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  1. 1 Tuesday, 15th June, 1999

    2 (Open session)

    3 (The witness entered court)

    4 (The accused entered court)

    5 --- Upon commencing at 9.50 a.m.

    6 THE REGISTRAR: Good morning, Your Honours.

    7 Case number IT-95-14/2-T, the Prosecutor versus Dario

    8 Kordic and Mario Cerkez.

    9 JUDGE MAY: Mr. Sayers, your client is not

    10 here today. The position, as we understand it and we

    11 were told last night, is that he has sustained an

    12 injury to his leg playing football and has had to go to

    13 the hospital this morning as a result. The matter was

    14 raised with me yesterday evening, and I gave him

    15 permission to go. It seemed the obvious and sensible

    16 course to follow.

    17 On the other hand, although he's not here

    18 today, it would seem sensible at least to get on with

    19 what we can. What I have in mind is that the rest of

    20 the cross-examination of this witness is completed by

    21 Mr. Kovacic and any re-examination is completed. We'll

    22 then review the position and see if he's back or not

    23 before we begin with the next witness.

    24 There is also one other point: If he's not

    25 back and we have time to spare, there are the



  2. 1 procedural matters to continue with, which at some

    2 stage have got to be dealt with.

    3 MR. STEIN: Thank you, Judge. Let me

    4 respond, if I may. I gather the guards noticed what

    5 our client had told us about; that is, he had been

    6 injured substantially in a soccer game. His leg

    7 apparently is substantially swollen. The guards, on

    8 their own initiative, reported it up the chain to the

    9 registrar, and it was thought appropriate to take

    10 Mr. Kordic to the physician today.

    11 I'm told that he -- the guards think he will

    12 be back by 10.15. That being the case, perhaps much of

    13 what I'm saying is moot. To the extent that he's not

    14 here, we except to the -- it should be "except," not

    15 "accept" -- [Realtime transcript read in

    16 error "accept"] to Your Honour's ruling that the trial

    17 go on in his absence but acknowledge that there will be

    18 minimal harm because this is Mr. Cerkez's examination,

    19 and Mr. Kovacic will continue. Should we have to go

    20 into testimony beyond that, like the next witness, then

    21 I think we need to readdress the lack of Mr. Kordic's

    22 presence.

    23 I should stop there. As to procedural

    24 measures, there are some minor things we can deal

    25 with. We still do not have, relative to the dossiers,



  3. 1 the summary prepared by the Prosecutor of the

    2 investigator, which would be critical to our position

    3 on the dossier, so I think we're not ready to do that.

    4 Mr. Smith should be here for that as well. We'll

    5 prepare for that as early as tomorrow or Thursday,

    6 hopefully, but there are some other minor matters we

    7 certainly could clear up should Mr. Kordic not be

    8 present.

    9 JUDGE MAY: Very well. We'll go on, and when

    10 Mr. Kordic gets back, he can be brought in.

    11 MR. SAYERS: If I may, Judge May, could I

    12 take up two very minor housekeeping matters. There was

    13 an exhibit yesterday, I believe it was D35/1, that

    14 needed an amendment, and I told you I would have that

    15 amendment, and I have it here.

    16 THE INTERPRETER: Could the counsel please

    17 slow down?

    18 MR. SAYERS: And I just have a slight

    19 clarification to the position that I articulated to the

    20 Court yesterday when asked what the Defence's position

    21 was with respect to the telephone call between

    22 Mr. Kaknjo and Mr. Kordic on the night of October the

    23 19th. That's contained at page 3758, lines 18 to 25,

    24 and page 3759, lines 1 to 2, of the transcript.

    25 I just want it to be absolutely clear as to



  4. 1 what the Defence position is, and it's this.

    2 Mr. Kordic told Mr. Kaknjo that political negotiations

    3 to resolve the conflict in Novi Travnik would only be

    4 possible if commander Refik Lendo would cease

    5 hostilities and acknowledge responsibility for

    6 attacking HVO forces in Novi Travnik. Mr. Kaknjo's

    7 position was that he did not have the authority to make

    8 this commitment on the part of the Muslim forces.

    9 I just wanted that to be clear. Thank you

    10 very much, Your Honour.

    11 JUDGE MAY: Yes. We'll go on with the

    12 cross-examination.

    13 Mr. Kajmovic, I'm sorry you've been kept

    14 waiting.

    15 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Thank you, Your

    16 Honour.

    17 WITNESS: MUNIB KAJMOVIC (Resumed)

    18 Cross-examined by Mr. Kovacic:

    19 [Witness answers through interpreter]

    20 Q. Good morning, Mr. Kajmovic. Let us proceed,

    21 please. Yesterday we left off at Mr. Budimir. You

    22 mentioned him as one of the moderate Croats in Vitez?

    23 A. Yes.

    24 Q. My question to you is very brief, if you

    25 would just tell me about two or three additional



  5. 1 persons from the Croatian Community in Vitez who are

    2 frequently mentioned. Mr. Ivica Santic, was he a

    3 legally elected official in the elections in 1990?

    4 A. Yes.

    5 Q. He remained active in the social and

    6 political life throughout '92 and '93?

    7 A. Yes.

    8 Q. Is it true that generally speaking, the SDA

    9 leadership judged Santic to be a constructive person?

    10 A. For the most part, yes.

    11 Q. Is it true that in a way, it was considered

    12 that political forces within Vitez -- in other words,

    13 local political forces -- are endeavouring to maintain,

    14 quote unquote, normal relations, regardless of the

    15 general trends within Bosnia and Herzegovina outside of

    16 Vitez?

    17 A. Yes, there were such attempts. At least, the

    18 Bosniak side always tried to maintain decent relations

    19 within the community.

    20 Q. Could we say that within the Vitez

    21 municipality, the relationships between the two

    22 populations, or between the two parties, if you will,

    23 in this attempt to maintain good relations, that they

    24 were better -- these relations were better than outside

    25 of the municipality?



  6. 1 A. Yes, there were attempts to make it work.

    2 Q. Since you mentioned these attempts, my

    3 further question to you is regarding Mr. Josip Silic.

    4 A. Yes?

    5 Q. Was he another important person in this

    6 community?

    7 A. Yes.

    8 Q. At the time when you talked about joining the

    9 defence forces, is it true that he proposed a

    10 compromise solution to establish HMVO? In other words,

    11 Croat/Muslim Defence Council?

    12 A. Yes, there were several attempts to establish

    13 both a local government and to unify military forces.

    14 Q. So was Silic one of the persons who played a

    15 positive role?

    16 A. Yes, you could say that he was one of the

    17 moderates. But just a moment, can I just give a bit of

    18 clarification, when you talk about moderates and

    19 nonmoderates?

    20 Q. Perhaps not, because we did not go into that

    21 that far. Let me just move on, please.

    22 Mr. Pero Skopljak: Just in general, would

    23 you define him as a radical or a moderate?

    24 A. He was absolutely a radical.

    25 Q. You mean in the beginning of the conflict?



  7. 1 A. Throughout.

    2 Q. You mean including '93?

    3 A. Of course.

    4 Q. Very well. In your diary, in certain places,

    5 you obviously noted down, at certain meetings, certain

    6 notes. This is obviously subject to interpretation,

    7 but let me quote you a couple of excerpts from the

    8 evidentiary material that were discovered to us.

    9 MR. KOVACIC: These are the notes of today's

    10 witness. I'm going to quote it in English, and

    11 yesterday the witness confirmed that these were the

    12 notes which he had turned over to the investigators.

    13 Q. Your first note on Mr. Skopljak is from a

    14 meeting on 17 February --

    15 MR. NICE: I think the witness really ought

    16 to have these notes in front of him, if they're going

    17 to be read not only out to us but also translated from

    18 the original to English. I think they ought to be--

    19 MR. KOVACIC: May I explain, Your Honour?

    20 JUDGE MAY: Yes.

    21 MR. KOVACIC: The suggestion of my dear

    22 colleague, Mr. Nice, is, unfortunately, practically

    23 impossible because the corpus of the original notes --

    24 and I can show it to you -- are in very, very bad

    25 condition; and what is the worst is that the so-called



  8. 1 ERN number is hardly visible on some pages. On a

    2 majority of pages, one cannot see that.

    3 Translation is by those here in numbers

    4 related to the Croatian text, and whenever I was trying

    5 to find, after reading in English, where is that in

    6 Croatian language, I was not successful. Besides, I

    7 will not read more than one sentence or two sentences

    8 in, I think, only two places.

    9 So, however, if the witness has any doubt, we

    10 can later on leave the notes with him and he can

    11 probably give us. I don't know, otherwise we will lose

    12 five hours.

    13 JUDGE MAY: Very well. If you read the

    14 portions out to the witness and see whether he accepts

    15 that that was what was in the notes.

    16 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Okay.

    17 MR. NICE: It gives the RN number. I can

    18 simply make the sheet available immediately and it can

    19 be seen by the witness.

    20 MR. KOVACIC: (interpretation) Great, even

    21 better.

    22 JUDGE MAY: Very well.

    23 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Let's begin.

    24 Q. The first excerpt where you mention Mr. Pero

    25 Skopljak was at page 00328319. This was according to



  9. 1 the notes, so that's my reservation. This was a

    2 meeting on 17 February in Travnik. You mentioned that

    3 this was a joint meeting of three municipalities held

    4 in Travnik. It is the maintaining of peace. Then you

    5 mentioned people who were present. There was Kaknjo,

    6 then Pero, then Marijan Skopljak, and then

    7 "P. Skopljak", and I assume that now that is Pero

    8 Skopljak. Then Kaknjo and so on.

    9 Then on the following page, next to the name

    10 of Pero Skopljak, you say as follows: "The parties and

    11 not the military," in other words, not the military

    12 bodies, "should control." In other words, they should

    13 run policies. Then you say, "We have a single enemy,

    14 the Chetniks." Then you say, "No decision should be

    15 taken without the agreement of both sides. Both ethnic

    16 groups should have say over the economy," and so on.

    17 Do these notes refer to Mr. Skopljak and his

    18 discussion in that meeting?

    19 A. Yes.

    20 Q. Very well. Let me show you another excerpt.

    21 This is page number 00328424. Sorry, 25 is the last

    22 two digits.

    23 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) For everybody

    24 else who is looking at the English text, it is on

    25 page 95 of the English version.



  10. 1 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, you mentioned a meeting of two

    2 ethnic groups held on 28 May 1993. Again obviously

    3 several participants attended, and this is their

    4 discussions, and then at the top of page 96 of the

    5 English version, which is the bottom of the same page

    6 in Croatian, another note of yours, and I assume this

    7 refers again to the discussion of Pero Skopljak. I'm

    8 going to read to you starting from the middle of those

    9 notes, and I assume that the Prosecutor will have found

    10 it.

    11 MR. NICE: I hope I've found it, but as

    12 Mr. Kovacic says, no, the RN numbers don't appear, but

    13 I hope this is the right page. I've counted them

    14 forward.

    15 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation)

    16 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, could you please look to see

    17 whether that is the right page? This should be

    18 somewhere at the bottom of the page, and the first note

    19 is about Santic. This is still the meeting of 28 May

    20 '93. Then you have a note, several phrases on Pero.

    21 A. Just a moment, please. I see "Santic"

    22 towards the bottom, and then up at the top, "Smajo

    23 Djuzo". But up at the top, it's not a very good copy.

    24 Q. Yes. Well, that is exactly my problem which

    25 I encountered when I tried to follow it in Croatian.



  11. 1 A. Oh, I see "Pero" on this page.

    2 Q. Do you see on this page that this is a

    3 meeting of the two ethnic groups on the 28th of May?

    4 A. Up at the top, I see "'93", but I cannot see

    5 the rest. But it is possible.

    6 Q. I would like you to make as much of an effort

    7 as you can. Perhaps you may not need the note.

    8 MR. KOVACIC: That is exactly the problem we

    9 were facing which I told you at the beginning. I was a

    10 couple of hours and was not able to recognise in

    11 Croatian. (Interpretation).

    12 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, would you just leave that aside

    13 for a second, and I hope that you will just agree with

    14 me on the text that I read you.

    15 Somewhere midway through this discussion

    16 regarding Pero, we come to the following sentence, and

    17 this looks to be a quote from his. "Even though it was

    18 said of me that I was the brains behind the radical

    19 strain of the HVO, I personally have problems with

    20 extremists who accuse me of being pro-Muslim. I am not

    21 that way, and I am trying to be democratic. I have no

    22 personal --", and then I cannot read the rest of that

    23 sentence.

    24 I'm skipping two pages now, and again you

    25 quote Pero, and he says as follows: "In my opinion, a



  12. 1 military coup was committed in the entire Bosnia. It

    2 refers to all three ethnic groups, and the civilian

    3 authorities are practically without any influence. We

    4 should proceed to some sort of militarisation and

    5 create a strong police force which will be organised on

    6 the ethnic basis among the populations. The suspicions

    7 between the groups, which some consider necessary, I

    8 believe that common people will be able to detach

    9 itself from," something in that sense.

    10 Am I refreshing your memory?

    11 A. Yes, yes.

    12 Q. Is this true or not, that Pero Skopljak, at

    13 least in this period, did not have his own political

    14 views but rather that he joined these moderates? Do

    15 you think that this is true or not? I think it would

    16 be sufficient if you just say so.

    17 A. If this continues like that, if I'm just

    18 asked to say "Yes" or "No", then I don't know where I'm

    19 going. You're just not allowing me to explain certain

    20 processes.

    21 JUDGE MAY: Explain what it is that you want

    22 to say.

    23 A. First I want to say that I had turned over

    24 one notebook to the Prosecution, and the other

    25 notebooks, which probably the Defence has, are the



  13. 1 notebooks which were left behind in my house and after

    2 the occupation of Vitez, and perhaps there was an

    3 additional notebook which was left behind in the

    4 logistics base in Vitez. After the occupation of town,

    5 the HVO probably took possession of these notes.

    6 So this is not a diary. These were just

    7 notes taken down at particular meetings. It was my

    8 duty to report to my staff after certain meetings and

    9 to attend to give summaries of discussions of

    10 participants in these meetings.

    11 However, I feel compelled to clarify

    12 something regarding Mr. Santic and Pero Skopljak.

    13 These were two really intelligent persons, unlike Ante

    14 Valenta who somehow expressed his views very openly.

    15 Unlike him, Ivica Santic and Pero Skopljak were much

    16 more careful about this. In meetings, they would say

    17 one thing, but in practice, other things were done. I

    18 could give you examples of such behaviour of Pero's.

    19 Let me give you one example where his actions

    20 totally mismatched his words. He was always very

    21 careful in meetings. For instance, once in the crisis

    22 staff, we agreed that the joint police would not wear

    23 any types of markings, any types of insignia, because

    24 we could not agree on them. The meeting went on for

    25 five hours. The next morning, after it had been



  14. 1 concluded that the police would wear no insignia, Pero

    2 Skopljak arrived in a uniform with the HVO insignia.

    3 In other words, his action was totally counter to the

    4 words. So I had to take down what he had said in the

    5 meeting and so it isn't quite true, but in practice you

    6 have a totally different behaviour.

    7 I can also mention to you Pero's statement

    8 when we went to meet with Serbs in Tolovici and there

    9 were some problems with Bosniaks and Serbs.

    10 MR. KOVACIC: I mean the witness is now going

    11 on to another subject, Tolovici, which is another

    12 village. I will have some questions about that.

    13 JUDGE MAY: Very well. Let's continue with

    14 the cross-examination.

    15 JUDGE BENNOUNA: I would like to add

    16 something. (Interpretation) Mr. Kovacic, as you are

    17 going to proceed with the cross-examination of the

    18 witness, you should also allow him to answer, of

    19 course, sometimes by "Yes" or "No" to confirm that

    20 which you put to him. But, as he has just done, you

    21 should also allow him to compare these notes and the

    22 practice. I do not think we can talk only about notes,

    23 such as they are. It is said that these are notes

    24 which were taken immediately after a meeting and so

    25 that one could really know what the meeting was about,



  15. 1 and I think we really need a better and more accurate

    2 idea about the situation.

    3 Thank you.

    4 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Judge Bennouna,

    5 of course I could not agree more, but here we are

    6 dealing with bits and pieces of information which can

    7 be gleaned from the notes of the witness, and as the

    8 Prosecution said at the beginning of the case, this

    9 case is based on a number of indications, or a

    10 circumstantial case as it is usually called in

    11 common-law countries. We therefore have no way out but

    12 to try to get, to glean, to obtain the opinion or to

    13 realise what was the opinion of the witness on the

    14 basis of those odds and ends of notes, of information.

    15 As for the witness's allegations, I believe

    16 we clarified yesterday that the Defence has -- and

    17 these quotations that we address here all come from the

    18 diary or -- yes, rather notes, to be more accurate,

    19 which the Defence was given by the Prosecution, and the

    20 Prosecution obtained them from the witness himself.

    21 We have no other notes, nor did we intend

    22 showing to the witness some other notes, the ones that

    23 he's referring to which may have come into the

    24 possession of the HVO.

    25 To conclude, let me round off this set of



  16. 1 questions. My question was simple.

    2 Q. You gave us an additional explanation, and

    3 will you please tell me only "Yes" or "No" as to

    4 whether my conclusion is correct?

    5 A. I don't know what is your conclusion.

    6 Q. Yes. I was just warning you.

    7 A. Well, give me a conclusion and then I'll tell

    8 you.

    9 Q. So according to you, Pero Skopljak did not

    10 change his political option throughout the conflict?

    11 A. Yes.

    12 Q. Thank you very much. We could have finished

    13 with this straightaway a long time ago before, if you

    14 had said "Yes" or "No".

    15 Now, let us move on to Slimena, and with

    16 reference to the operation of the crisis staff, you

    17 mentioned both in your statement -- at some point you

    18 said that the attack on Slimena was conducted by the

    19 HVO?

    20 A. Yes.

    21 Q. I'll ask a few questions about that.

    22 You were a member of the crisis staff?

    23 A. Yes.

    24 Q. In April and May 1992, the crisis staff sat

    25 three or four times a week; "Yes" or "No"?



  17. 1 A. Yes.

    2 Q. So it was very efficient?

    3 A. Well, in terms of the number of meetings,

    4 yes.

    5 Q. Right. Will you please confirm whether the

    6 following members were members of the crisis staff;

    7 Ivica Santic, Fuad Kakjno?

    8 A. Yes, yes.

    9 Q. Dr. Mujezinovic?

    10 A. Yes.

    11 Q. Hakija Cengic?

    12 A. Yes.

    13 Q. Sefkija Djidic?

    14 A. There was a change. There were some changes

    15 subsequently in the army command. There were some

    16 changes, and I don't think --

    17 Q. Was it during a period of --

    18 A. Perhaps towards the end, because there were

    19 some changes.

    20 Q. Right. Pero Skopljak?

    21 A. Yes.

    22 Q. Marijan Skopljak?

    23 A. I believe he was.

    24 Q. Munib Kajmovic?

    25 A. Yes.



  18. 1 Q. Stipo Krizanac?

    2 A. Yes.

    3 Q. These people, and Croats and Muslims were

    4 about 50/50, weren't they?

    5 A. Yes.

    6 Q. The crisis staff composition was such that

    7 people came in individual capacities, that is, they did

    8 not join the crisis staff as individuals but as persons

    9 representing individual branches of activity?

    10 A. Yes.

    11 Q. So all these people held some positions,

    12 important positions, across the municipality?

    13 A. Yes.

    14 Q. Among other things, the crisis staff decided

    15 to issue a threat and, if need be, attack Slimena or,

    16 rather, the JNA depot in order to get the weapons of

    17 the Territorial Defence which the army had formerly

    18 taken from the municipalities; is that true?

    19 A. Yes. There was talk about how this could be

    20 recovered, seized, or taken or what.

    21 Q. But can we say that the decision was taken

    22 and that these weapons were taken?

    23 A. I do not remember that a final decision was

    24 taken, a definitive decision was taken, but there was a

    25 discussion, that is true.



  19. 1 Q. Right. Do you remember if, during that

    2 discussion, the preparation of the decision or the

    3 decision itself, whether there was even mention of a

    4 man who would conduct the military action to this

    5 effect?

    6 A. It is quite possible that this was discussed,

    7 that this was raised, even though I do not remember.

    8 But it just may be that the name of Filip Filipovic

    9 came up.

    10 Q. Right. Was perhaps Cerkez mentioned

    11 alongside Filip Filipovic as his deputy or assistant?

    12 A. I cannot really remember that we went into

    13 all that detail.

    14 Q. Was perhaps the time set or was it left to

    15 Filipovic, as a military man, to plan it and do it?

    16 A. I think that various dates were mentioned,

    17 but in all likelihood it was decided that Filip

    18 Filipovic should do it at a time seen as best for him,

    19 because it wasn't entirely about Vitez, it was also the

    20 weapons for Travnik and Novi Travnik.

    21 Q. Right. Is it correct that the Territorial

    22 Defence or, rather, the BH army provided Bofors and a

    23 three-barrelled 20-millimetre gun provided for the

    24 purpose? Do you know anything about that?

    25 A. I don't know about it because I really did



  20. 1 not deal with military matters.

    2 Q. Right. But in reports about this military

    3 action, did you learn that the Bofors crew of five

    4 members which participated in that action, that three

    5 of them were Bosniaks of that crew?

    6 A. Yes, I did hear some rumours that it was

    7 possible that some members of the BH army took part in

    8 that, but I have no idea. I received no information

    9 whether they came from Travnik, from Novi Travnik or

    10 from Vitez, so that I really do not know. What I do

    11 know is that Filip Filipovic was in charge of that

    12 action.

    13 Q. I should like to remind you that one of the

    14 crew was Rajdzo Haskic who did come from Vitez.

    15 A. I know that man personally, but I just

    16 don't --

    17 Q. Right. If you don't remember, you don't

    18 remember.

    19 A. I don't know.

    20 Q. You also mentioned a meeting in Travnik which

    21 dealt with the distribution of the seized weapons and

    22 ordnance. Do you remember -- of course, there must

    23 have been plenty of discussions about this and a number

    24 of meetings, as far as I know. Do you remember whether

    25 that evening, at the site -- that is, at Slimena, in



  21. 1 the depots -- that Mr. Sifet Sivro and Ramiz Dugalic

    2 had come to that place and talked to Filipovic?

    3 A. I know nothing about that.

    4 Q. You know nothing about that, but were Sifet

    5 Sivro and Ramiz Dugalic, were they commanders in the BH

    6 army?

    7 A. Sifet Sivro was a lower ranking commander in

    8 the army, and Ramiz Dugalic was with the staff in Vitez

    9 for a while, and he was responsible for security

    10 matters.

    11 Q. Thank you. Now, in those subsequent reports

    12 and various discussions which ensued, did you hear that

    13 several persons died at Slimena -- Muslims, Bosniaks,

    14 by and large -- after Slimena had been taken?

    15 A. I do not know that, but I do know that two

    16 HVO members were killed. One came from Gornji Mosunj

    17 and the other one from Donji Mosunj, and I attended the

    18 funerals of both of them. But they were not killed in

    19 combat; they were killed during the attack on Slimena.

    20 Q. But did you hear something about casualties

    21 after the HVO had taken that compound?

    22 A. I heard that other people had sustained

    23 injuries from mines, from landmines.

    24 Q. But did you hear that an uncontrolled group

    25 of people, a large group of people, also tried to force



  22. 1 their entry there?

    2 A. I spent about three hours in front of that

    3 depot, and I was watching all these things.

    4 Q. Yes, but I'm inquiring about the time. Was

    5 it at that time?

    6 A. Well, that was between 10.00 and 1.00.

    7 Q. You mean that evening when they took the

    8 depot?

    9 A. No, no, it was the next day.

    10 Q. The next day after?

    11 A. Yes, the depot was taken sometime in the

    12 morning on the 4th of May, and as of 10.00, half past

    13 10.00 until about 3.00, we were in front of the depot,

    14 and we watched all those scenes.

    15 Q. Is it then true -- but just "Yes" or "No" --

    16 is it true that a sizable group of people tried to

    17 enter through minefields in the direction of the

    18 woods? I believe there were very many casualties.

    19 A. Yes, because people went through there

    20 uncontrolled, and I don't know how many of them, but

    21 quite a number of them, yes, sustained injuries.

    22 Q. Right. And after that, when the weapons were

    23 taken out, they were all distributed. We can discuss

    24 [unintelligible] and so forth, but let us see,

    25 generally, who took the lion's share?



  23. 1 A. Well, it is difficult to say, really. As I

    2 said, in my view, those were four or five thousand men

    3 from three municipalities, Travnik, Novi Travnik, and

    4 Vitez, and people came both in an organised manner or

    5 disorganised manner, on foot, various vehicles, and so

    6 forth. They broke into that depot. They were taking

    7 out without any control whatsoever, so it is really

    8 difficult to make any estimate and say which side,

    9 whether it was the Bosniak or the Croat side which took

    10 a larger part of that. Of course, we did try to agree

    11 on their controlled distribution, but it was simply

    12 impossible.

    13 Q. Right. So let us try to conclude: Is it a

    14 fact that both sides came by a certain number of

    15 weapons?

    16 A. Yes.

    17 Q. Just one more detail, did anyone get some

    18 burnt weapons because there was a fire in the depot?

    19 A. Yes, there were a number of scorched weapons,

    20 of damaged weapons, and people tried to repair them

    21 afterwards.

    22 Q. But did you hear that such weapons, scorched

    23 weapons, turned up in Ahmici later on? Do you remember

    24 that?

    25 A. I do not really remember any detail, but



  24. 1 there were those scorched weapons which people tried to

    2 repair, to mend, to make them -- to put them back to --

    3 to use them again.

    4 Q. Right. Now I should like to proceed to the

    5 blockade of Ahmici in 1992.

    6 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Your Honours,

    7 may I just briefly comment, the questions which we have

    8 just covered? May I? These are very important. The

    9 crisis staff was mentioned here.

    10 A. Under the decree of the presidency of B and

    11 H, in municipalities, pursuant to the legislation to

    12 the laws of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, no

    13 crisis staff could be set up, and it was the war

    14 presidency which was to be established in case of a

    15 crisis. That is, the war presidency of the municipal

    16 assembly, specifically, in Vitez, on the basis of rules

    17 strictly laid down so that the crisis staff was set up

    18 in contravention of the laws, because the HVO and HDZ

    19 structures would not comply with the law. So that is

    20 one of the facts.

    21 Q. Thank you. Before we proceed to the

    22 roadblock in October 1992, you mentioned one thing, and

    23 so you reminded me. Anto Valenta -- you mentioned him

    24 when we made mention of some important individuals --

    25 was he ever a member of the municipal structures? Was



  25. 1 he the favourite of municipal structures? As far as I

    2 remember, he was for a while the president of the HDZ

    3 in Vitez; that is, he was the president of the

    4 political party, so he wasn't elected to the municipal

    5 government at the elections?

    6 A. No.

    7 Q. But by and large, would you be more precise?

    8 A. As far as I know, he did not hold any,

    9 exactly, post in the municipality.

    10 Q. Anto Valenta, just tell me whether -- "Yes"

    11 or "No" -- Anto Valenta was more engaged, in quotation

    12 marks, in big business, and did not really do anything

    13 at the municipal level; is that the correct impression?

    14 A. No, it is not. He also had his hand in

    15 municipal affairs.

    16 Q. Right. Let us now move on to this

    17 roadblock. You said that the roadblock was set at two

    18 points on that road next to Stara Bila, so was it by

    19 the building company Bosna?

    20 A. Yes.

    21 Q. And the second location was by the village of

    22 Ahmici -- that is, the Catholic cemetery -- at this

    23 S-curve?

    24 A. Yes, correct. It is correct.

    25 Q. So this road, tell me, please, insofar as the



  26. 1 traffic is concerned, I can go from Bihac to Travnik

    2 using that road?

    3 A. No, you can't. You have to take a

    4 roundabout. But if you go from Bihac, then you go to

    5 Mrkonjic, to Jajce --

    6 THE INTERPRETER: The witness's microphone is

    7 switched off. We cannot hear.

    8 JUDGE MAY: I'm going to interrupt at this

    9 stage. Mr. Kovacic, the witness gave no evidence about

    10 the roadblock. The evidence which he gave was in

    11 relation to a telephone call after a meeting at the

    12 headquarters on the night of the 18th/19th of October.

    13 We've already had a great deal of evidence about the

    14 roadblock itself, and it's not going to assist the

    15 Trial Chamber to hear more. What, of course, you are

    16 entitled to deal with is the meeting at which it's said

    17 your client was present at the headquarters of the army

    18 in Vitez.

    19 MR. KOVACIC: Yes, thank you. Okay.

    20 Q. There were several meetings on the 19th,

    21 particularly in the evening of the 19th October, at the

    22 time this roadblock was removed; is that true?

    23 A. No, it was removed the next morning, during

    24 the HVO attack.

    25 Q. No, no, no. I don't mean it was lifted. I'm



  27. 1 talking about when it was set up.

    2 A. It was set up on the 18th in the evening or

    3 19th the morning. I don't really know.

    4 Q. Right. This is not all that relevant, but

    5 during the 19th, there were a number of meetings or

    6 several conversations, several contacts, in an attempt

    7 to find a solution, to remove -- to lift that

    8 roadblock?

    9 A. It is possible that the military held various

    10 meetings, but I don't know about them.

    11 Q. How many meetings did you attend, or how did

    12 you conduct any talks in this regard?

    13 A. On the 19th, in the evening, when Ivica

    14 Santic and Mario Cerkez came, that is the only time,

    15 the only occasion when I was present.

    16 Q. Right. Dr. Mujezinovic mentioned a

    17 conversation on the same subject, on the 19th of

    18 October, in the evening hours. Did you hear anything

    19 about that?

    20 A. Yes. I think that on several occasions,

    21 Sefkija Dzidic went to the health centre, invited by

    22 Franjo Tibolt, and he did conduct some talks with Mario

    23 Cerkez, and he should know the details, because I do

    24 not know any particulars about that.

    25 Q. Right. Mr. Kajmovic, can we then agree that



  28. 1 there were several contacts and several talks in these

    2 attempts to find a peaceful way to remove the

    3 roadblock?

    4 JUDGE MAY: Mr. Kovacic, that has already

    5 been dealt with several times by you. Now, can we move

    6 on to the meeting at which the witness can give

    7 evidence, at which he said he was present?

    8 MR. KOVACIC: Yes, Your Honours.

    9 Q. Will you please tell us another thing -- I'm

    10 moving on. In September and October, '92, Bosniaks and

    11 Croats fought together against Serbs and tried to keep

    12 Jajce?

    13 A. Yes, those were members of the BH army and

    14 HVO in Jajce.

    15 Q. And possibly some reinforcements for the

    16 troops in Jajce, did they go from Central Bosnia, did

    17 they use that particular road?

    18 A. You again raise military matters and military

    19 things, and I really did not particularly know about

    20 that.

    21 Q. All right. Thank you. I'll ask you now a

    22 few questions about -- you said in your earlier

    23 statements, and also in your evidence here before the

    24 Court, that the civil servants -- rather, municipal

    25 clerks -- had to sign a statement of their loyalty to



  29. 1 the HVO; is that true?

    2 A. Yes.

    3 Q. Did the SDA, as a party, discuss it and take

    4 a view, take a stand on that?

    5 A. Yes, we did.

    6 Q. And did it instruct Bosniaks how to do and

    7 what to do?

    8 A. Yes.

    9 Q. Could you tell us, in just a couple of words,

    10 what did you advise Bosniaks?

    11 A. I could do it in several sentences. I cannot

    12 do that in two words.

    13 Q. Well, will you please try to be as brief as

    14 possible.

    15 A. At the time, the HDZ already had an unlawful

    16 government, an enforced government, and there are about

    17 1.200 people employed in the municipal assembly; about

    18 50 per cent of them are Bosniaks. On the basis of the

    19 decision of that government, they conducted a

    20 fictitious job distribution, or rather, nothing changed

    21 in practice, people still kept their jobs, but they had

    22 to sign this new distribution of jobs in order keep

    23 them.

    24 So basically it said the Croat Republic of

    25 Herceg-Bosna, then at the end of this decision, it was



  30. 1 signed by the HVO government. Practically, whoever

    2 signed that decision, he was pledging loyalty to an

    3 unlawful government, and those who would refuse to sign

    4 that statement, of course, could not keep their jobs.

    5 So the executive board of our party discussed

    6 the matter, and we concluded the following: People of

    7 Bosniak origin should sign that statement, because

    8 otherwise, if they were to be dismissed from their

    9 jobs, we simply could not support them and their

    10 families. And those executives who were elected in the

    11 elections, or appointed by the party, were told that

    12 they could not do that, regardless of whether they

    13 would lose their jobs or not, because, of course, it

    14 was easier for us to take care of two or three cases

    15 rather than 50-or-so cases.

    16 Q. Right. Thank you very much. From what you

    17 have just said, Mr. Kajmovic, if I have understood you

    18 well, actually, all workers -- not just Bosniaks and

    19 Croats, but all the workers in the municipal organs of

    20 authority -- were given these new decisions on

    21 employment to sign, on a form which now had a different

    22 heading and a different signature. Was anything

    23 changed regarding labour rights and all rights

    24 emanating from employment?

    25 A. I'm not familiar with those details, but most



  31. 1 probably not, but this was an absolutely illegal

    2 government.

    3 Q. Very well. You've explained that. My

    4 question is that these were symbols involved?

    5 A. Symbols are the form, but the substance

    6 behind it is something else.

    7 Q. Thank you. Nevertheless, the Bosniaks

    8 continued to work in the municipal administration, with

    9 the exception of a few officials, as far as I

    10 understand it?

    11 A. Yes.

    12 Q. So no one threw them out?

    13 A. No.

    14 Q. Thank you. A few words about the

    15 celebrations of the first anniversary of the BH army

    16 that you mentioned, in Stari Vitez, where you met

    17 Cerkez. Let me put the question to you. My first

    18 question, Mr. Kajmovic, is: Are you quite sure that

    19 the meeting was held on the 15th of April -- or rather

    20 the celebration -- on the 15th of April, 1993?

    21 A. Will you repeat the date?

    22 Q. You told me it was the 15th of April. Are

    23 you quite sure it was the 15th of April, 1993, the

    24 anniversary?

    25 A. Yes, it was an anniversary meeting held in



  32. 1 Stari Vitez, in the centre. It could have been on the

    2 14th as well, because we had two days of celebrations,

    3 actually.

    4 Q. You see, let me follow on to that by saying,

    5 according to other data, information, even some other

    6 witnesses, this was on the 14th.

    7 A. Yes, there were two days of celebrations, the

    8 14th and the 15th.

    9 Q. So you said it was either the 14th or the

    10 15th -- it really doesn't matter -- that Cerkez came to

    11 the celebration as well?

    12 A. Yes.

    13 Q. Did he come as a representative of the HVO?

    14 A. Yes, as a representative of the HVO.

    15 Q. So he was on good terms with his colleagues

    16 in the army, like Sefkija Dzidic?

    17 A. They had frequent contacts to deal with

    18 various problems.

    19 Q. The formal part of the celebration that

    20 Cerkez came to attend was held in the fire brigade

    21 centre, wasn't it, on the second floor?

    22 A. Yes.

    23 Q. After that, you had something to eat and to

    24 drink, as is customary in our country? Where was this?

    25 A. This could have been on the ground floor,



  33. 1 because there was a cafe on the ground floor.

    2 Q. On the ground floor level?

    3 A. Yes.

    4 Q. Did you stay there, or did you leave?

    5 A. I was there briefly, maybe for half an hour.

    6 Q. You mentioned that there was some kind of an

    7 interruption because there was an incident at the

    8 petrol station?

    9 A. Yes.

    10 Q. Are you sure that Cerkez went there, to the

    11 place of the incident?

    12 A. I think that some representatives of the army

    13 went there too, and I think that he went.

    14 Q. But you're not quite sure about that?

    15 A. No, I cannot claim that with certainty.

    16 Q. Did you hear whether he came back, or maybe

    17 that he didn't go at all? Did you hear that he stayed

    18 there until quite late, talking with them and having

    19 dinner with them?

    20 A. No, I know nothing about that.

    21 Q. Thank you. A few matters linked to your stay

    22 in Stari Vitez after the outbreak of the conflict on

    23 the 16th of April. You told us that a part of the

    24 Territorial Defence, or rather the army of

    25 Bosnia-Herzegovina in Stari Vitez, was relatively



  34. 1 poorly equipped, and that apparently throughout that

    2 time you were surrounded; that is, until April 1994,

    3 until the Washington Agreements?

    4 A. Yes.

    5 Q. You also told us there were several very

    6 strong attacks on Stari Vitez by the HVO. I would like

    7 to know, how did you manage to endure a year of siege?

    8 And from what we heard until now, you had no resupply

    9 of materiel or ammunition.

    10 A. No.

    11 Q. Did some Bosniak forces manage to enter Stari

    12 Vitez and bring some ammunition and equipment with

    13 them?

    14 A. No, but I can explain how we managed.

    15 Q. Just a moment, please. Does that mean that

    16 you had abundant stocks before the conflict broke out?

    17 A. If you allow me, I will explain it.

    18 Q. But you know the Prosecutor will be asking

    19 you more questions after me, so you can explain then,

    20 but please allow me to continue with my questions.

    21 Maybe we can come back to that a little later.

    22 MR. KOVACIC: I should ask the Chamber for

    23 leave to show this sketch to the witness that I made,

    24 myself, the main points of the encirclement, because I

    25 have a few questions about this, and some other



  35. 1 witnesses will be coming to testify about the same

    2 issues. With the help of the usher, may I distribute

    3 the sketch?

    4 JUDGE MAY: Mr. Kovacic, the only matter I

    5 raise is this: How relevant are the events of the

    6 siege for the matters that we are deciding?

    7 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Mr. President,

    8 the relevance is that we hold that regarding the time

    9 after the outbreak of the conflict -- that is, as of

    10 the 16th of April, '93, onwards -- we claim that this

    11 was a civil war from then on, a war between two peoples

    12 of Bosnia-Herzegovina, because the third people was not

    13 represented in this part of the country. And I should

    14 like to hear from the witness, who was present there,

    15 in the surrounded part of Stari Vitez, to see where

    16 their positions were. He told us that the HVO army was

    17 besieging Stari Vitez and that they were under siege,

    18 and the position from the indictment is that only one

    19 side was armed and was waging war, whereas the other

    20 side was unarmed and was not at war.

    21 JUDGE MAY: And who do you allege started the

    22 civil war?

    23 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) I'm not quite

    24 sure of that, nor is my client, as to who actually

    25 started the war.



  36. 1 Another point, to which we will devote a

    2 considerable amount of time in this trial, Vitez has

    3 some specific characteristics regarding the pre-war

    4 period, and also the wartime period, in another sense.

    5 The conditions there were different than in other

    6 municipalities of the Croatian Community of

    7 Herceg-Bosna, and we would like to show that.

    8 JUDGE MAY: You can ask questions, but would

    9 you have in mind the clock and the amount of time

    10 that's being taken.

    11 MR. KOVACIC: I'll do my best, Your Honour.

    12 THE REGISTRAR: The document is marked D23/2.

    13 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation)

    14 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, we shall try and be as brief as

    15 possible. I made this sketch myself to expedite things

    16 and to avoid unnecessary explanations, so this is a

    17 schematic presentation.

    18 MR. KOVACIC: A little bit more down. Okay.

    19 Usher, could you please give one copy to the witness on

    20 the table so he can see better? No, there's only one.

    21 There is one more.

    22 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, you have a copy in your hands,

    23 so let us go through it very briefly. In the middle is

    24 the main road going from Vitez towards the Catholic

    25 Church, going upwards. On the right-hand side, which



  37. 1 is the north, about half a kilometre away is the Lasva

    2 River. To the left is this other road, with these

    3 prominent facilities: The stadium to the left of Stari

    4 Vitez, then the SPS factory further away from the

    5 church; is that correct?

    6 A. Yes.

    7 Q. Tell me, the place that I have marked with

    8 the number "1," it is about the same level as the Nihad

    9 Omanovic house, near the utilities building? Was that

    10 the front line between the HVO and the army? Was that

    11 the line of separation?

    12 A. Yes, roughly there.

    13 Q. At the opposite end, which I have marked with

    14 "2," that is Nikola Krizanac's house, or to the right

    15 we have the Mlakic houses. Was that the line of

    16 separation?

    17 A. Yes, right next to the rubbish dump.

    18 Q. Having mentioned the rubbish dump, was the BH

    19 army headquarters near there?

    20 A. Yes, for a time, in a building in the area

    21 known as the rubbish dump.

    22 Q. Was the communications centre there?

    23 A. I'm not sure. Possibly.

    24 Q. Let's go on. To the north, on the right-hand

    25 side of this sketch, was the Lasva River, as a



  38. 1 defence. To the left, near the stadium, is an exposed,

    2 low land, in the military sense?

    3 A. Yes.

    4 Q. So the point marked with the number "3," that

    5 was the fire brigade centre that we spoke about a

    6 moment ago?

    7 A. Yes.

    8 Q. That is where this jubilee was observed?

    9 A. Yes.

    10 Q. I have also marked the municipality building

    11 which was controlled by the HVO. Just for the purpose

    12 of orientation, that is at the bottom of the sketch.

    13 JUDGE MAY: Is that number 6?

    14 MR. KOVACIC: The municipality building, on

    15 the bottom of the page. The municipality building we

    16 saw yesterday when the Prosecution gave us the

    17 pictures, set of the pictures. It is out of Stari

    18 Vitez. It is within the part of the city controlled by

    19 the HVO.

    20 JUDGE MAY: Yes, but is it number 6?

    21 MR. KOVACIC: Yes, sir. Yes. I'm sorry.

    22 JUDGE MAY: Thank you.

    23 MR. KOVACIC: I'm sorry.

    24 JUDGE MAY: And while we are dealing with it,

    25 there are some various other matters which are



  39. 1 untranslated on this document. Above that, "Skopljak";

    2 is there a reference to his house?

    3 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Which number,

    4 sir?

    5 JUDGE MAY: Above "6."

    6 MR. KOVACIC: Yes, this building is marked as

    7 Skopljak house -- Skopljak, Ivo, I-V-O. This has

    8 nothing to do with the guys we are mentioning, Pero and

    9 Mario.

    10 JUDGE MAY: And then, above that, we have two

    11 buildings which don't seem to be referred to.

    12 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Nida, N-I-D-A,

    13 Omanovic, O-M-A- --

    14 A. Nihad. Nihad Omanovic.

    15 MR. KOVACIC: "Nihad." Sorry.

    16 JUDGE MAY: What is that?

    17 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Also name of

    18 the house owner.

    19 JUDGE MAY: And above --

    20 MR. KOVACIC: The one above that is a tire

    21 repair shop. V-U-L-K-A-N-I-Z-E-R. Vulkanizer.

    22 JUDGE MAY: And on the other side of the

    23 road --

    24 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) The left side

    25 is a communal services base, Vitkom. That was the name



  40. 1 of the company.

    2 JUDGE MAY: And above that?

    3 MR. KOVACIC: Mosque.

    4 Then above is fire-fighting base. Up on the

    5 top is Catholic Church.

    6 JUDGE MAY: Yes.

    7 MR. KOVACIC:

    8 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, the BH army members that were

    9 in Stari Vitez held those front lines to defend

    10 themselves from potential attack by the HVO?

    11 A. Yes.

    12 Q. And they were deployed in the way that the

    13 army command felt was best?

    14 A. Yes.

    15 Q. Were platoons divided up into sectors?

    16 A. There were certain sectors territorially.

    17 How many soldiers there were in each sector it is

    18 difficult to tell.

    19 Q. That's fine. You told us as much as you

    20 knew. What about the platoon near the stadium? Was it

    21 led by Mr. Salih?

    22 A. I'm not familiar with those details, but I

    23 know that Salih was there somewhere.

    24 Q. What about Tatarevic? I don't know his

    25 name. He was next to the tyre repair shop, wasn't he?



  41. 1 Didn't he lead a platoon there?

    2 A. As far as I know, there was a Tataravic near

    3 the line towards the church up there, a policeman

    4 called Tataravic.

    5 Q. Never mind. That's not all that important.

    6 Did you have any prisoners of war in Stari

    7 Vitez?

    8 A. As far as I can recall, there was one, a man

    9 who was riding his bike, I think, and who came from the

    10 direction of the market and entered this part of Stari

    11 Vitez and was taken into custody. That's as much as I

    12 can remember.

    13 Q. Let me refresh your memory. But first tell

    14 me, do you remember that there was a joint commission

    15 for the release of prisoners?

    16 A. Frequently joint commissions were set up.

    17 Whether this particular one existed, again that comes

    18 within the military domain, but it's possible.

    19 Possibly, did exist.

    20 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Your Honour, I

    21 should like to tender the document. We have the

    22 translations too. Could the usher distribute this

    23 document? It is for everybody.

    24 THE REGISTRAR: The document is marked

    25 D24/2.



  42. 1 MR. KOVACIC: The English translation is

    2 attached on the second page, and, Your Honour, it is a

    3 translation I did myself, because we located this

    4 document only a day ago. Of course, it could be

    5 checked by the registrar, later on by the translation

    6 unit, but I did it correctly. I can assure you of

    7 that.

    8 JUDGE MAY: Very well.

    9 MR. KOVACIC: It could be perhaps

    10 grammatically wrong. I apologise if it is. But not by

    11 the subject.

    12 Q. (Interpretation) Mr. Kajmovic, will you look

    13 at the signatures first so that we see the members of

    14 the commission, Hajdarevic Refik. He's a Muslim, isn't

    15 he?

    16 A. Yes, a Bosniak, yes.

    17 Q. Then there is Borislav Jozic. He's a Croat,

    18 isn't he?

    19 A. Yes.

    20 Q. Then there's Stipo Krizanac, another Croat?

    21 A. Yes.

    22 Q. And then Nihad Omanovic. He's a Bosniak,

    23 isn't he?

    24 A. Yes.

    25 Q. Regarding Nihad Omanovic, he was an



  43. 1 intelligence officer in the command, wasn't he or in

    2 the staff?

    3 A. He was in the staff for the defence of Stari

    4 Vitez.

    5 Q. And he was an intelligence officer, wasn't

    6 he?

    7 A. Something like that. That is the kind of

    8 work he did.

    9 Q. This document is dated the 16th of May.

    10 Would you agree with me that this commission

    11 functioned, as obviously it was composed of two members

    12 representing each side, and we conclude from this that

    13 three persons were released and they signed their

    14 release?

    15 A. Yes, that is what is shown on this document.

    16 Q. You know nothing about those persons, as to

    17 whether they were civilians or soldiers?

    18 A. I don't know. I just know of this one person

    19 who was arrested who was not even armed. He just

    20 happened to drive by on his bicycle, and that is why I

    21 remember it.

    22 Q. Never mind. Let's leave that for the

    23 moment.

    24 Tell us, during the siege of Stari Vitez --

    25 did UNPROFOR and the International Red Cross --



  44. 1 JUDGE ROBINSON: I would just like

    2 clarification on the document you just tendered. The

    3 members of the joint commission, I take it, were

    4 Bosniaks and Croats. Who was on the commission as members

    5 there? Can you identify those?

    6 MR. KOVACIC: The person under item 1 is a

    7 Muslim Bosniak. Under number 2 and 3 are Croats. I

    8 mean the numbers in the signature.

    9 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes, yes.

    10 MR. KOVACIC: 2 and 3 are Croats. Number 4

    11 is Bosniak.

    12 JUDGE ROBINSON: Of the persons who were

    13 released --

    14 MR. KOVACIC: Judging by the names, all of

    15 them are Croats.

    16 Q. (Interpretation) Mr. Kajmovic, judging by the

    17 names of the three released persons, would you say they

    18 were Croats?

    19 A. Yes.

    20 MR. KOVACIC: Is that all, Your Honour?

    21 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes, thank you.

    22 MR. KOVACIC: Thank you.

    23 Q. (Interpretation) Let us go back to UNPROFOR

    24 and the International Red Cross which entered Vitez on

    25 several occasions.



  45. 1 A. Yes.

    2 Q. In the period from the beginning of the

    3 conflict until the end, that is April of 1994, you

    4 said?

    5 A. Yes.

    6 Q. Which means that they must have had the

    7 permission and approval of the HVO to enter as they

    8 surrounded the area?

    9 A. I don't know whether such a procedure

    10 existed, but they did enter.

    11 Q. Did you have any personal experience

    12 regarding the organisation of reciprocal family visits

    13 between Vitez and Stari Vitez?

    14 A. Yes. I think this was after the ceasation of

    15 hostilities.

    16 Q. Wasn't it during the war?

    17 A. I'm not aware of it during the conflict.

    18 Q. In view of your status as a party dignitary,

    19 the party discussed this sometime in the summer of

    20 1993, which means during the siege Ivica Santic offered

    21 the possibility for civilians to leave, to be granted

    22 refugee status, and to go where they wanted. Do you

    23 remember anything about that?

    24 A. There were such proposals.

    25 Q. Was this discussed at a meeting at which



  46. 1 Santic proposed this to Mr. Sefkija Djidic?

    2 A. We had some negotiations towards the end of

    3 June, beginning of July, in the UNPROFOR base in Bila.

    4 Whether this was raised at that meeting or another, but

    5 I know there were such proposals. I personally

    6 received messages to leave Stari Vitez through a

    7 liaison officer of the British Battalion, Mr. Perry.

    8 Q. But you didn't leave?

    9 A. No, I didn't.

    10 Q. Tell me, there were some Croats in Stari

    11 Vitez as well?

    12 A. Yes, a few.

    13 Q. But there were some?

    14 A. Yes, some.

    15 Q. Did any Croats get killed during the

    16 conflict?

    17 A. I cannot recall now, but I do know that some

    18 Croatian houses were razed to the ground by Croatian

    19 shells.

    20 Q. What about any other causes?

    21 A. There may have been verbal incidents.

    22 Q. Does the name Zoran Vidovic mean anything to

    23 you, who was killed in Stari Vitez?

    24 A. I don't know, and I doubt that that was

    25 possible.



  47. 1 Q. What about Dragica Prkacin?

    2 A. If they were killed, then they were probably

    3 killed from HVO fire.

    4 Q. Were certain houses confiscated for defence

    5 needs in Stari Vitez?

    6 A. What do you mean "destroyed"?

    7 Q. No, confiscated, requisitioned.

    8 A. There were some cases of abandoned houses

    9 being used for defence needs, both Bosniak and possibly

    10 some Croat houses as well.

    11 Q. You told us that you were in the civil

    12 defence at the time?

    13 A. Yes.

    14 Q. Were you under the obligation to work?

    15 A. I was on the front line, but I was also

    16 active in the civil defence.

    17 Q. But was there a work obligation for people at

    18 the time?

    19 A. Yes, that could be described as such.

    20 Q. But that was a legal obligation under the

    21 regulations taken over by you?

    22 A. Yes.

    23 Q. For a year, Stari Vitez and Vitez was

    24 separated, was divided. Did the BH army open fire

    25 towards Vitez from Stari Vitez?



  48. 1 A. Only in self-defence.

    2 Q. But you did operate?

    3 A. If I may explain --

    4 Q. I don't think that is necessary. We are

    5 fatiguing the Chamber with this conflict. But there

    6 was an exchange of fire?

    7 A. Each time the HVO attacked, we had to defend

    8 ourselves.

    9 Q. Thank you. Do you remember any light

    10 artillery weapons that you had there?

    11 A. As far as I know, we had two or three

    12 60-millimetre mortars, but they were not in use because

    13 we didn't have any shells, and a hand-held launcher,

    14 which as far as I remember was captured by HVO

    15 soldiers.

    16 Q. Were there any snipers?

    17 A. I am not aware of that.

    18 Q. This was about Stari Vitez. Let me now ask

    19 you a few questions linked to some of the statements

    20 you made, as a point of clarification, more or less.

    21 First of all, in the introduction you told us

    22 that before the war in Bosnia, you were a teacher of

    23 history in school?

    24 A. Yes.

    25 Q. May I take it then that you are familiar with



  49. 1 programmes of study and curricula in Bosnia; at least

    2 you know them better than I do, the textbooks and

    3 things?

    4 A. I was familiar with the curricula for

    5 three-year studies and the four-year secondary school

    6 or grammar schools. Then there was the medical school

    7 which had a different programme of studies, but of

    8 course I am quite familiar with these.

    9 Q. But will you confirm as much as you know?

    10 What you don't know, you will tell us.

    11 There was a question raised here in

    12 connection with another matter. As to the plans of

    13 instruction in the Republic, and I'm talking about the

    14 Socialist Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, we're talking

    15 of the period prior to April '92, were those same plans

    16 and programmes in effect when the Republic of

    17 Bosnia-Herzegovina acquired independence?

    18 A. Yes, because there was no time for any

    19 serious revisions.

    20 Q. So they remained in force for a certain

    21 period of time, didn't they?

    22 A. Yes.

    23 Q. Can we say the same of textbooks?

    24 A. Yes, because there was no time to publish new

    25 ones.



  50. 1 Q. So now we became a sovereign new state. We

    2 are no longer a Socialist/Communist country. We're no

    3 longer a part of ex-Yugoslavia, but we used the

    4 textbooks we had?

    5 A. Yes, coupled with certain instructions

    6 received from educational institutions that certain

    7 subjects should be viewed from a slightly different

    8 angle and so on.

    9 JUDGE MAY: Mr. Kovacic, we are now

    10 approaching the time for a break. Is that a convenient

    11 time?

    12 MR. KOVACIC: Very much so, and I guess after

    13 the break I will need a maximum of 15, 20 minutes, not

    14 more than that, maximum.

    15 JUDGE MAY: Very well. We'll adjourn now for

    16 20 minutes.

    17 --- Recess taken at 11.12 a.m.

    18 --- On resuming at 11.40 a.m.

    19 JUDGE MAY: Yes, Mr. Kovacic.

    20 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Your Honours, a

    21 clarification, please.

    22 My Colleague Mikulicic, by following the

    23 transcript, pointed out that at page 35, line 2, you

    24 asked who had started the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in

    25 other words, what is our theory. My understanding of



  51. 1 it was that it referred to the conflict between Croats

    2 and Muslims, and my answer was that I did not know and

    3 that my client did not know.

    4 But talking at the level of the Vitez

    5 municipality and that portion of Central Bosnia, our

    6 submission is that the Muslim side was the one which

    7 started the conflict which then spread in '92 and '93.

    8 But we do not have any general knowledge, how the

    9 conflict between the HVO and the army, that is, the TO,

    10 had started in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    11 May I continue?

    12 JUDGE MAY: Yes.

    13 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation)

    14 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, first let us just conclude the

    15 part on the education which I asked you about.

    16 When I referred you to your diary earlier

    17 today --

    18 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) May I ask the

    19 usher's assistance, please, to show the witness the

    20 document? For those who are using the English text,

    21 it's on page 20. We were able to identify the original

    22 page in the witness's notes. This was a meeting.

    23 I'm going to read it out loud to you in

    24 English. It may be very difficult for you to follow

    25 it.



  52. 1 This is a meeting of 30 December '92. It

    2 looks like it is either a meeting of the party or some

    3 Bosniak body, and there are certain conclusions there.

    4 There are three that I'm going to read to you.

    5 Under item 2 -- number 1 is not relevant for

    6 this, but in number 2 --

    7 Q. First of all, let me ask you, was this a

    8 meeting of the party or some broader body? Can you

    9 define?

    10 A. I believe that this could be a party body.

    11 Q. I know that this is a terrible copy, but are

    12 you able to identify anything there? Then I'm going to

    13 read it out, the English version.

    14 Under 2, it says that the school is not going

    15 to be working on Saturday, that this day would be used

    16 for a rest of the teachers and pupils?

    17 A. Oh, yes, under 2, stop the practice of having

    18 regular school classes on Saturdays and use this day

    19 for rest of the teachers and for their activities.

    20 Q. And it says that all Bosniak children, that

    21 the language used should be called Bosnian language?

    22 A. Yes.

    23 Q. And then, obviously, there was another point,

    24 that 20 per cent of salaries of Muslims should be --

    25 every employed Muslim -- should be allocated for the



  53. 1 support and assistance of the BH army?

    2 A. Yes.

    3 Q. So this is authentic?

    4 A. Yes.

    5 Q. Very well. Can I conclude, therefore, from

    6 this, and considering what problems you had, that the

    7 curricula was adjusted as you went along, and was this

    8 what the party was trying to do here?

    9 A. I believe that my testimony would lose its

    10 meaning if I were not allowed to explain something. I

    11 need to point out that the Croatian side forced upon us

    12 the Croatian dialect, and then this came as a response

    13 to that. So we asked that the Bosniak children be told

    14 that their language was Bosnian. In other words, what

    15 is done here is you're avoiding mentioning the cause of

    16 what this discussion was about.

    17 Q. Very well. Let me ask you something else.

    18 What was the language, or official language, in Bosnia,

    19 until '94?

    20 A. The official language was Serbo-Croatian or

    21 Croat-Serbian.

    22 Q. Was there a Bosniak language?

    23 A. Not officially.

    24 Q. Was there an ethnic group in the former

    25 Yugoslavia which was called Muslim?



  54. 1 A. Since the'70s.

    2 Q. But this was to denote an ethnic group, not a

    3 religious group?

    4 A. Yes, this was done at first, and then it was

    5 also done to denote both.

    6 Q. But the Muslims, unfortunately, had no

    7 official language at the time?

    8 A. But they were at first not recognised as an

    9 ethnic group, either, unfortunately.

    10 Q. But what was the language that they spoke?

    11 A. The language of Serbo-Croatian or

    12 Croat-Serbian.

    13 JUDGE MAY: Now, Mr. Kovacic, what's the

    14 relevance of all this?

    15 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Two things,

    16 Mr. President. One, that a couple of days ago we had a

    17 document which was tendered into evidence, I think it

    18 regarded Vares, where the local HDZ was prescribing the

    19 official language for schools. What I'm trying to

    20 point out was that everybody was doing it, and it was

    21 logical, because everybody had sort of inherited the

    22 curricula and textbooks from the Socialist Federal

    23 Republic of Yugoslavia, which is their enemy now. So

    24 it is a natural reaction. I don't know if the Serbs

    25 did it, too. Perhaps not, but I don't know.



  55. 1 A. This assertion is not correct.

    2 Q. Excuse me, Mr. Kajmovic --

    3 JUDGE MAY: Mr. Kovacic, let us move on now.

    4 MR. KOVACIC: Okay.

    5 JUDGE MAY: We've seen enough of that.

    6 MR. KOVACIC: Thank you.

    7 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, could you tell me, do you know

    8 of any case where a Bosniak or a Croat, from the

    9 territory of Vitez municipality or surroundings, had

    10 come back from the war in Croatia, where he may have

    11 been at the time, and joined in the war effort -- in

    12 other words, joined military forces, joining any arm,

    13 the HVO or the Bosnian?

    14 A. At this moment, I could not recall any

    15 particular names, but I know that a number of people

    16 had gone to the front line in Croatia.

    17 Q. Could we agree that when the war in Bosnia

    18 started, that there were people who came back home?

    19 A. Very probably they did.

    20 Q. Were there such people on the Bosniak side?

    21 A. Yes, there were some people on the Bosniak

    22 side who had gone to Croatia to try to defend it.

    23 Q. Do you know of cases when, once the war in

    24 Bosnia started, the people started coming back home?

    25 A. I was not following these instances, but I'm



  56. 1 fairly sure that there were some.

    2 Q. Very well.

    3 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) May I ask the

    4 usher to pull the -- I think it's exhibit number

    5 Z2154. It's a map, a statistical chart or map. Can I

    6 also ask for assistance -- it was introduced as D82 --

    7 sorry, 8/2.

    8 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, this was produced by you?

    9 A. Yes.

    10 Q. Let me just review it. This is the area of

    11 the municipality of Vitez?

    12 A. Yes.

    13 Q. The full lines which cut through this area,

    14 and again I -- it's an accurate rendering of the map?

    15 One is to the north, one is to the south. It denotes

    16 the demographic boundary?

    17 A. No. This is the line that denotes the

    18 separation -- that is, the military separation --

    19 between the HVO and the BH army. But it's somehow

    20 remained an administrative boundary to date.

    21 Q. Very well. So to the north, only the -- in

    22 the northern and southern section, there are Muslims,

    23 and in the central area, which sort of coincides with a

    24 valley, that's where the Croats are?

    25 A. Yes.



  57. 1 Q. But I do not see Serbs anywhere here.

    2 A. No.

    3 Q. According to the census information which you

    4 provided, there were some Serbs there, and from what I

    5 know, they were for the most part concentrated in the

    6 north: Hrasnica, Ljubici, Grabak, Trnovlje Tolovici,

    7 Zvizda, in these villages?

    8 A. Yes.

    9 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Can we please

    10 have the witness be given map 8/2. Can you perhaps

    11 locate these villages? They can be seen on this map.

    12 Mr. Usher, could you please place it on the

    13 ELMO? Could you please give the witness a pointer, or

    14 a magic marker, perhaps blue, colour blue?

    15 Q. Witness, would you please show at the map --

    16 could you please mark these Serb villages in blue.

    17 A. Tolovici, Hrasnica, there were some there;

    18 Grbe, Trnovlje. It's very close, further up and to the

    19 right. Here we are. Yes, Trnovlje. Yes, Grabak,

    20 Hrasnica, Tolovici, Ljubic.

    21 Q. Very well. Clearly they are to the north, in

    22 the northern section, and we saw the census figures.

    23 Do you recall, there was quite a bit of a political

    24 debate, at the political level, at the party level,

    25 in '91 and the early '92 when the Muslims from these



  58. 1 villages who were a minority there pushed the Serbs

    2 out?

    3 A. With the Court's permission, I cannot just

    4 stay silent over some things that the Defence is

    5 doing. There were 1.051 -- 1.501 persons were

    6 Serbian. In the village of Tolovici there was a larger

    7 concentration, about 250 Serbs, in addition to about

    8 150 Muslims. Most of the Serbs lived in the town of

    9 Vitez, and then in the area near Kruscica. So your

    10 avoiding certain facts leads to wrong conclusions, and

    11 I would not want to speak anything but the truth here.

    12 Q. Very well. Let me rephrase this. Were there

    13 still Serbs in these villages at the end of '92?

    14 A. They voluntarily moved out of the Vitez

    15 municipality, prompted by the SDS party.

    16 JUDGE BENNOUNA: (Interpretation) Mr. Kovacic,

    17 could the Chamber, could the court know exactly

    18 what are you driving at here with your questions, sir,

    19 because why do we need these statistics? These

    20 statistics, we have accepted them as estimates of the

    21 witness, and where do you want to arrive at? You have

    22 been at this cross-examination for almost two hours,

    23 yet we said yesterday it would last more than one, and

    24 instead of -- but if we are going now into a

    25 demographic analysis, I'm afraid this is going to take



  59. 1 us too far, particularly in comparison with the

    2 testimony of this witness so far. So will you please

    3 try to be more precise and more concise as well,

    4 because this cross-examination really is now taking

    5 more time than it was volunteered properly for the

    6 cross-examination.

    7 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) I am just

    8 trying to point out that it has certain other

    9 implications. The approach of the Muslim side to the

    10 weakest ethnic group in the Vitez municipality, which

    11 practically disappeared from Vitez by the end of '92,

    12 and this was the beginning of ethnic conflict in the

    13 area. So I believe that this is a relevant fact.

    14 A. It is not a relevant fact.

    15 Q. Excuse me, witness.

    16 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) It is relevant,

    17 because the line of separation remained such throughout

    18 the conflict, and it had been established in 1992, so

    19 we clearly see that the Vitez valley which was

    20 controlled by the HVO --

    21 JUDGE BENNOUNA: (Interpretation) Ask your

    22 question, please. Ask a question directly. You do not

    23 really have to go into all this demographic structure.

    24 This is not the subject of the testimony. Ask your

    25 question directly.



  60. 1 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Very well.

    2 Sure.

    3 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, in late 1992, were there Serbs

    4 still in this area which we just described?

    5 A. Yes, until about October 1992, when mass

    6 exodus started.

    7 Q. And following October?

    8 A. In October and November they moved out and

    9 they turned over their weapons to the HVO.

    10 Q. Very well. Could you now tell me, looking at

    11 the map, this line of separation, these two full black

    12 lines, in practical terms, was this the active line of

    13 separation between Croats and Bosniaks in the Lasva

    14 River Valley and the Vitez municipality throughout

    15 1993?

    16 A. This is the final line of separation up to 25

    17 February, 1994.

    18 Q. And was it the same when the conflict

    19 started?

    20 A. From 16 April, 1993, when the conflict broke

    21 out, until 25 February '94, it only experienced minor

    22 changes.

    23 Q. So these were lines established in the

    24 beginning?

    25 A. Yes, these were lines established in the very



  61. 1 beginning and with minor changes remained such until

    2 the end.

    3 Q. If you will agree with me, and you can just

    4 say "Yes" or "No," some portions of that line had

    5 already been established in 1992?

    6 A. No, absolutely, this is absolutely untrue.

    7 This line has nothing do with it. It is only that the

    8 town of Vitez was already occupied on 20 October, 1992,

    9 when the last member of the BH army was driven out of

    10 the town and so you could only say that the town had

    11 been occupied then.

    12 Q. Very well. Looking at your map or chart, you

    13 only show the area of Vitez municipality. What was to

    14 the east and what was to the west of this municipality?

    15 A. You can see here that to the east is the

    16 municipality of Busovaca. To the west is the

    17 municipality of Novi Travnik and partially Travnik and

    18 to the north is the municipality of Zenica and to the

    19 south partially it's Busovaca and the municipality of

    20 Fojnica.

    21 Q. If I understand you correctly, the Muslims

    22 are directly linked to the areas to the north, which is

    23 Zenica, where there was the Muslim municipality, and

    24 then the Croats in Busovaca, was linked to Busovaca?

    25 A. Yes, that was a partial result of the



  62. 1 occupation.

    2 Q. And then to the south it's again Muslim?

    3 A. This is a mountainous region so it is

    4 practically uninhabited.

    5 Q. But it is then leaning on another

    6 municipality which was controlled by the Muslim side?

    7 A. Yes.

    8 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Mr. Kajmovic,

    9 thank you for your effort, notwithstanding all the

    10 problems.

    11 Your Honours, I have concluded my examination

    12 of this witness.

    13 Maybe just one additional question.

    14 Q. You said earlier that about 75 per cent of

    15 the territory of Vitez municipality was controlled by

    16 the BH army and about 25 per cent by the HVO. Is that

    17 reflected in this chart?

    18 A. Yes, yes.

    19 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Thank you very

    20 much.

    21 JUDGE ROBINSON: Mr. Kovacic, there's a

    22 question that you asked at the beginning of your

    23 cross-examination as to the citizenship of the witness

    24 or witnesses. Can you just explain for me the

    25 particular significance of the question?



  63. 1 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Mr. President,

    2 the import of this should be sort of one of the

    3 elements of crime, of a criminal offence, which must

    4 exist, and it's related to internees and has to do with

    5 the vocabulary in protocol 2.

    6 The term used there, if I'm correct, the term

    7 used there is "protected persons", and it seems to me,

    8 that is, in our view, and we already referred to that

    9 at a pre-trial brief, that it is untenable, it is

    10 unacceptable -- no, let me rephrase it. If it is an

    11 international conflict, then they must be citizens of

    12 two different countries, which does not hold true of an

    13 internal conflict. So that is our thesis.

    14 We are preparing, well, a kind of expert

    15 testimony. Of course, it is a legal matter, but we

    16 should like to call an expert on citizenship.

    17 In the former Yugoslav state, the citizen

    18 doctrine was quite advanced and specific, in my humble

    19 opinion, as of 1945, in all the legislation as of 1945,

    20 and especially in the constitution of 1954.

    21 MR. NICE: Just a few matters, please,

    22 Mr. Kajmovic.

    23 (Trial Chamber confers)

    24 MR. NICE: A few matters, Mr. Kajmovic.

    25 Re-examined by Mr. Nice:



  64. 1 Q. First of all, the Muslim parade and its

    2 similarity or dissimilarity from the Croat parade of

    3 which you've spoken, to what extent was the Muslim

    4 parade similar or dissimilar?

    5 A. Yes. On the Bosniak side, there was also an

    6 oath-taking procedure, that is, a common procedure in

    7 all democratic countries, so that members of the BH

    8 army took the oath of allegiance, saying that they

    9 would be defending the sovereignty and integrity of the

    10 territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina, in contrast with the

    11 Croat side, who also took an oath of allegiance in

    12 which they had to pronounce an oath which said that

    13 they would be defending only Herceg-Bosna. So these

    14 are two completely different things.

    15 Secondly, the HVO kept this review, this

    16 parade -- there was about five or six hundred

    17 combatants, and I forget where they took this oath, and

    18 which was a show of force, practically, to intimidate

    19 the Bosniak population. So whereas the army worked in

    20 neighbourhood communities, they did it at the town

    21 stadium, which was open to everyone. Everybody could

    22 come, and through the wording of this oath of

    23 allegiance at the same time meant a threat to the

    24 population of Bosniak origin, so that is the

    25 difference.



  65. 1 Q. The answer, as it reads on the transcript, is

    2 arguably a little ambiguous, so I'll just clarify it.

    3 This probably can be dealt with very shortly.

    4 Are you saying that the oath by those at the

    5 Muslim or Bosniak ceremony constituted in any way a

    6 threat to others or not?

    7 A. No.

    8 Q. The next topic, the telephone conversation

    9 involving Fuad Kakjno. Just a couple of questions on

    10 the versions that have been outlined by the Defence.

    11 Do you accept that Kaknjo was said to have no

    12 relevant authority by Kordic in this phone call?

    13 MR. SAYERS: Just an objection to the form of

    14 that question. It's very ambiguous, Your Honour. I

    15 believe that we had represented to the Court that it's

    16 the Defence's position that Mr. Kaknjo told Mr. Kordic

    17 that he didn't have any authority to take positions or

    18 to make decisions on behalf of the Muslim military

    19 forces.

    20 MR. NICE: I misread my note. Quite right.

    21 Q. As to that proposition, do you accept that?

    22 A. The substance, the gist of it, is not whether

    23 somebody had the authority or not. The important thing

    24 is the Bosniak side did its utmost to prevent conflicts

    25 or at least to bring them to an end, the ones that



  66. 1 started. So if any negotiations took place on the

    2 cease-fire, Kaknjo could negotiate and sign such

    3 agreements, such understandings, and his signature

    4 would not be contested by anyone on the Bosniak side.

    5 JUDGE BENNOUNA: (Interpretation) Mr. Nice, I

    6 think you have to word properly your question. We are

    7 not really interested in the opinion of the witness but

    8 what he heard being said by Kordic himself, by the

    9 accused. So we are not really seeking the view of the

    10 witness, and will you please try to direct the witness

    11 in this direction. "What did Kordic say to Mr. Kaknjo

    12 with regard to Mr. Kaknjo's authority?"

    13 MR. NICE:

    14 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, you've heard the Judge's

    15 observation, and the question that you were answering

    16 in the form of the observation by Mr. Sayers was that

    17 Mr. Kaknjo told Mr. Kordic he didn't have any authority

    18 to take positions or make decisions on behalf of the

    19 Muslim military forces. Do you accept that

    20 proposition, that is to say, did Mr. Kaknjo say that,

    21 or not?

    22 A. Dario Kordic conditioned all the negotiations

    23 on this [indiscernible] and the army. He was the one

    24 who was putting the terms by this fact.

    25 Q. One other question on this topic.



  67. 1 You were asked to consider Mr. Fuad Kakjno's

    2 evidence on an earlier occasion.

    3 MR. NICE: I have transcripts if the Court

    4 needs to see it.

    5 Q. One question that you were asked was this:

    6 "The only thing is," you were asked, "he didn't add

    7 the curse that was heard as Kordic was approaching the

    8 telephone?" You were not asked to deal with the

    9 earlier statement that Fuad Kakjno had made to

    10 investigators, and for completeness, that should be

    11 before the Court.

    12 MR. NICE: I simply provide the relevant two

    13 pages of that statement.

    14 MR. SAYERS: I object to that, Your Honour.

    15 That's beyond the scope of our cross-examination. We

    16 didn't ask any questions at all about Mr. Fuad Kakjno's

    17 statement, just about his sworn testimony in the

    18 Aleksovski case.

    19 JUDGE MAY: He was asked about the

    20 testimony. It must be relevant to put in his statement

    21 too. Yes.

    22 MR. NICE: Can I just hand in -- it's got the

    23 cover sheet, for identification purposes, and just two

    24 of the pages of the statement itself. Can I propose

    25 that it becomes 2154,3?



  68. 1 If the English version could be placed on the

    2 ELMO first at the next sheet, please, Mr. Usher. It

    3 will be page 5 and it picks it up, and I can deal with

    4 it quite quickly, although the Court can read it, I

    5 have no doubt, more swiftly to itself than I can read

    6 it out. But it's the paragraph that starts at the foot

    7 of page 5, "On the 19th of October," and it then goes

    8 over the page, and I needn't set out this person's

    9 account in detail for these purposes.

    10 At the top of page 6, "Santic told me he had

    11 already talked with Kordic and Kordic wouldn't listen

    12 to him. Santic told me if I wanted to talk to Kordic,

    13 I could, and he gave me a telephone number for Kordic."

    14 I remember I've omitted to give copies to the

    15 interpreters. I apologise. They've got it in front of

    16 them.

    17 "There was a suggestion that myself and

    18 Santic go to Novi Travnik and try to settle it. Santic

    19 said that, 'If Kordic agrees to listen to you, I will

    20 go to Travnik with you and try to reach an agreement.'

    21 When Santic gave me the telephone number, I could see

    22 that it was in Novi Travnik. I called Dario Kordic.

    23 Someone answered the phone, and I asked him if Dario

    24 was there. I didn't introduce myself when I told the

    25 person I wanted to talk to Kordic. The person said



  69. 1 that Dario was there but busy at the moment. I heard

    2 sounds of Kordic talking to someone giving orders.

    3 Kordic sounded nervous and began swearing. Kordic then

    4 said, 'What is going on with Vitez? We have to do it

    5 with Vitez.' Kordic then picked up the phone and asked

    6 who it was. I identified myself and told him that I

    7 had talked to Santic."

    8 Then it goes on and deals with the phone

    9 call.

    10 JUDGE MAY: Mr. Nice, is this witness going

    11 to give evidence in this trial?

    12 MR. NICE: If he is available to us and

    13 willing to come. That may not be the position, and I'm

    14 not sure at the moment. But it seemed, in light of the

    15 possibility that he may not, that it was appropriate to

    16 complete the prior accounts he gave.

    17 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, I've read out the passage from

    18 a statement of Mr. Kaknjo. I don't invite you to

    19 comment unless you say that anything he says in it is

    20 untrue to your recollection. Is there any part of that

    21 that you say is untrue or with which you disagree?

    22 That's the limit of my question.

    23 A. No, there isn't.

    24 Q. The next topic, and there are only about

    25 three more in all and the others are short, the next



  70. 1 topic concerns questions that were asked of you about

    2 the blockade at Ahmici, and again the Court will

    3 recall, probably, the cross-examination yesterday. I

    4 have hard copies available, if that would be helpful,

    5 but the question with which I was concerned was

    6 Mr. Sayers' cross-examination where he was pressing on

    7 the witness that the witness was acknowledging that the

    8 blockade was introduced at a point in the road of

    9 particular military or strategic significance, and he

    10 was quoting his testimony to him, and at one stage he

    11 said this:

    12 He said, "Once again, on page 5733, your

    13 testimony in Blaskic, quote: 'So this was one of the

    14 motives, to take control of this road communications,

    15 and this would be the purely military aspect of it.'

    16 Did you state that in the Blaskic case, one and a

    17 quarter years ago," to which the witness said,"No, no,

    18 please, don't do that. I do not agree, absolutely

    19 not. The order was to put up the barricade, to halt,

    20 to prevent the passage of units to Novi Travnik."

    21 In light of that difference between the

    22 witness and Mr. Sayers, who went on to say that was the

    23 evidence in the case, can I just provide the evidence

    24 and put it in its context again? This can become --

    25 MR. SAYERS: Do you have the page number,



  71. 1 Your Honour? I can't find that in the --

    2 MR. NICE: 5372 and 5373 in the transcript in

    3 Blaskic, and may it become 2154,2?

    4 This can similarly be placed on the ELMO to

    5 begin with on -- because it's double-side copied, to

    6 begin with on the front side, first sheet.

    7 Q. Mr. Kajmovic, did the questions about the

    8 blockade arise at the end of your examination in

    9 Blaskic and in answer to questions from Judge Riad?

    10 A. I believe it is somewhere towards the end.

    11 MR. NICE: Thank you. Mr. Kajmovic, just

    12 wait there, please, and listen to what's going to come,

    13 and there may be a short question at the end of it.

    14 The Court will see, on page 5372, that Judge

    15 Riad was asking questions in relation to the witness's

    16 research project of which he had spoken and whether he

    17 considered genocide was used as a means of ethnic

    18 cleansing in Vitez. In his answer, the witness says --

    19 JUDGE MAY: There is an objection. Yes,

    20 Mr. Sayers.

    21 MR. SAYERS: Not an objection, Your Honour.

    22 I was extremely confused when I heard the page

    23 numbers. It's actually page 5732 and 5733, not 5372.

    24 MR. NICE: My mistake. I'm sorry.

    25 JUDGE MAY: A slip of the tongue, no doubt.



  72. 1 MR. NICE: [Indiscernible] cross-examined for

    2 it yesterday.

    3 It goes on, "In my thesis, I touch on the

    4 genocide in Ahmici. I did research this issue and I

    5 identified the exact number of victims there," over the

    6 page, "and I tried to ascertain the reasons why this

    7 was done and why in Ahmici. And apart from general

    8 motives, there was some local or practical reasons as

    9 well. One of the practical reasons for this genocide

    10 was that the local commune, where there were 508

    11 Bosniaks, was on the road Vitez-Busovaca. It was a

    12 strategically-important point, and only at this point

    13 was there any danger that it could be cut off and that

    14 the HVO may not be able to use it for military

    15 purposes. So this was one of the motives, to take

    16 control of this road communications," and I'm afraid my

    17 copy now misses the next two words, but I can find it

    18 rapidly. "This would be the purely military aspect of

    19 it."

    20 You then went on to say, Mr. Kajmovic, "But

    21 there is another aspect why genocide was committed

    22 there. One was the motivation which was revenge, and

    23 on the 18th of October, 1992, when the HVO attacked

    24 Novi Travnik on the orders of the Commander

    25 Hadzihasanovic of the 3rd Corps, a roadblock or



  73. 1 barricade was put up in Ahmici. It was attacked by the

    2 HVO and it was removed within about one hour of

    3 gunfire."

    4 Then you go on to deal with one young man

    5 being called, and you said, "So this barricade briefly

    6 slowed down the HVO troops' movements from Busovaca,"

    7 and so on.

    8 Q. So when the passage of evidence, and this is

    9 the only question that I want you to deal with, was put

    10 to you, which as the Court will see, the passage that

    11 begins with the fresh paragraph on 5733, when the

    12 passage of evidence was put to you about the motives

    13 being to take control of road communications, were you

    14 referring, at the time you gave that evidence, to what

    15 had happened earlier or to what had happened in April

    16 of 1993?

    17 A. If I may answer some three questions here --

    18 Q. I only want you to answer the one question.

    19 Namely, when you gave that passage that Mr. Sayers put

    20 to you in detail, were you -- it may be self-evident

    21 from the transcript, but were you speaking of what had

    22 happened in October of 1992 or what was happening in

    23 April of '93?

    24 A. I was referring to what had happened in

    25 October 1992. Here one needs to distinguish between



  74. 1 the terms "strategically" and "literally relevant".

    2 This is a term in the open conflict, that is, as of the

    3 16th of April, '93, when the fighting began until the

    4 end of it. Then a point, an elevation or whatever, may

    5 be important, more or less, strategically important for

    6 the military. However, things that happened in October

    7 '92, the army wanted to stop -- to prevent the

    8 movement of HVO units because of the strategy they were

    9 using. Since they were better militarily organised,

    10 better equipped also, they were using the tactic of

    11 attacking one municipality after the other, and after

    12 taking one, then going after another one.

    13 Q. Let me stop you, because it's helpful to have

    14 the Chamber have your answer precisely to the question

    15 that's asked, and I think you gave that answer.

    16 The remaining topics are very short, I

    17 think. First, reference to a grenade that may have or

    18 did kill some children in the course of the conflict.

    19 Just "Yes" or "No", if this is possible. Did that come

    20 from Stari Vitez or not, to your knowledge?

    21 A. No. Nor was that possible even in theory.

    22 Q. Because?

    23 MR. KOVACIC: (Interpretation) Your Honour, I

    24 should like to object. Two or three times the witness,

    25 both during the examination-in-chief and cross, he said



  75. 1 that he was not a military expert, that he knew nothing

    2 about military matters. Now, just a moment ago, he

    3 gave us some information about military strategy, and

    4 now he has all of a sudden become a ballistics expert,

    5 an expert on shells.

    6 JUDGE MAY: No, he is not. The witness is

    7 entitled to say what he knows happened. Yes.

    8 MR. NICE:

    9 Q. Was it possible? You say, "Not in theory."

    10 Just explain why.

    11 A. From the place where a shell killed several

    12 children of Croat ethnicity to the house where I lived,

    13 until the HVO attack on the 16th of April, there are no

    14 more than 50 metres from there to the line in Stari

    15 Vitez, that is, the front line which was to the south

    16 and southeast. From that place to our line, there is

    17 about a distance of some 200 metres or so. There are

    18 some private facilities there and so on and so forth.

    19 And I really, as a layman, tried to reason, and I

    20 wonder how can one direct a shell at those 200 metres

    21 of such a calibre when we know that in Vitez, there was

    22 simply not a weapon of that calibre, of that size? I

    23 mean I know what the ground looks like physically.

    24 These distances are very short there, and --

    25 Q. That's the answer.



  76. 1 You were asked about the restocking by Stari

    2 Vitez of food and so on in the course of the conflict.

    3 You said you could add to it. I want you to do so in

    4 just two or three sentences, please. Was it necessary

    5 to restock food and other items in the course of the

    6 conflict or were there adequate stores?

    7 A. I think that the Defence referred to stocks

    8 of ammunition and not food, but I can reply as regards

    9 both items.

    10 Q. Yes, please.

    11 A. Can I?

    12 Q. Yes, please.

    13 A. As far as food was concerned, through the

    14 Merhamet charitable society some food had been

    15 obtained, some 20 tons of flour, which was stored in

    16 Stari Vitez. Thanks to that flour, about 1.200

    17 inhabitants managed to survive until the so-called

    18 White Road Convoy, as it was called, when we received a

    19 certain quantity. Then the population had some stocks

    20 in reserve in their own households so that the

    21 population did relatively well as regards food because

    22 there was sufficient quantities of flour.

    23 As for ammunition, as I was on the front line

    24 and had a rifle, on average we had 50 to 60 bullets.

    25 We didn't have more than that. In a period of less



  77. 1 than one year on the front line, where I kept regular

    2 duty, I fired 10 to 15 bullets in all. So considering

    3 the amount of ammunition used, I could have remained

    4 there for another three years because the orders were

    5 that we were not allowed to fire a shot except in

    6 extreme necessity, and that meant if an HVO soldier

    7 reached our very trenches and dugouts, in which case we

    8 had no other choice. So that is the explanation, and I

    9 may add that some 40 or 45 out of the 60 I had were

    10 left at the end.

    11 Q. There was something you wanted to add briefly

    12 in the cross-examination by Mr. Kovacic about the use

    13 of the term "moderate" as opposed to "radical". If, on

    14 reflection, there's nothing you wish to add, don't feel

    15 you have to provide an answer. If there's something

    16 you want to say, try and put it succinctly so that it

    17 can help the Chamber.

    18 A. Yes. There was some debate over Pero

    19 Skopljak and the town mayor, Ivica Santic.

    20 Some of the Croatian officials, political

    21 officials, at certain meetings, especially when

    22 differences of view existed between us, they would tend

    23 to make certain statements that were not fully in

    24 control. Some of them, like Ivica Santic and Pero

    25 Skopljak, were very careful in choosing their words,



  78. 1 and their statements and actual activities in practice

    2 on the ground were quite different.

    3 My intention was to mention this because the

    4 Defence, quoting my notes which I was obliged to convey

    5 to members of the executive board of my party, that is,

    6 the minutes of those meetings, so I took note of those

    7 statements, but I can also mention different statements

    8 made which give a completely different characterisation

    9 of Pero Skopljak as a radical.

    10 I could mention a meeting held in the village

    11 of Tolovici, to which we were invite by Serb

    12 representatives, for us to hold a joint meeting in an

    13 elementary school there. Myself and Pero Skopljak went

    14 to that meeting, and we tried to calm down the

    15 situation, to avoid incidents. Upon returning in his

    16 own car, passing through Krizancevo Selo, in

    17 conversation, I said, "You really did deliver a nice

    18 speech to the Serbs, which rather surprised me."

    19 His answer, and I quote him verbatim, if I

    20 may quote his words, which contain a swear word, he

    21 said that -- he cursed his mother: "They should be told

    22 one thing at meetings, while in fact every effort

    23 should be made to kill them."

    24 Of course I didn't take note of such things,

    25 because these were notes about meetings. But the



  79. 1 impressions of all people there were that Pero Skopljak

    2 was an extremist.

    3 Q. On the topic of your notebooks, you've spoken

    4 of other notebooks that may have landed up in other

    5 hands. We are not remotely interested in rumour or

    6 speculation.

    7 A. Yes.

    8 Q. Only if you have any evidence to point to

    9 where your other notebooks may now be, will you tell us

    10 about it? If you have no such evidence, we will move

    11 on to the next and last topic.

    12 A. My house is in the part of Vitez which is

    13 under the administrative control of the HVO, and after

    14 the 16th of April, my house was looted. They searched

    15 it and raided everything, including the notebooks in

    16 that house, so that probably those notebooks ended up

    17 in the hands of the HVO, be it the political, military,

    18 or police bodies of the HVO. That is the most probable

    19 conclusion.

    20 Q. Thank you. Finally, it's been suggested that

    21 in the area of Vitez, the conflict was started by the

    22 Muslims -- again, this is not an opportunity for a long

    23 answer, and you don't have to give any answer at all

    24 unless you feel you can do so by reference to events --

    25 but are you able to point to any particular



  80. 1 circumstance or events that would assist the Chamber

    2 with who it was who started the conflict in Vitez?

    3 So have the question in mind, understand it,

    4 take a second or so to think about it, and then answer

    5 if you think you can point to particular circumstances

    6 or events.

    7 A. Yes. On the 15th of April, at about 4.00 in

    8 the afternoon, 16.00 hours, we had a meeting in Stari

    9 Vitez at which representatives of the Bosniaks were

    10 present, representatives of the army, the police, and

    11 the SDA party. At that meeting we analysed the

    12 situation in Vitez municipality at the time, and some

    13 people, specifically Kaknjo Fuad, Zeko Fuad, asked

    14 representatives of the army and of the police to tell

    15 them clearly what the security situation was. In fact,

    16 he asked the commander of -- Dzidic Sefkija whether he

    17 could sleep at peace. He asked Saban Mahmutovic, the

    18 police commander -- that is, the commander of the

    19 Bosniak section of the police -- whether they could

    20 sleep peacefully.

    21 Their assessments were that the situation was

    22 tense, but no different from what it had been the

    23 previous days. So we can now say with absolute

    24 certainty that their assessment was completely wrong,

    25 and had that assessment been better, probably the



  81. 1 Bosniak side would have done something to defend

    2 themselves better.

    3 As this assessment was wrong, the next day,

    4 in the morning, at 5.30 a.m., the attack was launched,

    5 and even guards or guard duty that was held both by the

    6 army and the HVO, on the side of the Bosniaks, after

    7 midnight, the guards went back home to sleep; and the

    8 guards in Stari Vitez, in which the Bosniaks have a

    9 majority, the HVO passed through those guard posts and

    10 set light to the first row of houses near the stadium.

    11 Also, from the direction of the church, they reached

    12 the crossroads, where the road branches off to the

    13 so-called garbage dump, where a number of Bosniak

    14 houses were burnt and a number of Bosniaks killed, so

    15 that because of such a poor evaluation --

    16 Q. I think I'm going to stop you there. Unless

    17 there's anything qualitatively different, any different

    18 type of event at about the same time that you want to

    19 turn to, I think I have enough by way of an answer.

    20 A. All I can add is that the aggression was

    21 carried out by the HVO.

    22 MR. NICE: Those are the questions I wish to

    23 ask of this witness.

    24 JUDGE MAY: Mr. Kajmovic, thank you for

    25 coming again to the International Tribunal to give your



  82. 1 evidence. You are now released, free to go.

    2 THE WITNESS: Thank you.

    3 (The witness withdrew)

    4 MR. NICE: Before we turn to the next

    5 witness, the position of the defendant Dario Kordic

    6 should probably be reviewed.

    7 JUDGE MAY: The position is this, as

    8 reported: That Mr. Kordic has been detained in the

    9 hospital for x-rays. At least, that was what was

    10 reported to the Trial Chamber. He won't be available

    11 today, but he will be tomorrow.

    12 MR. STEIN: Your Honour, one of the

    13 possibilities discussed amongst ourselves -- realising

    14 this problem now exists, and in order to take advantage

    15 of the one hour and 45 minutes in the afternoon

    16 remaining to us -- is, if it's technically feasible, to

    17 tape the proceedings, both video and audio, in a

    18 language the accused understands, Croatian. And

    19 further, there was access to, at the detention centre, a

    20 player, that he can review all of the afternoon's

    21 activities, in time, given their schedule of events and

    22 meals and whatnot, then theoretically he can review

    23 what has been done and what has been said.

    24 Now, apparently there is some dissent on

    25 that, so I'm trying to work this out. If you can give



  83. 1 us a little time -- you agree?

    2 MR. NAUMOVSKI: Yes.

    3 MR. STEIN: Okay. Apparently there's no

    4 dissent, but the mechanics of it are the problem, and I

    5 don't know the answers to this.

    6 JUDGE MAY: Well, we don't know the answer to

    7 that. We'll have to find out. There's another ten

    8 minutes, quarter of an hour, before the luncheon

    9 adjournment. Are there some matters we can deal with

    10 during that time?

    11 MR. NICE: Probably comparatively few

    12 free-standing administrative matters. There is the

    13 question of the protection of the next witness.

    14 JUDGE MAY: Yes?

    15 MR. NICE: I actually want to establish one

    16 further thing with him. I have been seeing him

    17 myself. There is one further thing I want to establish

    18 with him before I make the application, and I need an

    19 interpreter to do that.

    20 Before I sit down, the statement to accompany

    21 the dossier is probably, I think, in final shape now.

    22 Its earlier format was not what I desired the Chamber

    23 to have, and it had to be reformatted, and it's being

    24 considered by the witness. I'm not sure when he will

    25 be in a position, having checked it, to sign it -- I



  84. 1 hope this afternoon -- but one way or another, it

    2 should be available to the Court and my friends this

    3 afternoon, but I don't think it can be available much

    4 before.

    5 I took the decision this morning, first

    6 thing, to cancel the remaining three witnesses who were

    7 flying in today because I could see, both from the time

    8 taken in cross-examination and from the potential

    9 problems of the defendant's ill health, that it was

    10 almost inevitable we wouldn't get through the witnesses

    11 who were present here and three more, however short

    12 those other three would be. But that, nevertheless,

    13 leaves us with a number of witnesses to be called, if

    14 at all possible, this week.

    15 On top of that, and I just remind everyone,

    16 the two witnesses who took the statement from

    17 Dr. Mujezinovic, and who have been the subject of

    18 complaint by the Defence, are witnesses I intend

    19 effectively to tender so that their allegations can be

    20 raised with them, given the importance they attach to

    21 those allegations.

    22 With the various movements of investigators

    23 from this building, it's sometimes better to make sure

    24 you have your investigators when they're available,

    25 because they may not then be available for some time to



  85. 1 come. And it would be desirable, if possible, to deal

    2 with that issue -- which may not take very long -- this

    3 week as well. But that all suggests a rather heavy

    4 diet, I'm afraid.

    5 MR. STEIN: Just to give something else on

    6 which to chew, apparently, according to co-counsel, the

    7 detention centre, when you hand over a tape, requires

    8 it be 48 hours in advance, to review it, check it for

    9 security purposes. The suggestion I proffered earlier

    10 will only work if Mr. Kordic can review the matter

    11 tonight, because he, as you know from watching, is very

    12 active in the participation of his Defence, writes us

    13 notes all the time, and I perceive that if he had an

    14 opportunity this evening to read and review the tape,

    15 we could be up to speed.

    16 I make this proposal only for this

    17 afternoon. Cross-examination would be a far different

    18 thing in terms of our presentation of the next

    19 witness. We're trying to be as accommodating as we

    20 can, given his situation. I'm told tomorrow he will be

    21 with us, with his leg elevated, and I'm just taking it

    22 session by session.

    23 JUDGE MAY: Well, inquiries will have to be

    24 made as to whether the suggestion -- which certainly is

    25 in a cooperative spirit, but whether in fact it can be



  86. 1 followed through. It would seem that if the tape came

    2 from the Tribunal itself, a Trial Chamber, it would be

    3 difficult for that to be objected to, but bureaucracy

    4 works, sometimes, in a way which is unexpected.

    5 MR. STEIN: The logic of it is unassailable.

    6 I can cite to a case from my jurisdiction in which

    7 logic did not prevail, Judge.

    8 JUDGE MAY: But we don't, clearly, want -- if

    9 at all possible -- to waste this afternoon. The fact

    10 that the investigator's statement is not available

    11 clearly hampers a discussion, but there may be matters

    12 which we can usefully discuss if we can't hear the

    13 evidence. We should certainly hear the application for

    14 measures, and any other housekeeping matters that we

    15 could deal with. If Mr. Smith can be available, so

    16 much the better, and if we can hear what submissions

    17 there are.

    18 MR. NICE: And it may be, even if the

    19 investigator hasn't signed the document, a draft

    20 statement can be provided to show the general form.

    21 JUDGE MAY: Yes, anything of that sort.

    22 Half past 2.00, then.

    23 --- Luncheon recess taken at 12.55 p.m.

    24

    25



  87. 1 --- On resuming at 2.32 p.m.

    2 JUDGE MAY: Mr. Nice, we left matters to be

    3 determined by the Registry as to whether it's possible

    4 to carry out what's been suggested. I don't know if

    5 you've been kept informed of what is feasible and what

    6 isn't, whether the --

    7 MR. NICE: Mr. Stein, actually, is better

    8 informed on this than I because he's been making the

    9 enquires. He's told me the results of his enquires.

    10 MR. STEIN: As I understand, Judge, the good

    11 news is there can be an audio cassette made that the

    12 accused can listen to. We don't have yet the second

    13 prong of the issue, whether at the detention centre

    14 there is an audio cassette available with a headset

    15 that he can use to listen to the tape. Apparently --

    16 have I got that right?

    17 JUDGE MAY: If you like to speak, just --

    18 THE REGISTRAR: There is an audio cassette

    19 available, and they will take appropriate measures, if

    20 it's necessary that he should hear the tape.

    21 MR. STEIN: Because he has no machine to

    22 listen to it.

    23 THE REGISTRAR: But there are machines in the

    24 detention unit.

    25 MR. STEIN: Being technically challenged in



  88. 1 all these things, I -- apparently there's no ability to

    2 do the video and audio that we have because it would

    3 require a real-time sifting out of all the various

    4 languages that come into the real-time video. So in

    5 order to see the witness as well as hear the witness,

    6 it would require some extra work on the part of the

    7 crew here to do just that, and the time required is

    8 literally the same time as the time of the tape. I

    9 think that's correct.

    10 So therefore we're left with just an audio

    11 or, alternatively, some intervention on the part of the

    12 Court to order a transcript made of the video

    13 consistent with the audio.

    14 Now, I suppose there's a third possibility,

    15 and that is that Mr. Kordic could listen to the audio

    16 and look at the video, although the two would not be in

    17 sync. So he would have his video recorder and his

    18 audio recorder and bit and piece together things, which

    19 is not necessarily a bad result. That's option 1

    20 available to Your Honour. We'll do whatever you wish.

    21 Again, limited to the direct examination, not the

    22 cross, because our cross will be, in large measure,

    23 shaped by our clients' instructions.

    24 JUDGE MAY: Of course.

    25 (Trial Chamber confers)



  89. 1 JUDGE MAY: Very well. If that's a

    2 possibility, we'll do that. It may be that the amount

    3 of evidence will have to be limited from the point of

    4 view of the practicality of the thing. Certainly, no more

    5 than an hour, because the accused has got to listen to it

    6 tonight.

    7 MR. NICE: Of course.

    8 JUDGE MAY: That would hold things up, but it

    9 might be sensible, if we can get an hour's evidence in,

    10 to do it while we can.

    11 MR. NICE: I'm very happy to do that, and I

    12 think I have four witnesses here still for the week,

    13 many of whom have given evidence once or twice before;

    14 not many, some of them.

    15 JUDGE MAY: The sooner we get on with it, the

    16 better.

    17 MR. NICE: Can we go into either closed, or

    18 if its sufficient, private session to deal with the

    19 issue of the protection of the next witness?

    20 JUDGE MAY: Yes. But may I say that while

    21 we're dealing with it, whoever is taking this witness

    22 should aim to compress the evidence in chief into an

    23 hour. It really would save a great deal of time for

    24 everybody.

    25 MR. NICE: I'm sure I will.



  90. 1 JUDGE MAY: It's a substantial witness, I

    2 have no doubt, but still.

    3 MR. NICE: It may help if we simply go

    4 into -- I'm in the Court's hands, whether it's safer to

    5 go into full private session for the application to be

    6 made. I don't -- full closed session. I beg your

    7 pardon.

    8 While that's being done, the Court should

    9 have, as my friends opposite have, a summary in, on

    10 this occasion, seven pages.

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