Witness 5 Halil Morina
Watson: I'm confused, perhaps you could help me out. So far, the witnesses have been so poor they've actually bolstered the defence case. Namely that the Kosovo Albnians were treated well under Belgrade rule and that there's precious little evidence of Yugo war crimes
Holmes: Yup, it's certainly not the best start to a case. And what's more ironic is the fact that the Hague have an annual budget of a quarter of a billion bucks a year whilst Slobo has
a) a pencil
b) a piece of paper
c) a public telephone which he can use for a couple of hours a day and which is usually out of order
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d) a computer in his cell but no internet connection
Watson: Cripers, David is indeed kicking the crap out of Goliath.
Holmes: Right you are
Watson: Anyway, I heard that witness five got rave reviews in the press.
Holmes: The BBC were swept away by the guy "Retired farmer Halil Morina, 65, told the court how his family fled for their lives as Serb troops went on a killing spree in the village of Landovice." they cooed. Unfortunately it was the same awful recipe. A dollop of bombast, two kilos of lies, a bunch of evasiveness, one carton of ever-changing-testimony........
Watson: ........a large pinch of hearsay and a partridge in the pear tree .
Holmes: Result: indegestion. He was from a small village north of Prizren in the south of Kosovo, very near the preivious two witnesses. His evidence is supposed to dovetail with witnesses three and four about supposed Yugo war crimes in the Prizren area. His village is called Landovica which has about 120 houses - which he amusingly classified as a "big village". it's all rustic stuff really.
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Witness: It's a big village; 120 houses.
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Watson: Snigger. Oi be bumpkin oi be. Ooo arr!
Holmes: Now now. In March 99 he saw some smoke from nearby villages and people leaving them.
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Question: Could you see the houses or could you see the results of burning?
Witness: We could see the flames, smoke rising, houses burning.
Question: And do you know what effect that the burning houses had on the villagers of Pirana? What happened to them as a result of that?
Witness: These villagers fled to Srbica e Ulet, and some of them also to Mamusa.
Question: Do you know what type of a village Pirana was? Do you know what the predominant ethnicity was in that village?
Witness: They were Albanians and Gypsies.
Question: Now, sir, I asked you a question earlier if you knew what happened to them. How did you find that out? Was that as a result of anyone telling you that, or did you see it, or how did you find out where they went?
Witness: I saw it for myself.
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Watson: So what? Is this a war crime?
Holmes: Precisely. On March 26th at around 10 am ( page 877 ) the shit hit the fan, as Charles Dickens would say.
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Witness: On the 26th. It all happened at once........ Four soldiers came, and I saw them with my own eyes. The centre of the village is about one kilometre from my home, and there was a clash involving a person, and three persons were killed, and the person who clashed with the soldiers was also killed........They were regular soldiers that were stationed in Landovica, one kilometre away.
Question: Now, as I understand it, sir, you indicated that four of them came to your village and clashed with an individual. Did you know who this individual was?
Witness: He was a resident of our village. Hashim [phoen] Gashi.
Question: Did you see this incident of the clash between the soldiers and this villager, or did you only hear about it?
Witness: No, I didn't see it, and I didn't see either -- the soldiers either alive or dead; I merely heard of this.
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Holmes: Now when Slobo does his cross we'll find out some more about what happened.
An hour later - 11 am - some Serb forces came to the village
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Question: You say troops arrived. Can you describe to the Court, if you would, in as much detail as possible, what you mean by "troops"?
Witness: They came by tanks, Pragas, militia and army troops.
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And
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Question: Tell us what you saw. How many tanks, how many other vehicles did you see?
Witness: I saw three tanks. One was bigger, two were smaller. And Pinzgauer and Pragas
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And
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Witness: Outside the village, on the asphalt road which goes from Prizren to Gjakova.
Question: And how far away is that from the edge of your village?
Witness: The asphalt road is on the edge of the village.
Question: What, if anything, happened upon the arrival of these uniformed people and their vehicles?
Witness: They shelled the houses. A group of families was on the hill. They shot 13 people, ranging from 18 months old to 60 years old. Lots of them were children. Some were injured, some seriously, some lightly.
Question: How long did the shelling go on?
Witness: From 11.00 to 3.00. Four hours.
Question: What effect did the shelling have on the village itself, other than you told us about 13 villagers being killed? What happened to the houses?
Witness: As I said, they fired at the houses too, not very heavy shelling, and that was it.
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And
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Question: What happened to the houses that were struck by shells?
Witness: Some they were destroyed, some were still standing.
Question: Were there any soldiers not in vehicles near the top of the hill?
Witness: No. They came by buses........ The infantry troops came........The troops came after the shelling stopped. They came at 3.00.
Question: You say that these infantry arrived by buses. Are you able to give the Court an estimate as to how many people arrived, how many soldiers arrived?
Witness: Yes. About 150. I can't be sure. I couldn't tell, because I was hiding myself.
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Later he said that the army came to the village in force, many villagers fled, some were killed and the VJ shelled the houses
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Question: Did you ever, from your vantage point, hear any Serbian being spoken by anyone?
Witness: Yes. I heard, when they came to set fire to my own house and to the neighbouring house, speaking Serbian.
Question: Do you recall hearing anyone giving orders of any kind?
Witness: When they first came to shell the village, I heard them.
Question: On Thursday, I believe you told us, and I believe you repeated it again this morning, that they were killing people. Do you remember aparticular incident whereby people in your village were killed?
Witness: Yes. I saw them while they were burning the village. They killed a Gypsy. And when they came down, they killed Avdi Gashi, an Albanian.And a paralysed woman, they set fire to her in her own home.
Question: When those killings occurred, could you overhear anything at all?
Witness: I heard fire shots. I could hear the automatic shots.
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Watson: Ah! he heard shots, but saw nothing. It's essentially worthless hearsay really
Holmes: Yup. He saw nothing. And note that at no time when he talks of the people he claimed were killed in the bombardment does he say he saw them being killed. Anyway, he says the people left before the shelling started so who were these people who stayed behind? KLA? He gives some timelines to the days naughtiness
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Question: How much time elapsed between the beginning of the shelling and the departure of the villagers?
Witness: The bomb -- the shelling was from 11.00 until 3.00.
Question: And when did the people start to leave?
Witness: From 9.00 until 10.00.
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Holmes: BTW, he contradicts himself everywhere.
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Witness: Yes. Two homes were burnt. Two Drama, two cars.
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And the very next sentence we get something completely different
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Witness: Only the livestock remained. Everything had been razed to the ground.
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And later he claimed that 75% had been destroyed
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Question:Now, sir, as you went around the village, you earlier told us that there was about 120 houses in your village before the attack; is that right?
Witness: Yes, that's right.
Question: Are you able to give an estimate to this Court as to how many of those houses were destroyed as a result of this attack?
Witness: Seventy-five per cent were burned and destroyed.
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So which is it? 2 houses? everything? Or 75%?
He said that the army had killed 13 people but was unable to name 11 of them. Remember that this guy had lived his whole life in a very small village, was a retired farmer yet couldn't name practically any of the dead. Is that credible?
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Question: Can you tell us who, if anyone, you can recall having been killed?
Witness: The day that they were killed, Ismet Gashi was the first, then his mother. You have written the names in my statement: Suzana, Fatime, Nikmini, one and a half years old.
Question: Witness. Just because you have given a statement listing those names, until you tell this Court about them, the Court isn't going to know, so I have to ask you the names. I can't assist you with that. So please tell us. Just because it's in your statement doesn't mean that we know about it until you tell us today, okay?
Witness: Now I don't remember the names. Three years have passed. Ismet Gashi, Fatime, I remember.
Question: All right, sir. I'm not asking you to remember all of the names, but you knew the people who were killed; is that correct?
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Slobo points it out
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Slobo: You spend your entire life in Landovica; right?
Witness: I stayed in Landovica from the 26th to the 30th.
Slobo: But you lived in Landovica before that for many years; right?
Witness: Yes, yes. All my life I spent there, with the exceptional time I did my military service, which was two years.
Slobo: Precisely. That's just what I asked you. You spent your entire life in Landovica, and you said today here this morning that you do notremember a single name out of 11 of your fellow villagers for whom you claim were killed.
Witness: Some I remember. I said -- the adults, yes, I remember, but the young, the children, I don't remember.
Slobo: But you did not mention a single one except for Gashi.
Witness: I can tell you Ismet Gashi; his mother Fatime, the wife of my cousin, was killed. Zanja, the daughter of my cousin; and the child about one year and a half, two years old.
Slobo: You said, in addition to them, that one Roma were killed and one Albanian. So including that Roma and that Albanian, did you see who killed them?
Witness: The infantry troops killed them. When they burned the houses, they also burnt two bodies inside the houses.
Slobo: Did you see who killed them, though?
Witness: No, I did not, because we saw the dead bodies on the next day. Avdi Gashi, we saw him dead in his own house.
Slobo: So what did you infer? What killed them?
Witness: I think because of the killing of the four military soldiers, and the police and the army burned the village and killed them.
Slobo: You did not see that, how they got killed?
Witness: No, I did not.
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Watson: So this guy has spent his entire life - save for two years doing military duty - in this very small hamlet, and yet he can't name any of the dead, save a couple or so.
Holmes: Yuuuuuuuuuuuuup.
Watson: And he didn't see who killed the Roma guy?
Holmes: Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
Watson: Is this evidence?
Holmes: Noooooooooooooope. Anyway back at the ranch, the troops left at 7pm. He said that the next day - the 27th March - the army returned and destroyed the mosque.
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Question: We're on the 27th. Was it at this time you saw the mosque or was it later?
Witness: I saw it on the 27th, at 11.00. We came from the field and went back home. Then a group of soldiers came and examined the corpses, andthree of them went to the mosque. They entered the mosque. They had white ribbons on their arms and they started to fire at the mosque, to shell it. In ten minutes, I heard the explosive, a blast, and the minaret fell.
Question: All right. Now, perhaps you could explain exactly what you saw. You said they started to shell it. Can you explain to us what you sawbefore the explosion? Describe to us what occurred.
Witness: They went there by car. They got down out of the car, they entered the mosque, they placed the mine, and I heard the explosion, andthen I saw it toppling down. Nothing else.
Question: All right. So when you say "shelled," you don't mean with a tank; you meant that they carried something inside? I think you said it was amine or something?
Witness: Mines. They had something -- they were carrying something in their hand. No, they didn't use tanks.
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Witness: They stayed awhile, examined the bodies that were up in the house on the hill, shelled the mosque, and left. Again they came at around 12.00.
Slobo: All right. And just so that we're clear, when you say "shelled the mosque," you're now giving that expression to what you've told us earlier about going into the mosque and setting off an explosion. There's no additional shelling going on.
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Watson: So he's confused. One time he talks about "shelling" the building, then he says they "planted mines" which is completely different.
Holmes: Well spotted that fine man. Anyway, the soldeirs collected some bodies
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Question: Now, sir, you've told us that at about 12.30, soldiers returned; And what, if anything, did you see them do when they returned at 12.30 on the 27th of March?
Witness: They didn't do any harm, only took away the corpses.
Question: And again, the people that came back at 12.30, were they again army?
Witness: They were carrying light weapons.
Question: And could you hear the commander give any instructions to the soldiers?
Witness: They went to that house where the dead were, and I heard him telling them, "Come with me. Let's go to that house where the bodies are," and they went there.
Question: All right. Now, sir, that's the 27th. The bodies were collected.
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His family stayed till the 30th and went ot Srbica
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Question: When you got to Srbica, were there any other refugees there?
Witness: Yes. We found there about 800 inhabitants of Pirana.
Question: Now, this Pirana, that's the village that you told us about on Thursday that was three kilometres away that had been attacked before yourvillage; is that right?
Witness: Yes, that's right.
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Watson: What happened to the other villagers?
Holmes: Well, the other villagers went to Prizren. About why he went to Albania, it just gets, well, you guessed it, it just gets very confusing. Anyway, a condensed version is that
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Question: Do you know why it was that the civilians arranged for the buses?
Witness: The army gave the orders for the refugees to leave, because of their neighbours. So that their neighbours wouldn't be damaged because ofall the bombarding, they should leave. Serb neighbours that helped the Albanians because they had been living there together for so long. Theydidn't want the Albanians to get hurt. That's why they helped.
Question:All right. And you say it was the Serb army that gave the orders?
Witness: I didn't see them give the order, but villagers from my village told me that we have to leave because the Serbs had taken orders to get rid of the refugees. They came and let us know that we had to leave the village.
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Watson: So some people told him that the Serbs told them to leave Kosovo? More hearsay malarkey.
Holmes: Yup, and note that the Serb civillians, out of concern for the safety of their Kosovo Albanian friends laid on the buses. It's anything but "expulsion". Anywyay, he went to Albania
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Witness: From the entrance to Prizren, they didn't do anything up to Zhur, to the buses. They just opened the way. When we arrived in Zhur, we gotoff the buses and then we had to walk.
Question: And how far was Zhur from the Albanian border?
Witness: I can't be very precise. Maybe three, four, maximum five kilometres. I can't be accurate.
Question: What happened at the border, if anything, sir?
Witness: They took away our IDs, our passports.
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Watson: So, he said the police threw the IDs on the ground. Hmmmmm. That's it? Being rude to a piece of paper that has your name on it? That's it?
Holmes: Yup. When Slobo started his cross, a few things became clearer. Or not as the case may be. About his village. At first he claimed it was purely ethnic Albanian.
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Question: Other than Kosovar Albanians, was there another ethnic group resident there?
Witness:No. Only Albanians.
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But soon changed that to "a few Rom"
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Question:And was there a particular neighbourhood within Landovica that was largely occupied by the Roma or Gypsy people?
Witness:No. No. There were only a few.
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Later he changed this to 20 houses, or about 20% of the village. Very different from "a few" . Slobo's numbers were even higher, being about 50% ( page 907 ).
But this is just the beginning to his, erm, confused state of mind.
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Slobo: So at 9.00, you were on the hill, and from the hill you saw that Pirana was on fire. You are claiming that there were no military men on the hill. And then -- let me just see whether I have understood correctly what you have said. Then you went home, took the car, went to Donja Srbica, picked up your children. You say that Donja Srbica is three, four kilometres away. You picked up your children, you returned from Donja Srbica to your house, and then you did not see anything; and then, five minutes later, you heard shooting. And everything you described happened within one hour. Isn't that -- is that right?
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When pressed upon this series of events, the witness changed his mind - no shit Sherlock -
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Witness: It's my mistake. Maybe I didn't give you the right date or the date for that. I should have given the date.
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Holmes: The judge stops Slobo from asking any more questions on this matter, even though, as Slobo pointed out "He answered that he did not say the truth."
Watson: The honesty - or lack of - on the part of the prosecution witnesses is obviously of no concern to the judge. A very strange kind of trial it seems.
Holmes: As with nearly all prosecution witnesses, their knowledge, is rather patchy, it seems the water at the ICTY causes amnesia.
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Slobo: Did you hear that on the 25th - that is to say, the day when you say that part of Pirana was set on fire - did you hear that on the 25th, NATO had hit the gasoline station Fatani, in the village of Pirana?
Witness doesn't recall
Slobo: And do you know the gasoline station Fatani, in Pirana........On the 25th, when NATO was bombing, they hit the gasoline stationat Fatani and this caused a fire. Nobody told you anything about that?
Witness doesn't recall
Slobo:A few minutes ago, you said that all the time while you were in Landovica and in Srbica, you did not hear anything about NATO bombing; isn't that right?
Witness doesn't recall
Slobo: And you did not see airplanes or bombings of any of the grounds near your village all the while while you were there?
Witness doesn't recall
Slobo: Do you know that from the 24th of March until the end of March, the time that you were there, NATO bombed the area in which your village is located, as well as Prizren and the environs, several times a day? But you heard the bombing, I assume.
Witness doesn't recall
Slobo:You didn't hear the bombing either?
Witness doesn't recall
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This got so embarrassing, the judges had to weigh in and try to save our hapless witness.
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Judge: Mr. Milosevic, let me clarify something. I believe in answer to a question that you asked, he said that he didn't see it himself - that's the bombing - but he had heard of the bombing. Is that right?
Witness: Yes
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Watson: But, seconds before, hadn't he said he hadn't heard the bombing either?
Holmes: Yep. So he changes his story at the drop of a hat - or in this case the insistence of a judge. Some more about NATO's shrewd choice of targets
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Slobo: The vineyards of Landovica, do they belong to the enterprise of Kosovovino from Mala Krusa?
Witness: Sometimes it belongs to Krusha e Mahde. We -- now we don't have anything now. Nothing is left of these vineyards.
Slobo: And why is nothing left of these vineyards?
Witness: Because there is nobody to work there in those vineyards.
Slobo: Did you see these vineyards when they were bombed, those in Landovica?
Witness: Yes. I have seen them after I came from Albania.
Slobo: And what do you think? Why were the vineyards bombed?
Witness: Because the army was deployed there for two years. Probably they thought that soldiers are still there and they have bombed, shelled them.
Slobo: I think that they bombed the vineyards, too, because they were bombing the army in the vineyards. We agree on that point. The Prizren area, during the war, 342 airstrikes were launched, that is to say, five a day, and you claim that you never saw a single airstrike or heard it.
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About the shooting of the soldiers, yet again our hero seems to be having problems. This time his ears obviously don't work too well
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Witness: There were no KLA soldiers in our village.
Slobo:Who did the shooting? Who shot at the soldiers, then?
Witness: The person who got killed.
Slobo:You said that a civilian was killed in the centre of the village on the occasion and that his name was Hajim Gashi.
Witness: Yes.
Slobo: Do you now claim that that civilian shot at those four soldiers?
Witness: I told you: I didn't see them either alive or dead, but I heard that he killed them.
Slobo: So you say that nobody else did the shooting, just the man who got killed himself?
Witness: I'm telling you again: I didn't see it with my own eyes. I don't like to lie. That's not my habit. Since I didn't see or hear anything, I heard he was killed, and that's it.
Slobo: And that three out of the four soldiers were killed; you heard that too, did you?
Witness: Yes, I heard.
Slobo: But you heard the shooting?
Witness: No, I didn't.
Slobo: You didn't even hear the shooting?
Witness: We didn't hear the shooting either, no. Because I told you: We were at home. All our family was eating then. We were at home. We didn't hear anything.
Slobo:And from one and a half kilometres away, you weren't able to hear the shooting?
WItness: No. You can hear the shots, but the television was on, the children were there. We were a lot of people at home. There was a lot of noise. Even if there was a cannon, I wouldn't hear, not a rifle shot.
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Watson: New ears please.
Holmes: Pardon?
Watson: Snigger
Holmes: Anyway, he later admitted that the shots that killed the soldiers came from the house of a Tahir Berisha.
Watson: So it's pretty obvious that the soldiers were ambushed, they shot back, killed one man. That's it. WOW! Some crime.
Holmes: Right you are fames doc. The witness gets flustered and the judge refuses to allow any more questions along this line. Slobo asks why.
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Slobo: Mr. May, four soldiers coming to a village, to a shop to buy only juice are killed by shooting from the houses of that village, not by phantoms but by members of the KLA. Now, I am asking where these members from the KLA came from.
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The KLA were obviously there, for the dead were covered by the killers with an Albanian flag.
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Slobo: Did you hear - because you say you saw nothing - did you hear that when they killed the three soldiers, they went up to another one that still showed signs of life and shot a round of gunfire? Did you hear about that?
Witness: To tell you the truth, I did not hear anything. And in the evening, my family left the house and took to the mountain. If I heard anything, I would have left also with the others.
Slobo: But did you hear that after they had killed those soldiers, they covered them with an Albanian flag? Did you hear about that event?
Witness: No. To tell you the truth, no.
Slobo: How long did the fighting go on between the soldiers and the KLA before the KLA entered the village?
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Holmes: Now, the witness, when he made his statement claimed the KLA had in fact murdered the soldiers, then he changed this statement. So the guy's a liar. A bloody awful one mind but a liar none the less.
Watson: Liar, liar, pants on fire Nah nah nu nah nah. ( Sticks out toungue )
Holmes: Well put.
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Ryneveld: As I indicated in that proofing, that in his original statement, there was reference to the soldiers having been killed by KLA.
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The village was in fact the location for a KLA HQ
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Question: Now I have another question and it is this: Before, previously, did you ever go into the house? And let me tell you which one I mean. Across the stream, 200 metres away from the shop. That's the house I mean, in which the KLA had its headquarters. So across the brook or stream, 200 metres away from the shop, in the centre.
Witness: What headquarters? I don't understand.
Slobo: Did you hear -- did you happen to hear, perhaps, if you didn't see, what the soldiers found in that house: maps, ammunition? What else? Did you hear about that?
Witness: No, I didn't hear anything
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Watson: New brains please.
Holmes: The judge yet again refuses to allow Slobo to ask any further questions. It's pathetic really. Slobo goes in for the kill with regards to the KLA in the village - page 928 - and the villager's complete lack of knowledge about such things - though he'd admitted he'd lived his entire life in this minute tidgy dinky doo doo village -
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Slobo: You said that in Landovica there were no members of the KLA, and now I'm asking you whether any of the citizens of Landovica was a member of the KLA.
Witness: I don't know of it. I don't know of any one of them being a KLA member. Maybe there were some. I don't know. But they didn't tell me.
Slobo: And how do you explain, then, that after the war, in Landovica, the monument to Boro and Ramiz was destroyed? Wasn't it destroyed?
Witness: Yes, it was.
Slobo: And what was put in place of this monument to Boro and Ramiz?
( Note: Ramiz Sadiku and Boro Vukomanovic were a famous Albanian-Serbian partisan duo who fought the NAZIs and died in 44 )
Witness: With dead soldiers of KLA.
Slobo: From Landovica?
Witness: Yes.
Slobo: How could a monument be built to the dead soldiers of the KLA from Landovica if there weren't any in the first place?
Witness: The KLA -- I don't know. The KLA must have done that. I don't know.
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He changed his story about the destruction of mosque too - No shit Sherlock
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Slobo: You said that the army, on the 27th, shelled the mosque.
Witness: Yes.
Slobo: Afterwards you corrected yourself. You said that it had not shelled the mosque but that an explosive device had been planted there.
Witness: The minaret fell.
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He claimed ignorance about the prescence the Mujahideen ( Muslim Brotherhood ) in the area - the Dervish communities -
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Slobo: And did you hear of the establishment of Mujahedin groups related to the activities of the dervish order in your area, in Prizren, for example?
Witness: No, I have not.
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And
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Slobo:Do you have any knowledge whatsoever about the following: How many people were killed in Landovica, Pirana, Srbica, Suva Reka, by the KLA during these operations? Did you hear anything about that?
Witness: No
Slobo: All right. But among those 72 men that were killed by the KLA, there were 19 Albanians and one Roma. Were you not interested in that?
Witness: No.
Slobo: You don't know. Very well. Did you move along the road between Srbica and Stimlje........do you happen to know where Klecka is along that road, where the place called Klecka is, on the road between Srbica and Stimlje?
Witness: No
Slobo: So you didn't hear about the massacre that took place there when a lot of Serbs were killed by the KLA, precisely in this place called Klecka?
Witness: No
Slobo: All right. Very well. Do you remember that in the village of Pirana - because you mentioned Pirana all the time. It's a village thatyou make frequent reference to - in December 1998, a policeman, an Albanian, was killed. His name was Xhafiqi, Imer Xhafiqi, and he was an employee of the SUP and he was killed by the KLA.
Witness: I know that he disappeared , I don't know anything about his whereabouts. I don't want to lie here.
Slobo: And do you remember when the KLA killed three Albanians - Zajim Turajushi [phoen], Zefe Hasani, and Seftar Shumar, as well as the Serb Blagoje Jovanovic - precisely in your neighbourhood, also in 1998? Did you hear about that, just like you heard about Imer Xhafiqi?
Witness: No
Slobo: Do you remember the attack on the police station, four attacks, between the 7th and 15th of June, 1998, with mortars -- in July 1998, between the 7th and 15th of July, in the villages around you?
Witness: No
Slobo:Did you happen to see or do you happen to remember that in July 1999, from Prizren to Brezovica, on the road, the KLA marked all Serb houses with yellow paint? Because you say you had returned by that time.
Witness: No
Slobo: All right. Do you happen to remember when Najit Hasani, from the village of Randobrava, attacked Professor Papovic, rector of the Pristina university --
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Holmes: At this point the judge weighs in again to relieve the floundering witness. The lad's on the ropes. Some more inconsistencies uncovered by Slobo's numero deux, Tapuskovic .
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Tapuskovic: I'm asking this, Judge May, because in this statement of his which you have before you, he said the 3rd of April. The date he gives is the 3rd of April.
Witness: We went to Srbica.
Tapuskovic: You said earlier on that you left the village on the 3rd of April; is that right?
Witness: Maybe it was a mistake. On the 30th of March. The 30th of March.
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Watson: So are you telling me that
- He didn't see the Serbs kill anyone , let alone murder anyone
- He wasn't told to leave his village he chose to
- He was confused as to how the minaret of the mosque was destroyed
- He got a lot of simple facts of the events mixed up
- He could hardly name any of the dead thirteen
- He didn't see how or who killed the Roma guy
- He professed complete ignorance about the numerous murders of ethnic Serbs , Rom and loyallist Albanians by the KLA
- The four Yugo Soldiers were obviously murdered by the KLA because
- He admitted it in his first statement then changed his story
- The bodies were found with the Albanian flag covering them
- There was a KLA HQ with maps , ammo etc in the village
- The KLA erected a statue to commemorate the event
- He admitted that NATO destroyed a nearby vineyard
- He has no idea about NATO bombings even though they bombed the Pristina area daily
- The KLA showed their true NAZI colours by destroying a monument for WW2 partisans.
Holmes: Yup. The quality of the witnesses doesn't get any better, but at least it's fun having a laugh. Slobo wins a sexy nude video of Paris Hilton: the ICTY? A sexy nude video of Madeleine Albright
Holmes and Watson: Arf
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