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Brammertz has to prove that Gotovina aimed deliberately civil objects but they do not have the proof for this (If you see some moments of trial till now, you will understand that what they are trying to demonstrate really does not hold the water). So, among
the documents he does have are some artillery diaries, partially found lost on the ground by UN officers, some came from Croatian archives. He does not have any evidence that any more of them exist, he supposes that they must have existed because he needs it to prove his case. Croatian part says that that's all they have and that there is nothing more within their reach. The
accusation that not the whole time is covered they explain with negligence of soldiers who either lost some part (that is not impossible because some parts were already found by UN) or they were not written (that is also possible considering that they were even leaving them around). So, if they do not exist, the
Croatian government can not do anything and the thing can go forever. If they did exist, Croatian government would not do anything if Brammertz does not face them with the evidence that they existed or with clear indications who hid it. But the fact is that Brammertz does not have anything more but his imaginative proof he would like to have.
by SteelLady on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 07:22:58 AM EST
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I found english transcripts of the ICTY trial. There are a lot of interesting details but there is so much material that we can not analyse it here, maybe in the future I will put some more. One of the transcripts is here:

http://www.icty.org/x/cases/gotovina/trans/en/080408ED.htm

There is a tape introduced with the witness 6 of the prosecution that shows 'Knin bombarded all over'. The defensor asked for the original copy of the prosecution where, instead of the sirens and bombarding you can hear birds singing. And later he has shown that instead of the town bombarded in many places, the serbian colonel that provided the proof recorded the image putting himself in the center of the smoke of the Tvik factory (which was producing weapons) recording towards outside so it appeared that everything around is covered with smoke.

There were various proofs of this kind during the trial, the school that was hit because it was closed with army troops inside, one projectile beside the hospital, beside which lied the weapon the serbian side was shooting from. I believe all of these things can be found in different transcripts from the trial. So, if the prosecution does not find strong evidence in photographic material that would show that the civil points were deliberately aimed, the written affirmation from Gotovina's soldiers that they did it, would be a nice solution for the prosecutor. Besides, why would someone prefer artillery diaries to photographic evidence that is taken a lot during the war?

There are these kind of proofs that particular houses were being destroyed, not by artillery but by perticulars (war vultures going around those houses committing robbery, burning the houses or killing) but they can not prove that Gotovina had the control of them.

by SteelLady on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 09:25:50 AM EST
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