near Knin, 50 years of age, who said something to a Croat soldier who immediately took him behind the wall and killed him from an automatic rifle.

Then they took us to the Knin barracks. Along the way they beat us with rifle butts on the head, back and chest. They cursed our Serb and Chetnik mother threatening to kill us.

We were captured by members of the 7^th Varaždin Brigade under the command of a person named Korada.

They locked us in the barracks basement where there was not light and beat us all night.

On that occasion a Croat soldier killed a captured Serb from a gun. That soldier was wounded and yet they made him work. They killed him because he could not.

We were kept in the barracks for 36 days when they took us to the Zadar prison..."

"...When the Croat Army entered Knin in early August 1995, Croat soldiers killed Nikola Draganić whose wife was with me in the UNPROFOR camp and another two persons whose names I do not know.

Mirjana Mirković from Kovačići near Knin told me that when Croat soldiers had entered Knin they took her 22 year old son and son- in-law, whose name I do not know, in an unknown direction, so that she did not know anything about them. When we were exchanged they were not on the list..."

"...My family went to Serbia in a refugee column on the night between 4 and 5 August 1995, while I stayed at home confident that the Croat Army would not reach my village of Žagrović.

The next morning Milka Petko and her son Ilija, whom I knew, came to my place. They ran from Knin and came to me. Around 5 p.m. the Croat Army entered my village. I saw Croat soldiers pushing my neighbours Dimitar Rašula and Djuro Rašula out of their houses. Then I told Ilija Petko and his mother Milka to run to the wood.

I stayed at home to hide some stuff, and then fled to the wood myself. At night I sneaked to my house and having seen that there were no Croat soldiers I stepped in my yard where I saw Ilija Petko’s body. He was slaughtered lying on his back. 50 m away Dimitar and Djuro Rašula and Milka Petko lied. They were all shot from fire arms. I saw Djurdjija Rašula’s house burning and a body of a man with sheep bellows over his head, so that I could not recognize him.

During the following days I was hiding, and all dead bodies were there, too, at the same place, through to August 24, when I reported myself to the UNPROFOR base in Knin, where I stayed until September 17, 1995 ...

...On August 5, 1995, Croatian police forces entered my village of Žargović with an armoured carrier and started shooting at the surrounding houses and tearing them down. The village had been depopulated, and I, too, was preparing to leave. I heard the Croatian policemen talking to an old mad, Dmitar Rašua, called “Mile”. They asked him if there was anybody left in the village, and he replied: "There’s nobody". Then I heard him saying: "Don’t shoot me". Then the shots were heard. The Croatian policemen went on, I left my hiding place and saw Dmitar Rašuo lying dead near the asphalt road. Then I fled Žargović ...

On August 4, about 5 o’clock in the morning, 4-5 grenades hit our village. We were not afraid, because an UNPROFOR base was located in our village. However, Croatian soldier came into our village and mixed with UNPROFOR soldiers...

... On August 4, 1995, early in the morning, when I was in the village of Čista Mala, the Croatian Army rushed in, shooting from infantry weapons. At about 9 o’clock, some 50 meters away from me, Božica Lalić was killed. She was on a tractor, with her husband, trying to pull out of the village. An infantry bullet shot her, but her husband managed to escape. In happened just near their house.

On the same occasion, Darinka L. Popović was also killed in front of her house. I did not see her being shot, but I heard the shooting just near her house, and her husband told me, the same day, that she had been killed.

... When the Croatian Army attacked Komić on August 12, 1995, their troops entered the village from two directions. They set fire to the house of Sava and Petar Lavrnić, with these two people inside. They were a mother and a son. When the offensive was over, I went to their house and saw the remains of their bones. Mika Pavlica, who was blind and moved with difficulty, was also burnt to death. Staka Ćurčić was also killed, decapitated in her own house...

... When the Croatian Army attacked my native village of Komić, I withdraw to the forest and, thus, did not see what was happening. When I returned to the village, I saw that Jela Ugarković’s house had been burnt and I saw her bones inside the house. The house of Sava and Petar Lavrnić was also burned down, with them inside. I saw that Staka Ćurćić’s had been slaughtered near her house, her head cut off and thrown away. She was an 80 years old women ...

... During the Croatian Army’s attack, I was in the village of Poljice, in my house, with my sister who died in the meantime. As far as I remember, in was on August 12 when Croatian soldiers came to the village of Poljice from the direction of the main road, and my sister and me hid.

We saw that Rajko Sunajko from Poljice, aged around 85, whom the Croatian soldier found near his house and who was partially deaf, was surrounded by some twenty Croatian soldiers. I saw them talking to him. Then I heard rifle shooting and later on, when the Croatian soldiers left and when I came back home the following morning, I found Rade Sunajko dead, with a schrapnel wound below his heart ...

I am certain that he was unarmed when the Croatian soldiers came, and he was wearing civilian clothes.

When these Croatian soldiers came into Poljice, they burned down houses, one by one, hay, barns and everything else.

Rade’s wife was with him inside the house, but I do not know what happened to her. We did not see her again.

The Croatian soldiers burnt down the house of 80- years-old Mara Ugarković, who was burnt alive. The house of Sava Lavrnić, aged about 90, and her son Petar, aged about 60, was also burnt down with the two of them inside. Staka Ćurčić was slaughtered...

... All Klapovice villager fled on 5 August. However, my mother, my brother and myself did not leave, because my brother was immobile and my mother was 86 years old. The Croatian radio announced that there will be no harm done to civilians and that we could freely stay at home. Our village had 9 households and we were all farmers and livestock breeders.

The Croatian Army passed thorough Klapovica on August 7, 1995. They did not enter the houses and just set fire to hay stocks. During the following three or four days we were not disturbed. Then the Croatian Army came and started plundering our village. They first looted the workshop of Dušan Lončar, the wealthiest man in the village, and then set it on fire, and then also burnt down Dušan Lončar’s house. Other houses were not attacked that day.

On 12 August, I saw a column of the Croatian Army coming, some 100 troops strong, with two armoured carriers. They turned to the neighbouring village of Poljice. I was on top of a hill above our house at the time. Poljice has some thirty (30) households. Soon afterwards, I saw smoke coming from the first house in Poljice, and then the Croatian Army started to set fire to one house after another, and the shots were also heard.

As far as I know, there had been 8 civilians, mostly elderly people, left in Poljice.

I was hiding in the forest for two days, but then I decided to go and see what happened in Poljice and Komić. I went to POljice firts. At the village entrance, I found burnt households of Boško Mirković and Miloš Mirković. I saw livestock roaming around the house. Houses of Rade Mirković, Ruža Mirković and Jova Mirković were also burnt down. Some livestock was killed. The houses were burnt down to the ground.

Then I found the dead body of Rade Sunajko, who was born in 1910. I saw his body in front of Gojko Mirković’s house. I did not see his wife, but she probably burnt to death in their house set to fire by the Croatian Army.

Later on, we decided to ask for help of UNPROFOR, whose base was in Klapovica. They accepted us and we stayed in their base until September 16, when the column of refugees left Knin. They sent us to join the column. That is how we came to Serbia ...

... Knin was conquered by the Croatian Army on August 5, 1995. I joined the column of the European Community vehicles, which was on the way to the "Južni Logor” (“South Camp”) army barracks, where UNPROFOR was stationed.

While we were on the way to the “Južni Logor” camp, I saw several dead bodies. On the sidewalk in front of the “Standard Ready-Made Clothes” shop, there was a dead body of a man, whose second name, I know, is Sinobag.

Near the “Balkans” restaurant, on the way to the park, I noticed a dead man’s body, in civilian clothes. In the canal by the road from the bridge on the Krka river to the “Južni Logor” camp, I saw two or three dead men in civilian clothes, and some fifty meters away, I saw three dead men in camouflage uniforms.

On the crossroad near the hospital in the direction of the Marići village, I saw Croatian soldiers arresting my neighbour Miša Matković and Žarko Vukmirović called “Kudjo" and taking them nobody-knows-where by a "Toyota" vehicle. Nothing is known about their whereabouts even today.

When I came home on August 15, 1995, I found my house open, with household objects thrown around. I noticed that some things were missing.

Three Croatian Army soldiers came to my house on August 22. They hurled curses at me, insulted me and forced me to do push-ups on the floor. On that occasion, they took away my "Zastava 101" car, a radio cassette recorder, music deck and some other things.

When they left, I went to the police station commander to report the case, but he told me to report to the military command.

When I returned home, the same three persons who had taken my car and other things came back half an hour later. One of them said: "You did go to the police to report on us". They searched my apartment again, and then ordered me to sit down, and hit me repeatedly with a riflebutt on the head. They hit me on the legs as well. I was covered with blood. They put a gun on my temple and shot by my ear.

After that, I did not dare sleep at home. I went to UNPROFOR, and it was with their help that we were taken to Serbia on 16 September.

Left in Knin was my house sized 11 x 7 meters and another bigger house under construction, a car, land ...

...I was on a tractor and on August 7, 1995, we passed through the village of Srb, when the aviation attacked the column and killed several people. I saw for myself how Velimir Stelja, Branko Stelja and their child were killed by a grenade. I did not know the other people who were killed, and there was a confusion, so I can not tell the exact number of people who were killed.

As we moved on, I saw that 9 people starved to death in the column, including 6 children and three adults, because we did not have either bread or water for 5 days, and I watched parents bury their children by the roadside at scorching heat ...

...When the Croatian Army took over Biljane Gornje on August 6, 1995, they took some ten elderly people who were still in the village to the the detention camp in Zadar. They were then transferred to Oton near Knin, and released and returned to the village of Biljane Gornje on September 20, 1995. They found their village houses looted.

In late October 1995, Dušan Dukić, born in 1930, was found hanged in the auxiliary building of his family house. He was hanged on a rope tied to a beam, with his clothes torn on several places. The objects in that room were thrown around.

The case was reported immediately to the local police whose representatives came the following day to write a report, and the autopsy in the Zadar hospital followed. Numerous bodily injuries were found, inflicted by hard and dull objects, as well as cuts on the head and numerous scratches, most probably inflicted by nails.

A few days after Dukić’s burial, his family house was set to fire, together with sone fifteen other Serb-owned near-by houses ...

...In my village of Banatski Grabovac near Petrinja, there were only five of us left on August 4, 1995: I.B., aged 74, J.J., aged 68, Dj.Č, aged 61 and D.G., aged 90.

The Croatian military authorities visited us once a day. I stayed in the village for 22 days, but then some soldiers came again and as they were leaving my courtyard, one soldier raised his rifle and shot at me and hit my left hip. As I was wounded, I spent the night at home, and when a patrol came the following morning, they asked me who inflicted the wound upon me and I told them that it was the Croatian military patrol that came the day before.

They took me to hospital in Sisak, where I stayed for 15 days, after which two policemen came and took me to Sisak, for pretrial confinement. I was imprisoned with S. They beat him and he fell down, and they continued hitting him on his head. One guard kept hitting him until the other guard shouted: "That’s enough!".

Later on, I was taken to Zagreb, to the Renetimec prison, where I was kept for 9 months. They conducted an investigation against me for armed rebellion until May 20, 1996, when they released me.

As I was leaving the prison, they asked me whether I wanted to remain in Croatia or go to Serbia. In my village, the door and windows of my house were taken away, as well as everything from inside the house. I had no place to go back to...

... I stayed in the village of Gojkovac - Glinice. As soon as the Croatian Army came in, they started taking census of the Serbian population. When I was to get my certificate of citizenship and passport, and other documents, I was interrogated thoroughly and requested to give them information on our army and commanders, on the brigades and their names and numbers of soldiers. I was telling them that I did not know any such information, so they refused to issue me the certificate of citizenship, passport and other personal document.

Croats had no mercy for the citizens of Slunj who had not left. I saw Croats looting and burning the villages of Cvijanović Brdo, Gojkovac, Duvnjak, Krstinja and all other villages on the way to Vojnić.

Before putting the houses to fire and destroying them, they plundered them and tood away everything they could find: livestock, cereals and all objects of value.

The Croatian Army would sound an alarm, similar to emergency alarm, which scared us. They said it was the alarm which they got from the United States to gather livestock, because at the sound of that alarm livestock gathered together at the particular place when the alarm was. I saw for myself that the livestock was being gathered and carried away by trucks.

... Before Dvor on the Una river, Muslims and Croats came into the refugee column and intimidated us and spread panic and misinformation. They were saying that people should be stopped from moving forward, that they should be turned back, so that as many as possible would die.

Aircraft were shelling the column. I know that many people were killed. I saw dead people by the roadside...

... Since I was with the civilian defense unit, I was among the last who withdrew from Vojnić. I therefore witnessed the destruction of the town. On the first day, August 4, 1995, the town was neither attacked nor shelled, but two to three days later, its center was shelled, more and more, and the town was systematically turned into ruins. The objective was to destroy the town, so as to prevent the Serb population from returning ...

... When the Croatian Army attacked Krajina on August 5, 1995, I was in Djevrsačko Polje, tending my sheep. Two Croatian Army soldiers arrested me there. One of them told me that he was an ustasha and that he was going to kill me right away. He pointed his rifle at me, but at that moment J.P. came and recognized me, and told that “ustasha” not to kill me but to take me to Djevrska, which he did. When we came to Rakić’s house, I saw 5-6 other civilians and I saw Croatian Army soldiers setting fire to Serb-owned houses in Djevrska. By the roadside, I saw dead bodies of men and women, of different ages, in civilian clothes.

Some time around noon, about ten of us were taken to Šibenik, in a gym, where some thirty other Serbs were detained.

I saw that P.M. and M.M. from the village of P. were beaten up so hard that they could not move.

In the morning, forty of us, men and women of different age, were taken by ship from Šibenik to the detention camp on the Obonjan island. We were placed in tents, 10 persons in each, and slept on soldiers’ beds.

I was not taken to forced labour, but I know that other detained Serbs were taken to build barracks.

I was registered by the International Red Cross, whose representatives visited me and brought humanitarian relief.

I spend a year in this camp, from August 5, 1995, to August 9, 1996. During that period, no court proceedings were conducted against me. With the help of IRC I was released on August 9, 1996, and I came to Belgrade, to my son’s, where I am still staying.

During my stay in the camp, I suffered a nervous breakdown and a hernia. As for my property in Medjari, I left two houses and a 500m2 auxiliary building, two tractors and all implements, some 200 sheep, some goats and a cow ...

... My mother, aged 76, was ill, so I decided to stay with her in August 1995. In my village of Varivode, there were 13 other mostly elderly and weak people.

I saw houses in the neighbouring village of Djevrsko set to fire by the Croatian Army, and some houses in my village were also burnt.

I had to keep hiding, so as not to be seen by the Croatian Army and police who often came to the village. I was hiding in a hut on the hay. Whenever Croatian Army soldiers came to look for something in the village, I saw them from there.

They put white scarfs on courtyard entrance gates as a sign that somebody was in the house, which meant that those house were not to be set to fire.

The Croatian Army and Croats from the neighbouring villages came to my house, too, and took away all my agricultural machinery, one big and one small tractor, a "Zastava 101" car, objects from my house, even my clothing.

My house remained empty. They even took away the entrance door and windows. That was all done by the Croatian Army and Croatian civilians. They set Serb-owned houses to fire.

In August, an ustasha came and started harassing my mother. He was hitting her with a wooden pole, as thick as an arm, asking her to give him Deutch marks, which she did not have. I had to come out and this ustasha hit me with his fist in my left eye and cut it, and then started hitting me with the same wooden pole. He asked me why I had not fled with the others and where my Deutch marks were. He found with me only 150 Dinars, which he took. Then he shot at my herd of sheep and killed 20 sheep, while the other escaped.

On September 28, 1996, around 16.00 hours, I saw some uniformed Croatian soldiers moving around the village, armed with automatic rifles and knives. At 20.00 hours, shots were fired. I heard the shooting in several intervals.

I did not see how all these people were killed, but after the shooting in the evening of September 28, they were not in the village any more.

The Croatian Army took their bodies to Knin, the same night, where they were buried. Immediately afterwards, I went to Duja Dukić’s house, where I found traces of blood, with oil spilled over them, to cover them.

They took me to Šibenik, where I was detained in army barracks. "Slobodna Dalmacija" and "Arena" carried an article about me as a war criminal ...

In addition to direct perpetrators, commanders and accomplices, the responsibility for the crimes committed also lies with the leading political officials and military commanders of the Republic of Croatia because they knew or had the reasons to know that their subordinates were going to commit these crimes and yet failed to take the necessary measures to prevent them, or to have the perpetrators punished.

EVIDENCE: 658/95-1; 668/95-1, 2; 679/95-41; 680/95-4, 17, 18; 715/95-1, 9; 51/96-6, 7; 62/96-1, 5; 80/96-8; 116/96; 126/96-1, 6; 138/96; 141/96; 149/96-3, 4; 166/96-2, 3; 210/96-1, 5; 211/96; 212/96; 221/96; 228/96; 229/96; 246/96; 247/96; 257/96-1, 4, 5, 6; 271/96; 275/96; 276/96-1; 277/96; 279-96; 284/96-4; 300/-1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11; 303/96-1, 8, 9; 328/96-1, 15, 24, 26, 28; 333/96- 9, 12; 335/96; 336/96; 339/96-2; 341/96-29, 36, 39, 75, 76, 117, 132, 136, 139, 146, 147; 346/96; 350/96-2; 382/96-15; 411/96-36; 426/96-1, 2, 75, 76, 117, 132, 136, 139, 146, 147; 346/96; 350/96- 2; 382/96-15; 411/96-36; 426/96-1, 2, 3; 429/96; 439/96; 442/96; 443/96; 451/96; 452/96; 456/96-1; 456/96-3; 458/96; 459/96; 482/96-2; 483/96-2; 485/96; 487/96; 488/96; 504/96; 505/96-3; 515/96; 520/96; 524/96-2; 527/96; 536/96; 581/96; 584/96; 616/96- 2; 668/96-1; 669/96-2; 671/96; 710/96-2.

The documentation-information centre "Veritas" compiled the list of Serbs who disappeared from the territory of Krajina in the period from August 1995 and in 1996, which is supplemented by the data collected by the Committee.

It was undoubtedly established that the majority of persons from this list were victims of war crimes. Some of the witnesses who are quoted in this document testify on how the killings were committed.