1 Monday, 28 February 2005

2 [Open session]

3 [The witness entered court]

4 [The accused entered court]

5 --- Upon commencing at 9.03 a.m.

6 JUDGE ROBINSON: Mr. Nice, your application for a number of

7 documents to be handed over to the witness so that he could read them over

8 the weekend was received late, so we couldn't deal with it. We would have

9 granted it since we consider it to be a useful practice, subject to the

10 understanding that -- the witness wasn't hearing. Is the witness now

11 hearing? No. Is the witness now hearing? Yes.

12 I was saying to Mr. Nice that his application for a number of

13 documents to be handed over to you, Professor, for you to read over the

14 weekend to facilitate his cross-examination was received late, so in the

15 result the Trial Chamber was not able to deal with it. Had we received it

16 on time, we would have granted it since we consider it to be a useful

17 practice. It facilitates and expedites the process. Subject, of course,

18 to the understanding that it's a matter for the witness to decide whether

19 he wants to read the documents ahead of his examination.

20 Mr. Nice, please proceed.

21 WITNESS: VUKASIN ANDRIC [Resumed]

22 [Witness answered through interpreter]

23 Cross-examined by Mr. Nice: [Continued]

24 Q. We were on, of the defendant's exhibits, tab 3, and we were

25 reviewing a witness statement in English of Dr. Pallaska. I nearly

1 concluded all I wanted to ask about that statement, the doctor not being

2 named in tab 3 but qualifying under the general description there as being

3 a member of the medical faculty of Albanian nationality who remained in

4 post in Pristina after 1991.

5 And, Mr. Andric, you will recall that we were looking at this

6 statement last week, and I only have a couple of other things to ask you

7 about it. On page 3, at its foot this witness -- it's not witness. This

8 doctor explained, when spoken to -- we can now see the witness statement,

9 please. Put it on the overhead projector. While it's coming your way I

10 will explain what he said.

11 He explained that on the 28th of March, while on duty at Pristina

12 hospital, he was approached by a Serbian police officer and told that he

13 was on the list for execution, something that was confirmed to him by a

14 Serbian doctor, Dr. Rodojicic, later, she being in tears.

15 Now, you've given a general account of things. Do you exclude as

16 possible that one of these doctors working in the Pristina hospital should

17 have been told he was on an execution list and that's exactly what led him

18 to leave the area?

19 A. This is the first time I hear of this case, but Dr. Rodojicic

20 could possibly talk about it. I personally don't believe this is true,

21 especially since the doctor said in the first part of his statement that

22 Albanian doctors were prohibited from talking to Albanian patients in the

23 Albanian language. That is simply unbelievable. Dr. Pallaska, after

24 saying that, could easily have continued on to say that he had been

25 killed.

1 Q. Let's not beat about the bush. You're prepared to say that this

2 man, this doctor, who left the town where he lived has lied, so far just

3 to an investigator, and left Kosovo for some other reason? You're

4 prepared to say that, are you, Mr. Andric?

5 A. Mr. Nice, I have no reason to believe him.

6 Q. Very well.

7 A. I repeat that he had uttered something absolutely unbelievable.

8 The man who is capable of saying something like this --

9 JUDGE ROBINSON: Thank you. Let's move on.

10 MR. NICE:

11 Q. Yes. And two other things from this witness. He accepts, as the

12 evidence has already revealed, that there was -- in this case, that there

13 was a voluntary 3 per cent payment by some to the party of Ibrahim Rugova

14 but there was no suggestion that it was ever compulsory. It was voluntary

15 payment. You may have seen a man collecting it, but this was a voluntary

16 collection. Yes or no.

17 A. This is the first time I hear it was 3 per cent. I never knew the

18 percentage, but I know for sure that everybody was obliged to pay, and I

19 know in particular that many of them were grumbling about it because they

20 didn't have enough money to feed their families let alone finance a

21 terrorist movement.

22 MR. NICE: If Mr. Prendergast would be good enough just to turn

23 the statement over to the last line.

24 Q. This doctor, to an investigator, suggested that so far as he was

25 concerned the strikes were welcome, the NATO strikes, and that on no

1 account did he leave because of them. Now, you've given a very

2 generalised account. Do you accept - just yes or no - that anyone

3 welcomed the NATO strikes, or would you say that everybody was driven from

4 Kosovo by them?

5 A. It is Dr. Pallaska's right to say what he thought about the NATO

6 bombing. I have nothing against his personal welcoming the NATO strikes.

7 MR. NICE: Your Honours, that's all I ask about this statement.

8 I'm going to ask that the eight statements in all that have been obtained

9 in response to this series of exhibits be exhibited, but perhaps that can

10 be addressed in due course.

11 [Trial Chamber confers]

12 JUDGE ROBINSON: We will address the question a little later.

13 MR. NICE: Thank you. Tab 5. May the witness have a set of his

14 own exhibits. Tab 4 comes next.

15 JUDGE ROBINSON: Mr. Milosevic, yes?

16 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Maybe I was not attentive enough,

17 but where is the name of this Dr. Pallaska in this tab 3 Mr. Nice is

18 referring to?

19 MR. NICE: It's not. I've made the point on several occasions it

20 wasn't there. It was the doctor the investigator was able to find who met

21 the defining characteristics of tab 3 once it had been corrected in court

22 that it related to a period after 1991 and not 1999.

23 Q. So tab 4, please. We can look at this very briefly. This is the

24 list of Albanian doctors employed in the health centre who left their post

25 in 1991. Again it's just a list of names. It doesn't provide any other

1 source material, does it, Dr. Andric?

2 It's his exhibit, tab 4. This list was presumably prepared by

3 someone else on your behalf.

4 A. I must look at the source document and the translation into

5 Serbian in order to be able to comment upon it because I'm not quite clear

6 on this. Can I have a look at my own documents?

7 Q. [Previous translation continues] ... in English. I'm not sure

8 whether we've got this in Serbian.

9 A. I have the Serbian version with me.

10 Q. All I know is what I've been given, and my question is simply

11 this: Is this something that was -- can he have whatever is the --

12 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes. Please give tab 4 to the witness.

13 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Mr. Nice, what -- yes, that's it.

14 You said this was -- I didn't quite understand. What is this supposed to

15 be?

16 MR. NICE:

17 Q. I don't know. It's your exhibit, you see. You produced it. You

18 tell us what it is.

19 A. No. This is a list of private practices --

20 Q. You prepared it.

21 A. -- in the town of Prizren, Mr. Nice. Please, let me have a look.

22 It's written in English, I don't have the document in Serbian. So it's a

23 list of private medical practices opened by doctors who had left their

24 jobs in order to open private practices in Prizren.

25 Q. [Previous translation continues] ... list?

1 A. The list was prepared by my services.

2 MR. NICE: Can't deal with that, Your Honours, and haven't been

3 able to find any of the names.

4 Q. Tab 5.1. We now come to a film, or the video. Can you explain to

5 me, please, was this video we saw a single film or was it compilation of

6 lots of bits of film?

7 A. Before I answer this question, Mr. Nice, I have to say this: The

8 document before was the list of Albanian doctors who had their private

9 practices in Prizren, including two surgical clinics which employed a

10 large number of surgeons.

11 Q. [Previous translation continues] ... time, Dr. Andric. Please

12 listen to the questions. The film --

13 A. I will tell you quickly. The film.

14 Q. Was it a single film or a compilation?

15 A. It's a compilation. I wrote, when the service required me to

16 produce it, that I had enough material for 20 hours of viewing. Out of

17 those 20 hours, we singled out the most valuable material worthy of

18 showing. There are several sources, therefore. It's not all from one

19 single source.

20 Q. Though you're not in every clip, not in every part of the film,

21 you nevertheless were responsible for choosing the material that was put

22 in; is that right?

23 A. Correct.

24 Q. Did you do the cutting yourself? Did you do the cutting of the

25 film yourself?

1 A. No. How would I be able to do the cutting? I'm not an expert.

2 Q. And as to the passages of film where you yourself are not present,

3 who was the interviewing journalist?

4 A. It depends on the clip. In some clips, you could see journalist

5 Borivoje Obrenovic, from Prizren, which means from Radio-Television Serbia

6 or Radio-Television Prizren. There were several Albanian journalists also

7 working for the RTS. And there was contribution about monoethnic

8 imaginary poisoning presented by another journalist of the RTS.

9 Q. By this time press freedom in Kosovo didn't exist, did it?

10 A. You say that press freedom did not exist in Kosovo. If it didn't

11 exist there, it didn't exist at all. There was freedom of press.

12 Q. The accused controlled Politika and all the other major Belgrade

13 organs of communication, didn't he?

14 A. That is not true.

15 Q. Is it not? Veton Surroi --

16 A. That is not correct, Mr. Nice. There were newspapers, television

17 channels that were completely free.

18 Q. And --

19 A. There were also opposition newspapers in Belgrade. In fact, there

20 were more opposition newspapers in Belgrade than those that supported the

21 government.

22 Q. Veton Surroi told us about his being closed down. Is he right?

23 A. I'm not aware of that.

24 Q. [Previous translation continues] ... Veton Surroi,

25 parliamentarian, much respected man, not someone you can accuse of being a

1 member of the KLA. He told us his paper was closed down. You were a

2 member of the civil administration: True or false?

3 A. I didn't know what kind of civil administration you mean. The

4 civil administration does not ring any bells.

5 Q. [Previous translation continues] ...

6 A. I don't know that term.

7 Q. The temporary Executive Council of which you were a member and at

8 which we're going to look, if I have the time, was the only civil

9 administration in Kosovo from October 1998 onwards, wasn't it? There

10 wasn't any other civil administration.

11 A. There existed the provisional provincial Executive Council, there

12 existed districts.

13 Q. [Previous translation continues]... provisional Executive

14 Council? Please help us: What body was there in Kosovo dealing with

15 civil administration superior to your provisional Executive Council?

16 There wasn't one, was there?

17 A. No, there wasn't.

18 Q. So after about three or four questions, Dr. Andric, am I not right

19 that your provisional Executive Council was the civil administration in

20 Kosovo at the material time?

21 JUDGE ROBINSON: There may be a problem with the word "civil." He

22 said he didn't understand the use of it.

23 MR. NICE: Very well.

24 Q. Non-military administration was by your council.

25 JUDGE ROBINSON: What's the answer?

1 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Am I supposed to answer?

2 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes.

3 MR. NICE: Yes.

4 JUDGE ROBINSON: He's -- Mr. Nice is putting to you that your

5 provisional Executive Council was the only non-military body at that

6 time. Its operation -- there was none superior to it.

7 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I don't know whether it was the only

8 non-military body, but it was certainly a non-military body. Whether

9 there was within the hierarchy something superior to the provisional

10 Executive Council, I don't know. I am not qualified to discuss this. I

11 don't know if there was a body superior to our provisional council.

12 MR. NICE:

13 Q. Well, let's just see if in whatever high or low position you had

14 you can remember this, and it's one example of press restriction: In

15 October of 1998, did the Serbian government pass a decree allowing

16 censorship of foreign media and banning broadcast of news programmes from

17 the BBC, Voice of America and RFE? Do you remember that just as an

18 example of press control?

19 A. I'm really sorry, Mr. Nice, but you're asking questions that I'm

20 simply not able to answer. I cannot speak to things that I know nothing

21 about.

22 Q. Just a few minutes ago you told me --

23 A. I am a medical doctor, a humanitarian worker, and I did my job. I

24 didn't deal with the press. I really know nothing about this and I cannot

25 comment.

1 Q. [Previous translation continues] ... I suggest that you're a

2 humanitarian worker before this court and a doctor when it suits you.

3 You're a politician when it suited you as well. Only a few minutes ago,

4 you explained in the most fulsome terms that the press was free. Now when

5 I ask you about press restraint, you say you can't help us. Is your

6 position you don't know whether the press was free?

7 A. Mr. Nice, whether the press was free or not is something I cannot

8 elaborate upon, but I do know that in Kosovo and Metohija at the time when

9 I was there, and I spent my whole life there, there were 25 different

10 newspapers and magazines in Albanian and only one in Serbian, called

11 Jedinstvo. In addition to that, there was Television Pristina, which

12 broadcast in Albanian for almost the full 24 hours, and only one hour in

13 Serbian. I cannot comment on technical issues but I know the ratio of

14 broadcasting and press releases.

15 Q. The reason I press this issue on you is the following: You knew

16 and you know that when somebody pretending to be or being a journalist

17 speaks to refugees in Kosovo at a time when the authorities, it may be,

18 have been killing and throwing people out, a journalist is as much a

19 potential figure of authority as a member of the council or a policeman,

20 isn't he, because this was effectively a totalitarian rule still.

21 A. I think that is not true, Mr. Nice. How can a journalist be the

22 same thing as a figure of authority or a policeman? I do not understand

23 that proposition. A journalist is a journalist. He was doing his job.

24 He couldn't have known in advance, just as I couldn't have known in

25 advance I would be sitting in this courtroom.

1 Q. Let's move to, then, rapidly 5.1, and I'm going to go through all

2 these sections very quickly.

3 The poisoning, or the alleged poisoning, I only have two

4 questions. Can you help me with these, please: First, is it right that

5 schoolchildren were divided ethnically and so that one group was taught in

6 the morning and one was taught in the afternoon but in the same buildings?

7 A. I think that's true.

8 Q. Second --

9 A. But all children came into contact with each other. Certain

10 classes overlapped.

11 Q. Second, is it right that there were observations -- no. I found

12 it.

13 Second, is it right, as we can see looking on in your tab to tab

14 6, that on page 3 of tab 6, that the commission dealing with the poisoning

15 had --

16 A. I don't have these tabs in front of me.

17 Q. [Previous translation continues] ... newspaper report, and we can

18 see it on page 3 of the English. If Mr. Prendergast would help. It's

19 right that on the commission delegate Mirjana Saranovic objected that no

20 single health worker from Kosovo attended the session of the commission,

21 although at the foot of the same paragraph, it's a bit -- page 3, foot of

22 the same paragraph the point was made by someone that even if physicians

23 from Kosovo had attended, said Vojvodic, no professional talks would have

24 been possible because they wouldn't have been the right people to join the

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1 representation; correct?

2 JUDGE ROBINSON: Mr. Nice, it wasn't clear to me what the precise

3 question was.

4 MR. NICE:

5 Q. Is it right that this commission that we've looked at very briefly

6 under tab 6 had no Kosovo representative there?

7 JUDGE KWON: Do we have the English transcript?

8 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Mr. Nice, there were 11 experts from

9 the clinical centre in Ljubljana, from Zagreb and Belgrade on that panel.

10 The commission came to unequivocal conclusions and showed that among the

11 almost 100.000 cases offered, there was not a single genuine case of

12 poisoning. And the World Health Organisation approved these conclusions.

13 MR. NICE:

14 Q. You accept that many UN observers found this was a case of mass

15 hysteria --

16 JUDGE KWON: Microphone.

17 MR. NICE:

18 Q. You accept that many UN observers believed at the time this was a

19 case of mass hysteria?

20 A. I haven't heard about that.

21 Q. One --

22 A. Could have been their position.

23 Q. I think your position is, to borrow the word of His Honour Judge

24 Robinson, that all the children and all the parents were thespians. They

25 were all actors. Is that your position?

1 A. Yes, Mr. Nice, and that can be clearly seen based on the footage

2 that was shown. They acted superbly. When the camera came close to them,

3 they would start acting.

4 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] And I ask this Honourable Chamber to

5 allow me to answer the question. Mr. Nice is not allowing me to answer.

6 Mr. Nice puts questions to me and when I am about to prove that all of

7 this was a case of acting, Mr. Nice interrupts me.

8 JUDGE ROBINSON: Do you want to say anything more on that issue?

9 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] That's precisely what I wanted to

10 say; that that these young people took up the space that was needed for

11 serious patients at the clinic and hospital centre, patients which needed

12 treatment, and they were listening to the music, walking around in the

13 corridors, and when cameras approached, the children would rush to the

14 beds and get in the beds, start moaning, and cover themselves with

15 blankets.

16 JUDGE ROBINSON: Thank you. Mr. Nice.

17 MR. NICE:

18 Q. Although most UN observers maybe at the time thought it was mass

19 hysteria, one UN toxicologist concluded that saranin or tabun was or may

20 have been present in blood samples from children, this being dealt with in

21 a book by Julie Mertus, called Kosovo, How Myths and Truths Started a

22 War. I'm not going to ask to produce it, I'm just identifying the source

23 of my question.

24 Do you accept that one toxicologist found those two substances

25 present?

1 A. I don't know about that, Mr. Nice. I don't know about that case.

2 But it is improbable that this could have happened in schools attended by

3 the Serb, Roma, Turkish, Albanian children and that this invisible gas

4 infected and poisoned only the Albanian children. This is absolutely

5 impossible. You're trying to prove the impossible thing.

6 Q. [Previous translation continues] ... tab 5.2, and I'm going to go

7 through these as quickly as I can until we reach the ones of substance.

8 MR. KAY: Tab 6 -- tab 6 hadn't been made an exhibit in the

9 Defence case. Might that be exhibited now?

10 JUDGE ROBINSON: Tab 6. That's what we just looked at.

11 MR. KAY: Yes.

12 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes.

13 MR. NICE: I come back now to tab 5.2, and we'll run through them,

14 I hope, sequentially, if people can remember the Djeneral Jankovic order.

15 Q. The -- were you present there when this was -- bit of film was

16 being taken? Yes or no.

17 A. You mean the case of poisoning?

18 Q. No, we're on to - sorry - tab 5.2, the Djeneral Jankovic border

19 crossing with Macedonia.

20 A. If this footage was recorded in Albanian, then I'm not sure

21 whether I was present. Perhaps I was.

22 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Mr. Robinson, if I can be of

23 assistance. Dr. Andric said that he maybe was present, whereas in this

24 text, in the English, you can see, "The mobile clinic of the Kosovo and

25 Metohija Red Cross, led by Dr. Vukasin Andric, was immediately among these

1 unfortunate people."

2 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I apologise. I did not have this

3 text in front of me in the Serbian language so I couldn't pinpoint to

4 which exactly Mr. Nice referred.

5 MR. NICE:

6 Q. You see, we've had evidence from Neil Wright of the UNHCR

7 detailing the hundreds of thousands of people moving through these borders

8 over the time that you're telling us about. What are you saying; that

9 there was only a trickle of people, or may you be wrong and may there have

10 been tens and hundreds of thousands of people moving through these

11 borders?

12 A. Mr. Nice, this was not something uttered by me. I did not say

13 that there were tens of thousands of people passing through. These were

14 the words uttered by the journalist in front of the cameras. There were

15 many more than that, and nobody challenges that fact. However, this is

16 not something that I uttered. This is -- this was the journalist's

17 statement.

18 Q. Very well.

19 A. And perhaps this was the case at the time when this footage was

20 record.

21 Q. Very well. Five --

22 JUDGE KWON: Let the witness have the index to his Defence exhibit

23 which describes briefly the content of the video, which will remind him of

24 the content.

25 MR. NICE:

1 Q. Now, the others --

2 JUDGE KWON: Yes. We were dealing with tab 5.2. Proceed,

3 Mr. Nice.

4 MR. NICE:

5 Q. You see, on tab 5.2 there is no identifiable person --

6 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Yes, yes. That's fine, Your Honour

7 Judge Kwon. I understood that.

8 MR. NICE:

9 Q. 5.2 there is no person identifiable by name. If we turn to 5.3,

10 the Vrbnica border crossing and remind ourselves that that was a

11 discussion between an Albanian man and a reporter. The Albanian man was

12 not identified by name, was he? So we can't approach this man.

13 A. Yes. It is not clear from this footage.

14 Q. Tab 5.4, the man --

15 A. We don't know the name of the man.

16 Q. Thank you. Tab 5.4, at the Djakovica Meja location. Again, a

17 woman and the man not identified by name so we can't track them down.

18 Correct?

19 A. It is very easy to find them, Mr. Nice, if they're alive, because

20 we have their image and we have the statements given by them at the time.

21 Q. Did you, in preparation for giving this evidence on behalf of this

22 accused, make any attempt to find any of these people so that we could

23 know who they were?

24 A. I think that they can be traced. I don't know why that would be

25 so important, and is it really important what is the name of somebody and

1 what statement that person gave? It seems that the name of the person is

2 given more importance than the statement, and I think that it should be

3 the other way round.

4 Q. Very well.

5 A. It probably doesn't suit you what this person had stated.

6 Q. I have no reaction to what the person states. My concern at the

7 moment on behalf of this Prosecution is to see whether we can identify

8 them.

9 5.7, please. Dealing with an Albanian who was hit in the column.

10 Again, not somebody who can be identified. Do you accept that?

11 A. Just what I said previously, the same comment would apply here as

12 well.

13 Q. The same applies, does it, to 5.8. Then we come -- 5.8.

14 A. I don't understand what you're trying to prove, Mr. Nice. Are you

15 trying to prove that these people didn't exist, that I made them up?

16 These people do exist, and we know roughly from which village they are.

17 They are from the Djakovica area.

18 Q. [Previous translation continues] ...

19 A. Footage exists. These people can be traced.

20 Q. [Previous translation continues] ...

21 A. However, it doesn't suit you, does it?

22 Q. I'm sure that if it's appropriate for you to make observations

23 like that you'll continue to do so, but I'd invite you, please, to answer

24 my questions.

25 Now, if you look at 5.9, we find something different. Please tell

1 us on what basis you're presenting these statements to the Court. Did you

2 speak to these people yourself?

3 A. These statements. Well, these statements were taken in an

4 official procedure at the Prizren court, and they were taken by

5 investigative Judges Nijaz Avdija and Branislav Sovtic. These statements

6 are official documents of the MUP. You're not about to say that these

7 people do not exist either, because their identities are very clearly

8 stated here.

9 Q. Thank you. Feel free to make comments of that kind, but I'd like

10 you to answer the question.

11 JUDGE ROBINSON: Professor, you say that the persons who took

12 these statements are investigative judges. Is that indicated in the

13 statements?

14 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] It is stated here that the statement

15 was taken by Branislav Sovtic and Nijaz Avdija.

16 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes, but their capacity --

17 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I didn't understand you. These

18 statements were taken in the premises of the medical centre in Prizren.

19 MR. NICE:

20 Q. Precisely. Now, let's see a little bit more, with Their Honour's

21 leave, if we may. If we look at the first one, Syla Labinot, born on the

22 25th of January, 1984.

23 JUDGE ROBINSON: Mr. Nice, just let him clarify --

24 MR. NICE: Sorry, Your Honour, if I jumped in.

25 JUDGE ROBINSON: He had said that the persons who took these

1 statements were investigative judges, and I asked him, where is that

2 indicated? It's not indicated in the statements beneath their names or

3 anywhere else. I just want to have that clarified.

4 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I suppose, Mr. Nice, that only

5 investigative judges can take statements. No one else could. You don't

6 assume that we would offer a document to you, a statement taken by

7 somebody else and not an investigative judge. So this was done by an

8 official organ, an investigative judge belonging to the court in Prizren.

9 MR. NICE:

10 Q. You see, you brought this document along, Dr. Andric. You're now

11 inviting us to make assumptions about who the questioners are. You

12 haven't seen the individuals yourself. Just what do you really know about

13 these statements? Where did you get them? Who gave them to you?

14 A. These statements were official statements taken by the MUP

15 representatives, and they were published in the book Children Accuse.

16 Therefore, these statements were documented and published in that book

17 Children Accuse, which was published also in English.

18 Q. I'm going to ask you to consider what this same person, who is

19 identifiable and therefore has been seen, Syla Labinot, said last week

20 because I want to know if you're in any position to counter this

21 alternative record.

22 MR. NICE: With Your Honours' leave, may the statement taken last

23 week be laid on the overhead projector. It's only in English in light of

24 the brevity of time.

25 Q. And last week -- do you understand this, Dr. Andric? This boy,

1 now, of course, a little elder, explains that he reads and speaks the

2 Albanian language -- next page, please, Mr. Prendergast. The next

3 paragraph but one says he's been informed that the document is a statement

4 he made to Mr. Sovtic at the Prizren medical centre. He confirms being

5 present at the centre, recalls seeing journalists and other people

6 speaking Serbian and Albanian and some speaking French. He didn't leave

7 his father's side and his recollection is that his father, who speaks

8 Serbian, is the person who conducted the interview.

9 He then describes the injury to his leg where he suffered as a

10 result of a bomb dropped from an aeroplane a few kilometres outside

11 Prizren. And then he says this - further up the page please,

12 Mr. Prendergast: "Concerning the information within the statement, I have

13 been asked why I left the village in April 1999. I can recall that at the

14 beginning of April 1999, in the early morning, at about 0500 hours, our

15 home was visited by Serbian military forces who told us we had two hours

16 to leave the village. We informed our neighbours of this and we packed

17 our bags with clothes and food and headed for the main road. Once there,

18 we saw many other people from Molic and other villages ..." He then goes

19 on to deal with the next movements, to Dobros where the incident where he

20 was injured happened.

21 And then if we turn over the page, please, Mr. Prendergast, he

22 says this: "Although I recall Molic being shelled in late 1998, up until

23 the day I left the village in April 1999, I did not see or hear of any

24 explosions in the village that year. I can definitely state that I know

25 of no person that left the village of Molic as a result of the NATO

1 airstrikes... I certainly didn't leave Molic because of the NATO

2 airstrikes, I left because my family and I were ordered to do so by

3 Serbian soldiers."

4 You're in no position to deny the accuracy of that account, are

5 you?

6 A. Mr. Nice, in my evidence -- during my evidence, I showed,

7 presented documents which were created at the relevant sites at the

8 relevant time. Therefore, these are truthful documents. You are denying

9 that, and you have gathered your own documents --

10 Q. Pausing there for a minute. You're asserting, are you, that

11 because they were created at the relevant sites and times they are

12 truthful? Have you taken into account the fact that these were people who

13 -- please listen to me. Have you taken into account the fact that these

14 were people who may have been in fear of being killed or expelled by Serb

15 or police -- Serb military or police forces when they were asked these

16 questions? Have you taken that into account?

17 A. One of these two things is true; either what I'm saying or what

18 you're saying. And is it also possible that the statements they gave now

19 were given under pressure? You could have obtained thousands of such

20 statements, hundreds of thousands. I can guarantee you that.

21 Q. Dr. Andric, please be careful. If in your answer you want to make

22 allegations of a certain kind, feel free to do so. The investigator is

23 here.

24 Can we look at the top of the statement you have produced, the

25 first two lines. Shall we put it on the overhead projector, please.

1 That's tab 5.9. What this witness, this then 15-year-old witness said,

2 was: "At about 1200 hours on the 14th of April, 1999, we set off with

3 locals from the surrounding villages and my father to the People's

4 Republic of Albania by tractor because we were afraid of the NATO

5 bombing."

6 Shall we now look at the next statement, please, which is also in

7 5.9 but is the statement of Zoje Quni. Next page, probably. Let's see

8 how that begins. Zoje Quni's statement begins: "At about 0800 hours on

9 14 April 1999 we and other villagers panicked because of NATO bombing. We

10 set off to the People's Republic of Albania by tractor because that was

11 what the villagers had decided ..." We see that the statement was taken

12 in the same medical centre in Prizren and by the same Avdija Nijaz and

13 Branislav Sovtic. I would now like you, please, to consider and to, with

14 the Court's leave, have displayed on the overhead projector, a statement

15 taken last week from Zoje Quni.

16 While that's being displayed we should see that Zoje Quni or Quni

17 is described in the statement part of 5.9 under line 3 as a housewife,

18 unable, presumably, to read or write; illiterate. We'll now see what was

19 said last week. We can nevertheless see that there is a signature on the

20 left-hand side of the original version of this document consistent with

21 the name of the person concerned.

22 If Mr. Prendergast would take us to the second sheet of the

23 document where we have the text. She explains how she was shown, on the

24 25th of February, a document, this document.

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1 recalls signing it. She says this: "The date that is shown on the

2 document is probably correct, but all I can remember about it being

3 written is that I was asked to sign it as it was -- as it was to be shown

4 to people abroad who were going to help me."

5 She then goes on in the next paragraph to say the following: "At

6 the beginning of April 1999, the exact date I do not recall ... Serbian

7 forces (and I don't know if they were police or military) came to my house

8 and told the family that we should leave the village of Molic. They had

9 weapons with them as they made these demands and while they did not make

10 any direct threats, they insisted that they did not want to see anybody

11 left in the village. My family and I did not even take time to gather any

12 possessions. We ensured everyone was present and we left our compound, on

13 foot, heading towards the main road." And then she deals with the

14 movements to Dobrosh, she deals with looking back to see the village of

15 Molic in flames, with staying in Dobrosh for two weeks, with hearing the

16 sound of an explosion, and indeed with the consequence of the explosion.

17 Next page, please, Mr. Prendergast. With her losing

18 consciousness, regaining consciousness in the hospital, and then she says

19 this: "I returned to Kosovo, together with my family, in June or July of

20 1999, but certainly following NATO's entry ..."

21 JUDGE ROBINSON: Mr. Nice, you're coming to a question now?

22 MR. NICE: Yes, I am.

23 Q. "We went to Molic where we saw that our house, with other houses,

24 had been destroyed by fire." And she concludes, "I'm informed that my

25 statement states I left the village because the villagers were panicked by

1 NATO bombing. I can say that I did not leave Molic for this reason: I

2 left because I was ordered to do so by what I understood to be Serbian

3 armed forces. Additionally, all persons I spoke to at the time and

4 subsequently left the village for the same reasons ..."

5 There is no reason, is there, to doubt the accuracy of what that

6 woman says?

7 A. This is your claim, Mr. Nice. You don't have to doubt these

8 words. However, I do doubt them. For me, the only truthful statement is

9 the one taken by official authorities.

10 Q. Your --

11 JUDGE KWON: Mr. Nice, did we establish that two persons are the

12 same person? In tab 5.9, it says the birth year of the witness of

13 Ms. Quni is 1954, and this statements says it's 1952, and I recognise some

14 difference between the signature. The last letter of the last name is

15 written as "I" in this witness statement, while in tab 5.9 it says "J".

16 Whether you can clarify that.

17 MR. NICE: I can't clarify that myself but Your Honour will see

18 that in the third or fourth paragraph of the statement, she says, "I

19 recognise the signature as being mine" when shown the document and recalls

20 signing it. You will recollect that she was described at the time as

21 being illiterate, although she explains that -- further up. She says

22 nothing, I think, about her ability to read and write but she recognises

23 the signature.

24 The name is given two alternative spellings in the original. At

25 least in the English, Quni or Cuni, and the name given by the witness is

1 one of those two names. And of course, as the Chamber will be aware,

2 alternative spellings are common place in Kosovo for its Albanian

3 population.

4 Your Honour, I think that's probably as far as I can go. These

5 are also very small communities where people come from.

6 Q. If we go on with the exhibits of this witness, we went through

7 5.10, 5.11 which I needn't deal with, and we come to 5.12. Now, 5.12 I'd

8 like to focus on, please. This was the long video clip, and in this one

9 it starts with Selim Guxhufi reading out from a map place locations to a

10 very large crowd. The map, incidentally, I think is in Cyrillic, not in

11 another language.

12 Were you present at this meeting or are you dependent entirely on

13 the video clip?

14 A. I think I was present.

15 Q. It's right, isn't it --

16 A. Mr. Nice, this footage was composed of several segments. You're

17 asking me about it now and I can't be sure right now whether I was present

18 or not. Most likely I was present. I mostly attended those meetings and

19 went out in the field and attended various gatherings there.

20 Q. There were --

21 A. However, I'm not 100 per cent sure, because perhaps I was present

22 there when this particular footage was recorded, but I could have gone

23 further, some 15 kilometres away, and I was generally in that area but not

24 always present when interviews were conducted and they talked to these

25 people.

1 Q. Now, to remind the Chamber and to deal with it as swiftly as I

2 can, a number of people are then seen to be interviewed, men in berets,

3 men in leather hats and so on, and then on page 5 of the English, we come

4 to the first identifiable person, the Albanian lawyer Rexhep Fusha.

5 MR. NICE: Your Honours, this was an interview that was taken a

6 little earlier last week and is one that is on video. If the Chamber is

7 content to look at it it will remember the discussion it had including

8 with the accused last week, that the lawyer has been spoken on video and I

9 am in a position to play that if the Chamber would allow me, or part of

10 it.

11 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes.

12 MR. NICE: Thank you. And Your Honours have this in a binder of

13 documents, the binder that was prepared for possible pre-reading, and it's

14 at tab 39 in that binder.

15 [Videotape played]

16 "On the 28th of March about 5.00 in the morning, not just us but

17 all the people living in the buildings in our area, we went out. We were

18 ordered to. And we -- we went behind our buildings, and we walked along

19 -- along the river Llap for 5 or 600 metres. We walked then by the -- we

20 walked by the fifth -- by the five bus stations in the city on the left

21 side of the road, and we went in the direction of the village Ballovce and

22 the village of Shekovce."

23 MR. NICE:

24 Q. Pausing there for a minute. Do you recognise that man as the same

25 man shown in the film that you presented to this Court?

1 A. Well, the footage wasn't quite clear.

2 MR. NICE: If Your Honours would just give me a minute. I've

3 mislaid one piece of paper.

4 The Court will be able to see that the -- from the version it has

5 that the clips have been extracted from a longer interview.

6 Can we move to the next clip, please.

7 [Videotape played]

8 "Around 75.000 or maybe more, they tried to leave for Pristina on

9 the Saturday, it was the 15th or the 16th 1999. We started from the

10 village of Koliq, going in the direction of Pristina. It was not -- it

11 was not just the convoy that -- our convoy that left Turiqice. There were

12 also convoys from other villages. From Koliqe, Dyze, Batllave, Sharban

13 and some other villages and people from some other villages of the

14 Pristina area who joined our convoy. That convoy spent the night on the

15 road because no one let us go to Pristina or going other direction who

16 lived there. And the next day at 10.00 the first convoy was let through

17 in the direction of the Pristina. It was Monday."

18 MR. NICE:

19 Q. Now, pausing there, and thinking about this lawyer, were you

20 present when he was interviewed?

21 A. No. But judging by this clip, what we just saw here, the

22 individual that I can see and the person shown on the other footage is not

23 one and the same, to my mind. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't think it is.

24 Q. I'm now going to -- we're going to move on to the next --

25 A. I'm sorry, but this person doesn't look like the other one.

1 Q. Well, we'll get an extract from the previous tape of the accused

2 in a minute but I'm now going to ask you to consider what he says about

3 the circumstances in which this interview was taken, the earlier

4 interview. Please.

5 [Videotape played]

6 "My clothes --"

7 JUDGE ROBINSON: Mr. Nice, the witness has already said that they

8 don't appear to be the same person. Is this going to take us any further?

9 MR. NICE: Well, Your Honour, with respect, it will. This is --

10 first of all, the Chamber will be able to consider the visual image of

11 this man beside the visual image of the man in the accused's tape.

12 Secondly, the identity of this man is given, and we know that the identity

13 of the man was given at the end of the tape produced by the accused

14 because he pulled out his identity cards. There is no doubt, in our

15 submission, that this is exactly the same man, and we -- the Court will be

16 able to be satisfied of that. And having the other tape or an extract

17 from it produced, but I'd ask the Chamber to see through to the end this

18 passage which deals with the circumstances of the taking of the statement

19 at the time, and then we consider again the issue of identification.

20 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes. Okay. Very well.

21 MR. NICE: Thank you.

22 [Videotape played]

23 "... clothes on my body for nearly a month, for example. That's

24 the only thing I could think of. We had no food because we left literally

25 with our hands in our pockets. We -- we tried to get -- to get by

1 whichever way we could, whoever had some food.

2 "Not in the area where we were. There weren't any. They

3 attacked only the tanks and the Pragas of the Yugoslav army. And -- with

4 the Yugoslavia army as well. There were three different groups:

5 Paramilitaries, Arkan's, Seselj's, and the Red Berets."

6 MR. NICE: Next one, yes. Press on.

7 [Videotape played]

8 "All the people to whom I have spoken with and the people who I

9 met, they all left for the very same reasons. They'd come under pressure

10 and under attack from the army and the paramilitaries. That was the

11 cleansing operation."

12 "They didn't ask about our experience in the Podujevo area. They

13 were civilians. We didn't know what they were. We found out afterwards

14 they were journalists. We thought they were inspectors of some kind in

15 the beginning and they didn't ask about our experience. They didn't

16 introduce themselves as journalists. We thought that they were SUP

17 inspectors and we thought that they had come there to rob the people, and

18 we thought that that woman was with them so she could search our women and

19 take our gold."

20 "So she was a female --"

21 "That woman started afterwards, she started asking us questions,

22 asking where are you coming from, where are you going, and I told her

23 everything. And pushed us out of our house, not just me but everybody

24 there. And during the time the interview took place we were surrounded by

25 paramilitaries."

1 "Right ..."

2 "After the interview took place, it was just our tractor there and

3 there were 28 people in it, which 14 were children maybe of 10 years or

4 less. The paramilitaries were behind the tractor, behind the tractor when

5 the camera was filming. And they were cursing us non-stop. And during

6 the conversation we had I told the reality as it was there. And one of

7 the questions that was asked of me, How will the situation get better?

8 And I told them that to get the situation better everyone should have

9 equal rights, be it Albanians, Serbs, Macedonians, Romas, whatever. I saw

10 that tape only two months afterwards and the title of it was 'Albanians

11 are leaving because of NATO bombardment' but that's not how it was. The

12 truth was that we all left because we came under attack from the

13 paramilitaries and the Yugoslav army. And I told them that there will be

14 no democracy -- and this is in the tape but they haven't shown that. I

15 told them there will be no democracy until my son has equal rights to the

16 head of the Executive Council of the -- the Serbo-Slav Executive Council,

17 but they haven't shown that."

18 MR. NICE:

19 Q. Pausing there. Is his account of the interview happening with

20 paramilitaries behind the camera and out of view one that could be true?

21 A. That is an absolute lie.

22 Q. Is it? Why do you say that, please?

23 A. There were no paramilitaries at all. Yes, I can say that because

24 there was no paramilitary there on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija at

25 all. Some Seselj's men are being mentioned here and I should like to ask

1 the Trial Chamber to allow me to elaborate and to tell you everything that

2 was taken down on this footage because this testimony will not be truthful

3 unless I'm allowed to say everything I think about this particular footage

4 and the interview that was conducted and made subsequently. Thank you

5 very much.

6 JUDGE ROBINSON: But try to be as brief as possible.

7 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I'll try. I'll do my best, but

8 please give me the time to say this because these are essential points for

9 my entire testimony and for everything that is being discussed here now.

10 The Albanian lawyer -- first of all, let me tell you that I don't

11 think that is the man. I doubt that this is the man that the interview

12 was taken from because it doesn't appear to be the same man that was

13 interviewed at the time. That's the first point.

14 Secondly, the Albanian Rexhep Fusha, the lawyer, and I wasn't

15 present when the statement was taken from him, but without any presence,

16 any police presence, he made a statement to the television station. So

17 these -- it is -- they're pure lies that the police were present and the

18 paramilitaries were present. Those are all lies. He said, in a very

19 relaxed way, he said everything he wanted to say. He said that they had

20 gone to Sajkovac to take -- and when he was asked whether he was afraid of

21 NATO bombing, he said, Yes because everybody, every normal person would be

22 afraid of the bombing. Then the next question was, Have you ever had any

23 problems with the police? He said no, I'm a lawyer never had any problems

24 with the police, et cetera, never, never. And let me say I understand

25 Mr. Fusha. Mr. Fusha has problems with his compatriots today because on

1 the basis of what I presented here, he is going -- there are going to be

2 terrible repercussions and problems that he's going to have with his

3 neighbours and with all the others. Why he made the statement, a

4 statement of that kind in the first place, why he said what he said. But

5 he's quite obviously lawyer, you can see that, and by giving this

6 statement he is trying to save his own head, save his life.

7 Let me tell you what he said. He said they attacked, just the

8 tanks, et cetera. Then he mentioned Seselj's men and two other

9 paramilitary formations, two other paramilitary units. Let me tell you

10 here and now there were no paramilitaries on the territory of Kosovo and

11 Metohija throughout the war. No paramilitary formations at all. There

12 were Seselj's men, as he said, and under pressure he gave -- under duress

13 he gave this statement. Then further on he was asked by the president of

14 the Executive Council of Podujevo to leave his flat and to take refuge

15 temporarily. He was not told to flee to Albania or Macedonia but just to

16 take refuge for a time because there was fighting going on in Podujevo

17 between the KLA members and the regular forces of the army and police. So

18 this was well-intentioned. He told him to take refuge and the man did

19 take refuge and then came back afterwards and gave the interview to the

20 television station that was there at the time.

21 JUDGE ROBINSON: Very well. You must be coming to an end now.

22 I've allowed you to offer the explanation.

23 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Just a few more sentences, please,

24 I'll be very brief.

25 Just imagine this: When he says -- when -- when a lawyer isn't

1 clear when he's being interviewed by someone from the SUP or journalists,

2 he said they didn't introduce themselves as journalists. Then when it

3 came to the woman, they thought the woman was from the SUP and that she

4 had come to take some gold from some other women. This is all construed.

5 It's all manufactured and sham. I don't think I need comment it's so

6 outrageous. So during the interview we were surrounded by paramilitaries.

7 That's what he says. Well, that really -- I mean, paramilitaries. A

8 paramilitary force that doesn't exist. There were no -- not only -- we

9 didn't have any regular units there or policemen there. He was very

10 relaxed and able to make his statement in that relaxed fashion.

11 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes, Mr. Nice.

12 MR. NICE:

13 Q. We're going to look at the rest of his recent statement in a

14 second, but just a couple of things. He says that this footage was

15 broadcast a few weeks later. Is he right about that?

16 A. That's not at all true. That footage, if it was filmed when it

17 was filmed, that's when it was broadcast. Why would we wait to broadcast

18 it? I really don't know. I'm not a director or producer on television

19 but I don't see why there should be a delay in broadcasting it. It might

20 have been broadcast and shown as an example of goodwill, as an example of

21 the care and attention given to people who were displaced.

22 Q. He says it had been already cut to exclude his if not defiant at

23 least bold reference to the rights of his son being matched to those of

24 Serbo-Slav Bizercic. What do you say to his observation about that, for

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1 A. I really don't know but I think that his interview was shown from

2 beginning to end in what the footage we showed. I don't think there were

3 any interruptions, and this can be easily proved.

4 So from the start, as the statement was taken, from beginning to

5 end, we showed it all. He says thank you at the end, and at the end he

6 says, "I am Rexhep Fusha from Podujevo, lawyer," and so on. So he says

7 exactly who he is, so this is not any kind of montage or manufactured

8 tape.

9 Q. If it was shown at the time or a few weeks later, he's got nothing

10 to fear, has he, from what happens in this trial because it's already been

11 broadcast once. So that observation of yours, perhaps you'd like to

12 reconsider that.

13 A. Yes, but Mr. Nice, many who should have seen it did not perhaps

14 see it, so he knew that he wouldn't have any problems, but quite obviously

15 he's concerned about his fate. That is quite obvious. He's telling us

16 all kinds of things. Things he should say, he shouldn't say. He mentions

17 paramilitaries, he mentions the seizing of gold, he says that he doesn't

18 know whether they're journalists, but all this is a ridiculous, ludicrous.

19 Q. And are you still sticking to the account that it's one man

20 running to the defence of somebody else shown on the film or do you accept

21 that it's actually the same man?

22 A. The film you just showed today, you mean?

23 Q. Mmm.

24 A. On the basis of what I saw here, I cannot claim that it is one and

25 the same person. The face seems to be quite different. It is possible,

1 but I can't say. I can't say that they are the same people.

2 Q. We're going to move just to see the last things he says about the

3 preparation of this interview, but the way you've been dismissal of him

4 reminds me to ask you a question about how you were --

5 A. I'm not being dismissive about him, Mr. Nice, I have no reason to

6 be. Nor am I dismissive about anyone in this world.

7 Q. You had a passage from the indictment read out where it was

8 suggested that there had been sexual assaults by Serbs on Albanians, and

9 you said you really didn't need even to deal with it. You can the find

10 exact words in a second, but you didn't even deign to comment on the

11 suggestion that there might have been sexual assaults. Just while I

12 remember it, explain why you took that position, as a doctor.

13 A. I took that position because I don't know about a single case of

14 that kind.

15 Q. But, Dr. Andric, in your position you must know that the

16 international humanitarian agencies have reported on rape as a means of

17 ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and that they've also explained how the culture

18 of Kosovar Albanian women makes the reporting of rape very difficult. You

19 know those two facts, don't you?

20 A. Oh, come on, Mr. Nice. No, I don't know that.

21 Q. You see, the disdain --

22 A. It's impossible, Mr. Nice. Come on. Please don't. It's

23 propaganda, propaganda. And for each case you need to have a name, a

24 surname, when, where. I really don't know of a single case nor have I

25 heard of a single case, especially not what you're saying, in the aim of

1 ethnic cleansing, as a form of ethnic cleansing, that rape was done.

2 That's quite impossible. Unbelievable.

3 Q. [Previous translation continues] ...

4 A. They're ready to say anything you like.

5 Q. They are ready to say -- who do you mean by "they," Dr. Andric?

6 Just help me. Or would you like me to help you?

7 A. The peak of the separatist movement and the separatists their

8 leaders, and those who have worked for decades doing in Kosovo what they

9 were doing with the ultimate goal being an independent Kosovo, an

10 independent Kosovo, let me repeat, and a secession and breaking away from

11 Serbia and Yugoslavia and --

12 Q. Dr. Andric, you're a doctor and you've told us about the

13 Hippocratic oath. Now, you tell me this: Are you saying that all the

14 women who've reported to the humanitarian organisations and any women who

15 may have given evidence before this Chamber on the question of rape and

16 sexual assault and any of these women who lie behind the revealed evidence

17 of women thrown down wells and raped or sexually interfered with, are you

18 saying that each and every one of them was a Kosovo Albanian extremist

19 doing and suffering what they did for that cause? Are you?

20 A. No, Mr. Nice. You're trying to put words into my mouth, things

21 that I never said nor are true nor did I ever think of them. I'm -- I

22 don't know of a single case of that kind, and I don't believe and I don't

23 think it is correct that it was done in the aim of ethnic cleansing.

24 Those are pure lies.

25 Q. Just to remind --

1 A. And if there were individual cases of that kind, well, you can

2 have rape in peacetime. There are rapes every day somewhere. But I don't

3 know of a single case and I claim nothing like that was ever done with the

4 purpose of ethnic cleansing as you claimed. Those are pure lies.

5 JUDGE ROBINSON: That's the point I wanted to clarify with you.

6 You're not saying that rapes didn't take place, but not as a part of a

7 policy of ethnic cleansing. They were just criminal acts.

8 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Your Honour Judge Robinson, let me

9 repeat, and I want to be quite clear: I don't know of a single such case,

10 but I claim that even if there were individual cases that they were things

11 that had nothing to do with the official policy or official position of

12 the state or any kind of ethnic cleansing whatsoever. I don't know what

13 you mean by claiming that it might be ethnic cleansing.

14 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes, Mr. Nice.

15 MR. NICE:

16 Q. You see, Dr. Andric, the way you disposed of this when the accused

17 asked you questions and when he read out a passage alleging that women had

18 suffered rape, you said -- and sexual assault, you said: "As for sexual

19 assaults, I think I need not waste my breath even to comment on this."

20 Is that really the approach of a medical doctor dealing with the

21 suffering of women, or is that the approach of someone who is an apologist

22 for this accused, which is what I'm suggesting you are.

23 JUDGE ROBINSON: Well, Mr. Nice, that's more in the form of a

24 comment. Ask another question.

25 MR. NICE: Very well.

1 Q. Let's return then, if we may, to the evidence of this interview.

2 Ms. Dicklich is helping locate the original image but we'll continue with

3 the interview that was had with this witness -- with this lawyer last

4 week.

5 [Videotape played]

6 "When someone showed me the tape -- I didn't get it, it was two

7 months afterward and I saw my picture in there and the last sentence was

8 that the situation should be -- a solution should be found in a democratic

9 way. I found out about it about two months later. I didn't know

10 anything. I didn't know that the media had any recordings of the

11 interview. Interview did not take place in -- in an office but on the

12 road when we were surrounded and in the presence of the paramilitaries,

13 the army. We were all surrounded there. If the interview had been

14 conducted in the same conditions as I'm doing this now, the conversation

15 would have been very different. But when you have a machine-gun pointed

16 at you, on your back, you can talk differently. It is -- it is the -- it

17 could be that -- it is not true that the NATO bombed us, at least not in

18 the Lab area, not in our area -- they could have done it somewhere else

19 but in our area it never happened. Maybe they bombed the convoy once in

20 awhile but it was Yugoslav army mostly who put them on the road.

21 "There isn't a single house, a single building that is in the

22 villages or in the town of Podujevo that has been bombed by NATO. And the

23 only thing that NATO bombed on the 24th was the airport of Dumorsh, in the

24 airport, the military airport. They didn't hit -- the NATO -- the NATO

25 did not hit civilians. It was mostly the Yugoslav army and the

1 paramilitaries with tanks, Pragas and different weaponry."

2 "Okay."

3 MR. NICE:

4 Q. I see something was amusing you, Dr. Andric. Please give us your

5 comments on that last passage.

6 A. Yes, I can, certainly. I should like to tell the distinguished

7 Trial Chamber that we are attending the defence of sorts of the gentleman

8 who is the lawyer. So all this is saving his own skin. It's to that

9 purpose. And also with respect to when he said that NATO didn't bomb

10 anything in our parts and then he said he bombed the airport of Dumorsh,

11 it's the Dumorsh village, near Podujevo, and that airport was bombed all

12 the time, and he says himself and admits himself that the airport was

13 bombed on the 24th. But you can see that he keeps infiltrating this with

14 the term "paramilitaries." And it was a bombing of this airport that led

15 to the exodus of the families leaving the village and leaving those areas

16 to take refuge, to get away from an area where there was bombing around

17 the clock. But quite obviously this lawyer is having problems with his

18 own people, his neighbours, his compatriots, and that he wants to justify

19 himself and he doesn't mind what means he uses to do that.

20 So it's not that I'm amused, Mr. Nice. It's not amusing. It's

21 very serious, Mr. Nice.

22 Q. You realise, Dr. Andric, that from the material you provided, and

23 we had a week to look at it, we went and saw whoever we could identify.

24 We haven't been selective. We just laid out the people we saw. Let's

25 have a look at the original picture. It's on the screen now.

1 JUDGE ROBINSON: Mr. Nice, if you're going to go beyond the break,

2 you would be then in excess of the two-thirds time. I'm reluctant to

3 press you on time. We are losing time and the pace of the trial is

4 exceedingly slow.

5 MR. NICE: Your Honour, the problem - I hoped to finish within an

6 hour this morning, and there's a lot of material, and I haven't yet dealt

7 with the role of the provisional Executive Council, which was the material

8 that was going to be served in advance.

9 I should also tell Your Honour that in relation to a later tab of

10 this witness's material, there are three witness statements again counter

11 to the inference that he and this accused has drawn from the material.

12 Can I review the position over the break and see what I can cut?

13 I certainly don't want to go over two-thirds. I want to keep it to 50 per

14 cent where possible.

15 JUDGE BONOMY: Mr. Nice, bearing that in mind, it seems to me to

16 have been quite unnecessary to go through the whole of the statement of

17 the witness. It would have been ample to identify the crucial

18 discrepancies, the crucial inconsistencies and we would have saved a great

19 deal of time. It's just not open to us to explore the whole of a

20 statement when there are others in the wings yet to be dealt with.

21 MR. NICE: It's very -- Your Honour, I understand that, and it's

22 very difficult for -- it's very difficult to present this material.

23 Can we look at the original picture just to deal with the question

24 of identity because I think that's now on your screens, coming as an

25 extract from 5.12. That's the original picture. I don't know if

1 Ms. Dicklich can now display the picture of the man in the interview room.

2 There it is.

3 He's given the same name. He's acknowledged himself.

4 Q. Do you accept it's the same person?

5 JUDGE ROBINSON: Okay. Well, we have seen it.

6 MR. NICE:

7 Q. From the witness: Do you accept that it's the same person?

8 A. I don't think -- I still don't think it's the same person. But

9 even if it is the same, I don't think it changes matters. I think we have

10 clarified the point and that I have said what I have to say.

11 JUDGE ROBINSON: It's a little difficult to assess, Mr. Nice. One

12 is a frontal view and the other is a side view.

13 MR. NICE: Yes. We also have the material on the --

14 JUDGE ROBINSON: We have to take the break, and Mr. Nice, you

15 should endeavour to bring the cross-examination to a close.

16 MR. NICE: What I think I will do, if I may, is identify the

17 topics I would have covered, seek to produce for you -- can I hand to you,

18 please, perhaps for pre-reading. I know the witness won't be able to do

19 so, but the three other statements. They're not very long, and they

20 relate to tab 11, the doctor specialist from the Djakovica city hospital.

21 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes. Those may be handed over to the witness.

22 MR. NICE: I'll be able to deal with it that much more quickly and

23 I'll try to deal with my propositions about the provisional Executive

24 Council in just a few minutes, and I think in that way I'll try not to

25 break the two-thirds provision.

1 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes. We will adjourn now for 20 minutes. The

2 legal officer to see us in the Chamber.

3 --- Recess taken at 10.32 a.m.

4 --- On resuming at 11.00 a.m.

5 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes, Mr. Nice.

6 MR. NICE: I can be very brief.

7 JUDGE ROBINSON: Yes.

8 MR. NICE:

9 Q. As to tab 11, doctors staying in Djakovica, I needn't trouble you

10 with the witness statements produced from the first three spoken to, but

11 help me with this: It's the case, is it not, that doctors in Djakovica,

12 sometimes with their families, stayed in the hospital on their own

13 initiative, not because they were encouraged to do so by the people in

14 charge?

15 JUDGE ROBINSON: Did you hear the question?

16 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I did not understand the question.

17 MR. NICE:

18 Q. The doctors in Djakovica stayed in the hospital, sometimes with

19 their families, on their own initiative, not because they were encouraged

20 to do so by the people in charge.

21 A. Which period are you referring to, Mr. Nice?

22 Q. 1999.

23 A. Which period; the beginning of 1999, the beginning of NATO

24 bombing?

25 Q. [Previous translation continues] ... your tab 11.

1 A. The doctors in Djakovica remained working in the health centre and

2 in the hospital voluntarily. I mean, Albanians and everybody else.

3 Q. Next point -- next point is this: The TEC -- Your Honours, can I

4 just identify -- no, one other point before I get there.

5 The man Svend Robinson of whom you spoke, the Canadian

6 parliamentarian, the only visitor to Kosovo in the relevant period from

7 the international community -- and, Your Honours, tab 30 refers if you

8 want to find it -- was extremely hostile to the NATO campaign which he

9 described as a military, political, environmental, and humanitarian

10 disaster. Despite that and following his visit to you, he concluded, page

11 4, I think -- page 3 of 5, foot of the page, he concluded that many

12 villages had been ethnically cleansed of Kosovo Albanians.

13 Can you explain what it was that he saw that could have led to the

14 conclusion that the villages had been ethnically cleansed?

15 A. I don't know what kind of statement Mr. Robinson gave after

16 leaving Kosovo. All I can say is I received him in mid-May 1999. I

17 received him at the border crossing of Merberan [phoen]. I know for a

18 fact that he did not hide his amazement upon his arrival in Kosovo, and

19 when he saw --

20 Q. [Previous translation continues] ... saw villages close to --

21 A. I was just about to say, Mr. Nice, about the villages, but you're

22 not letting me. You're not letting me speak.

23 So when we entered from central Serbia the territory of Kosovo and

24 Metohija, Mr. Robinson publicly stated his amazement at what he saw,

25 because he had expected to see scorched earth. Instead, he saw houses

1 standing, and among thousands of houses there would be only two or three

2 that were destroyed or damaged. And when he entered Kosovo Albanian

3 villages --

4 Q. [Previous translation continues] ...

5 JUDGE BONOMY: Dr. --

6 MR. NICE: I'm so sorry.

7 JUDGE BONOMY: -- could you actually try to answer the question,

8 please.

9 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Your Honour Judge Bonomy, I am

10 willing to answer but Mr. Nice is not letting me. I cannot answer in one

11 sentence. I want to tell you what MP Robinson saw and how he reacted to

12 what he saw.

13 JUDGE BONOMY: The question is very simple. Can you explain what

14 it was that he saw that could possibly have led to the conclusion that the

15 villages were ethnically cleansed? Was there anything in --

16 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] No.

17 JUDGE BONOMY: [Previous translation continues] ... wasn't it?

18 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] What he saw on the tour he made when

19 I accompanied him - and he chose himself where he would go - on the basis

20 of that, he couldn't make that conclusion.

21 MR. NICE:

22 Q. My last question on Mr. Robinson. You see, this man could not be

23 more hostile to the NATO campaign, publicly and in extreme terms, and I

24 want to know if you can point to anything that you know about Mr. Robinson

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1 cleansing. Why should he get it wrong? Can you point to anything?

2 JUDGE KWON: Was the witness shown the passage?

3 MR. NICE: No, Your Honour.

4 JUDGE KWON: It's very difficult for the witness to comment.

5 MR. NICE: I accept. It's the time problem.

6 Q. You see, what he said was this, and I'll read it out to you

7 slowly: "Driving into Kosovo --" it's foot of page 3 to 5 -- "from

8 Belgrade and then from Pristina to the Macedonian border was a terrible

9 experience. Village after village was totally empty of any life, with

10 houses burned and roofs destroyed. They were like ghost towns. While the

11 Serb officials blamed this all on the KLA or NATO bombing, it was clear

12 that many of the villages had been 'ethnically cleansed' of Kosovar

13 Albanians who had fled to neighbouring countries or into the mountains."

14 That's what he said, you see, Mr. -- Dr. Andric. And you can't

15 explain how he reached that conclusion?

16 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I would appreciate it very much if

17 the Trial Chamber would allow me to answer without being interrupted by

18 Mr. Nice, if you want a real answer.

19 JUDGE ROBINSON: You will answer. You will answer. Mr. Nice will

20 not interrupt.

21 MR. NICE: I won't interrupt.

22 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Mr. Robinson arrived in the

23 territory of Kosovo and Metohija and stated his wishes as to where he

24 wanted to go and what he wished to visit. He visited villages in the

25 Podujevo municipality and, I reiterate, he was amazed. I can testify to

1 that because I was all the time with him, in the car or next to him.

2 He this thought, based on his prior knowledge from Canada and TV

3 reports, he had thought that he would find scorched earth. And when we

4 arrived to villages where Albanians continued to live normally, he said

5 that there was an epidemic of diarrhea in the village, which wasn't true,

6 because throughout the war there had been no epidemics in Kosovo. And

7 then he asked me to bring people from the democratic union of Kosovo

8 headed by Ibrahim Rugova because he wanted to speak to them. I answered

9 it was impossible.

10 And when we headed on from those villages to Pristina, he kept

11 saying, "Everything is scorched here." I asked the driver to stop, to

12 pull over, and I told Mr. Robinson, "Look at any side of the road you

13 like. Look at any village you like. Let us count the houses that were

14 burnt down, not scorched."

15 Out of all the houses in one village, there would be two or three

16 that had been damaged in the fighting between regular forces and the KLA.

17 And during the entire visit of Mr. Robinson, I didn't hear him say

18 anything that could tally with what Mr. Nice is saying. In one of the

19 villages, he met some villagers, such as Sajkovac --

20 MR. NICE:

21 Q. Next question, different topic. You are the first person, to my

22 knowledge, in this court, maybe ever, to offer an explanation for why

23 documents were taken from refugees. I have it at page 8 of the last

24 transcript, where you said this: "It indeed happened that personal

25 documents were taken away. I don't think it was done following some

1 orders. It was done as a precaution maybe because these documents could

2 have been abused. There is a central computer at the level of the state

3 of Serbia where all the citizens of Serbia are registered. So any citizen

4 of Serbia, even if they've lost their IDs, could get new IDs."

5 Two points: First, you gave that answer because you're here with

6 a mission to try and achieve an acquittal for this accused, not to tell

7 the truth. That's my first and clear submission to you. Do you follow?

8 A. I follow you perfectly well, Mr. Nice.

9 JUDGE ROBINSON: What do you say to that? He's putting that to

10 you. Do you agree with that proposition or not? Let's move on.

11 MR. NICE:

12 Q. And --

13 JUDGE ROBINSON: Let's hear the answer.

14 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] No.

15 JUDGE ROBINSON: Right.

16 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] No.

17 MR. NICE:

18 Q. When you were at the border, did you see anyone having their

19 identification documents being taken from them?

20 A. I was very clear in my testimony. I said I hadn't seen such

21 cases, but I heard of such cases. I said that for a while that was the

22 practice, and following that I explained with all the knowledge that I

23 have about it.

24 Q. I don't have the time to explore this observation of yours in any

25 more detail than to this effect: Would you accept that if what you say is

1 the theory to justify the removal of documents is correct, the Albanians

2 should have been told, "We're taking these documents from you for your own

3 good. You can get your documents back later"? Would you accept that that

4 would be the logical conclusion of your position?

5 A. Mr. Nice, I said that those people, even those whose documents had

6 been taken away, were alive, and they can get their documents back. Or

7 are you going to say that their documents were taken away so that they

8 could be written off from the list of living people?

9 Q. Would you listen to the question again --

10 A. I said for what reason their documents might have been taken away.

11 Q. If the documents were being taken for their own good, they should

12 have been told they could get identifications back, shouldn't they?

13 A. I really don't know what they were told when their documents --

14 Q. Very well.

15 A. -- were taken away. I didn't see a single such case happening.

16 JUDGE BONOMY: Doctor, what was the abuse that you had in mind?

17 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Such documents could have been used

18 for forgery and to enable infiltration of terrorist gangs dressed in

19 civilian clothes into the territory of Kosovo and Metohija.

20 JUDGE BONOMY: Sorry, I -- I just don't understand the point, I'm

21 afraid.

22 MR. NICE:

23 Q. Well, I'm afraid for want of time I can only end it in this way,

24 Dr. Andric: You gave that answer to the Court, an answer of that

25 explanation to Court, one that you know to be false so you gave it

1 dishonestly, because you as a member of the TEC probably know exactly that

2 there was a policy of taking identification papers from Kosovo Albanians

3 so that they could not come back. Isn't that the truth?

4 A. I am asking now for the protection of the Trial Chamber. This

5 proposition is absolutely not true. There was not a single meeting of

6 anybody of the temporary Executive Council that made such a decision or

7 discussed such a possibility. This is absolutely inaccurate.

8 Q. Next question on that council, which we have established was

9 effectively the highest authority of a non-military kind, and it's this:

10 Your explanation to the Chamber is that killings were by individual

11 criminals at worst, never by the military or the army. You were in

12 regular contact with the army and the police. We have had evidence of

13 bodies being moved from Kosovo to Batajnica, as very recently the Serb war

14 crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic has acknowledged, 800 bodies, the

15 subject of mass execution, were moved from Kosovo to Serbia.

16 Now, if these bodies were killed just by way of criminal killings,

17 you as the civil administration should be able to tell us, should you not,

18 why were they moved in refrigerated trucks to Serbia?

19 A. Mr. Nice, when you were asking this question, you made several

20 inaccurate points. It is true that we had daily contacts with -- or,

21 rather, it is not true we had daily contacts with the army and the police.

22 I said on the first day of my testimony that we contacted with the army

23 and the police only at the level of the staff for coordinating the

24 activities of the civil authorities with the army and the MUP.

25 The only point of our cooperation with the army and the police was

1 to help the population. Now you're asking me about certain parts of

2 police investigations and how bodies were transported. I was not involved

3 in any way. I know nothing about the removal of bodies. The Court will

4 have to decide about that. The temporary Executive Council had nothing to

5 do and had no knowledge about any of that.

6 Q. So you as somebody, a doctor, dealing with public-health issues no

7 doubt at some stage, knew nothing of the clearing of the terrain of

8 bodies, the digging up of bodies and their being moved to Serbia. Is that

9 really right?

10 A. Again, in putting your question you are asserting things that I

11 know nothing about. Of course I'm familiar with the clearing of the

12 terrain as such. However, it is the army who does that. Staffs for

13 civilian protection performed the clearing of the terrain, and it involved

14 mainly the removal of carcasses of cattle and the removal or alleviation

15 of consequences of bombing, environmental protection after, again, bombs

16 hitting oil refineries or stocks of oil --

17 Q. Very well.

18 A. -- and such. You are talking now about things that I know nothing

19 about. You're talking about 800 bodies which are part of a court

20 investigation.

21 MR. NICE: The last of my questions I'll put in a couple of

22 sentences. I'll identify the tabs that I would have relied on and that

23 could be available for others to review. Of the documents that have been

24 circulated, it's tabs 5, 11, 12, 13, 15, 29, and significantly 25, which

25 deals with a meeting on the 24th of March about which the witness has

1 already spoken.

2 Q. And my proposition to you on the TEC or, rather, the provisional

3 council, is this: One - just yes or no - the idea to appoint this came

4 from the accused. Yes or no. I've asked you this before but I want just

5 to run through.

6 A. No.

7 Q. Second, once the Serb Assembly appointed the body, appointments to

8 it were exactly that: People were appointed, Andjelkovic as the chairman

9 and the rest of you as members. There was no question of election by the

10 people; correct?

11 A. That is correct. For dozens of years, Albanians did not want to

12 turn up at the elections. They had a democratic right to participate or

13 not to participate. They chose not to.

14 Q. [Previous translation continues]... again. There may have been

15 elections in Serbia. There were no elections, since 1990, in Kosovo, were

16 there?

17 A. That is not true, Mr. Nice. Every time elections were held in

18 Serbia, they were held in the entire territory of Kosovo and Metohija

19 because Kosovo is an integral part of Serbia, and everybody who wanted to

20 take part took part. Those who didn't want to, didn't.

21 Q. And the council was originally financed by the accused's political

22 party, the SPS, through one of its companies?

23 A. That is not true. The council was financed just as any other

24 part, any other body of the state authority, through the budget. And in

25 that year, 1998, we made a draft budget for the following year, and it was

1 endorsed by the Assembly of Serbia.

2 Q. Andjelkovic, the chairman or president, made it clear that your

3 duties were as members of the SPS just as much as anything else. So it

4 was a party-dominated body.

5 A. That is not true. Quite the contrary. I remember very clearly

6 being summoned to an interview and being offered the position of the

7 provincial secretary for health care. There was a man with me who later

8 became the provincial secretary for agriculture, and both of us were

9 surprised at being summoned.

10 Andjelkovic told us, "I don't want politicians. I want experts.

11 I want a good government." I don't believe that Mr. Andjelkovic provided

12 you with this information.

13 MR. NICE: There is another witness. There's one listed who may

14 be able to deal with the provisional Executive Council and the supreme or

15 Joint Command. I'll deal with my questions through that witness. Thank

16 you.

17 JUDGE ROBINSON: Thank you, Mr. Nice.

18 Mr. Milosevic, re-examination.

19 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] There is no microphone. The

20 microphone is now on.

21 Before I start my re-direct, would you please explain, because I

22 didn't quite understand. Mr. Nice just enumerated a number of tabs from

23 the binder he provided. He said 5, 11, 12, 29, 25, and then he didn't

24 elaborate. Did he introduce these tabs into evidence or did he simply

25 give them up? What was that all about?

1 JUDGE ROBINSON: No, they were not introduced into evidence.

2 Mr. Nice can clarify, but my understanding is that he --

3 MR. NICE: Yes -- I'm sorry. They're identified for the

4 assistance of the accused, the assigned counsel, and indeed the Bench, as

5 the documents upon which I relied, inter alia, for the propositions I was

6 putting, and they will then be on notice with later witnesses, or possibly

7 in a rebuttal case, that that's material I will rely on. But I don't

8 invite the accused to deal with them in re-examination unless he

9 particularly wishes to do so, but of course if he does, they may become

10 exhibits at that stage, but I'm not pressing for that.

11 JUDGE KWON: Among that bundle, only tab that you're going to

12 introduce is tab 30?

13 MR. NICE: Your Honour, as ever, is spot on. Tab 30 I have more

14 formally dealt with it, which was Mr. Robinson's --

15 JUDGE KWON: We'll deal with it later.

16 JUDGE ROBINSON: Mr. Milosevic, you may begin your

17 cross-examination [sic].

18 MR. KAY: Is tab 30 to have an exhibit number?

19 JUDGE ROBINSON: We'll deal with all the exhibits later.

20 The transcript has me as saying, "Mr. Milosevic, you may begin

21 your cross-examination." It's re-examination.

22 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Thank you, Mr. Robinson. I have

23 just a few questions.

24 Re-examined by Mr. Milosevic:

25 Q. [Interpretation] Dr. Andric, at the beginning of the NATO

1 aggression, according to all the evidence presented here, many statements

2 were given by refugees fleeing Kosovo who said that they were fleeing from

3 the bombing. Is that correct?

4 A. Yes.

5 Q. Is it the case that later, as CNN reported, and the CNN version

6 became the accepted version, they claimed that they were fleeing from

7 Serbian forces rather than the bombing?

8 A. Correct.

9 Q. Several statements have been shown you --

10 MR. NICE: Your Honour, I'm sorry to have to ask, because as soon

11 as I sit down it's unappealing for me to be rising to object, but the

12 accused does it time and again. He moves into the most extraordinary

13 leading question and mode of questioning, which is of no value to the

14 Chamber, in my submission.

15 JUDGE ROBINSON: Mr. Milosevic, we have been through this already.

16 I try to be as lenient with you as possible, but you must be disciplined

17 and not ask questions which suggest the answers to the witness.

18 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] All right. I'm not going to ask any

19 leading questions.

20 MR. MILOSEVIC: [Interpretation]

21 Q. Mr. Andric, in the video recording made in 1999, we saw certain

22 members of the provisional Executive Council. We had opportunity to see

23 Mr. Guxhufi, Mr. Jashari, among others, addressing a large number of

24 Albanian refugees and telling them that they should return to their

25 villages. Did we see that?

1 A. Yes.

2 Q. Please explain now. How come that members of the temporary

3 Executive Council are leafing through the map and telling them which

4 villages are safe to return to and others were not? Is it true that it

5 was a matter of safety?

6 A. Yes.

7 Q. Is it true that they were urged to return to their villages

8 wherever possible?

9 A. Yes.

10 Q. And now we are hearing the theory that the same authorities are

11 driving them away, forcing them to leave the villages.

12 A. That is not true. Throughout the war, our Executive Council was

13 trying to take care of those people and to keep them in their villages,

14 providing medical assistance, providing food and everything else.

15 Q. All right. Now we saw from these statements taken a couple of

16 days ago, we saw Guxhufi, Jashari, and others telling them to return to

17 their villages. Now we see some of those people retracting, saying that

18 the Serbian authorities were driving them away. How come that these

19 people are saying now in 2005 that Serbs were expelling them?

20 A. I can understand those people to some extent. They are under

21 horrible pressure. They have no choice but to say what they are saying.

22 They do not dare to say anything else. Especially striking is the case of

23 that lawyer. He has to save his bare life.

24 JUDGE ROBINSON: What pressure would they be under now?

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2 lives are jeopardised, so they had to give such a statement. And I will

3 support this with the following: How is it possible that an attorney,

4 therefore not a farmer but an attorney, who has worked as a lawyer his

5 entire life did not know that he was interviewed by journalists and

6 believed those people to be inspectors of the SUP? So how would that be

7 possible? There were many, many other illogical claims in his statement

8 as well. So they -- these people are under terrible pressure, and this is

9 what they have to say. I understand that.

10 MR. MILOSEVIC: [Interpretation]

11 Q. All right. Now that you have mentioned this example, Mr. Nice

12 mentioned this attorney who didn't know it was the journalists

13 interviewing them. Now, please tell me, when somebody approaches you with

14 a microphone and their TV camera is in front of you, would you believe

15 that these people are journalists or would you assume that they are from

16 police?

17 JUDGE ROBINSON: I'm not allowing that question. Don't answer it.

18 Next question.

19 MR. MILOSEVIC: [Interpretation]

20 Q. Very well. Now, this same attorney -- I don't have the transcript

21 in front of me now, but this same person stated that NATO targeted only

22 tanks.

23 Mr. Andric, if this was indeed true that NATO targeted only tanks,

24 do you know how many tanks were destroyed by NATO in the 78 days of

25 bombing?

1 A. In 78 days they destroyed 13 tanks and APCs.

2 Q. And during those 78 days, was NATO bombing Kosovo round the clock?

3 Is it well known?

4 A. Yes. They literally bombed it round the clock, 24 hours a day.

5 Q. Mr. Nice asked you about the statements given by civilians who

6 were injured in the columns near Meja, Bistrazin, and so on. There were

7 several drastic examples. Please tell us, was it the civilians who were

8 bombed on that occasion, and how many civilians were killed?

9 A. Yes, civilians were bombed and hundreds of civilians were killed.

10 I can give you the exact figures because I know them. In Bistrazin and

11 Meja, 82 were killed on the spot and 28 died in the course of transport to

12 the hospital and in hospital. This is as far as Bistrazin and Meja are

13 concerned. In Korusa hundreds of civilians were killed, out of which 30

14 children. In both places there were over 100 gravely injured people.

15 Q. Since you were on the spot then, you provided care to these people

16 and dealt with humanitarian issues, please tell us, in the vicinity of

17 those columns that were bombed, or perhaps in the vicinity of the bus that

18 was hit on the bridge where a lot of people were killed as well,

19 therefore, in the vicinity of these spots where there were grave

20 casualties, were there any tanks present or army units?

21 A. No. In the area of Meja and Bistrazin the column that was bombed

22 was bombed on the 14th of April, 1999. They started bombing at 1.30 p.m.,

23 and it continued for almost two hours. The planes returned several times

24 and bombed the column. When the health workers from Djakovica and Prizren

25 came to provide assistance to the wounded, the bombing was still going on.

1 They were still bombing the rear part of the column, and there were no

2 tanks or no army units present, anything to do with the army.

3 Q. Mr. Nice, when reading the statement of the witness which we can

4 see in tab 5.9, Mr. Nice especially highlighted the fact that she was an

5 illiterate woman. Now let us please take a look at this second statement

6 in 5.9, and the last sentence reads: "The statement has been read out to

7 me. I accept it as mine and affix my signature."

8 Precisely because this woman was illiterate, I think that the

9 regular procedure is to read out the statement to the person giving the

10 statement to be sure that the witness will confirm it as his or her own

11 statement. Is that the regular procedure?

12 A. Yes.

13 Q. In tab 5.9, we have these two statements. Please tell us, are

14 these statements in accordance with the footage we saw earlier describing

15 that same event, torched tractors, torched bodies? The footage describes

16 the terrible tragedy that took place on that day. So are these statements

17 in accordance with that footage recorded on the spot on that day?

18 A. Yes, they are. I was present at the spot 15 minutes before the

19 bombing started and I talked to those people and they're fully in

20 accordance with the footage.

21 Q. Very well. Mr. Nice put it to you that the doctors who remained

22 in Djakovica remained there on their own initiative, not because they were

23 invited to do so by the authorities, "authorities" being a rather broad

24 term. I have the statement submitted by Mr. Nice just now, which was

25 given on the 25th of February by Samile Juniku. That's the statement that

1 you received during the break. So this is the statement taken by the 25th

2 -- on the 25th of February, 2005, and at the end of page 2, this person -

3 I assume that this person is a physician - so the last sentence on page 2

4 reads: "Again, I questioned a colleague about this and [In English] was

5 informed that Dr. Muhaxhiri had been invited to stay at the hospital by

6 the then hospital director, Dr. Sava Stanojevic."

7 JUDGE ROBINSON: Question? What's the question?

8 MR. NICE: Before the witness answers, if the accused is going to

9 pursue this line, he's obviously got to go to the second page and go to

10 the paragraph beginning, "In the presence of my patient and the

11 soldier..."

12 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] I normally don't give instructions

13 to Mr. Nice as to what he should quote when he is giving quotations

14 because I normally quote full sentences and he normally takes things out

15 of context.

16 Q. But my question is: Is it clear from this description that the

17 Serbian doctor who here represents the authorities was the one who in fact

18 invited these people to come and stay there with their families? So they

19 didn't stay on their own initiative. This was at the invitation.

20 A. Yes. On the 25th of March, I signed an order stating that all the

21 health professionals had to remain in their posts and could bring in their

22 families if they wanted. The state of war was declared, and that was the

23 situation at the time.

24 Q. All right. Now, immediately after that, when he said that he was

25 invited by the director to remain, he said: "From my section alone, there

1 were maybe four doctors with their families, [In English] as well as a

2 number of nurses who were staying on the hospital premises day and night.

3 A similar situation existed within other sections of the hospital. As

4 head of the section and having established that the staff there in fear of

5 their safety from police and military within the city of Gjakove, I was

6 satisfied that they could remain living at the hospital."

7 [Interpretation] Therefore, he says that he decided that they

8 should remain and live in the hospital, and prior to that he stated that

9 Sava Stanojevic, the director, invited them to remain at the hospital. So

10 they basically wanted the doctors to be at the hospital to treat patients.

11 Please, can you tell us, what is the percentage of Albanians in

12 Djakovica?

13 A. About 95 per cent.

14 Q. Therefore, the director of the hospital insisted that the doctors

15 should remain in order to treat the patients, 99 per cent of whom are in

16 fact Albanians?

17 A. Yes.

18 Q. And how is that related? How does that relate to the claim that

19 the authorities are expelling Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija?

20 A. That claim is not true at all. In Djakovica hospital, there was

21 731 employees. Out of that figure, 605 were Albanians. And what was

22 taking place in Djakovica could happen anywhere in Kosovo and Metohija.

23 The same rule applied. The authorities did not expel anyone.

24 On the 25th in the morning I signed that order especially

25 highlighting that all those health professionals who believed that their

1 families were not safe enough could bring their families to the premises

2 of health centres. This applied in the entire territory of Kosovo and

3 Metohija, and it was only in Djakovica that Albanian doctors fully applied

4 this and brought their families to the hospital.

5 This shows something else contrary to what this Albanian colleague

6 of mine, physician claimed in that statement of hers, that they were

7 expelled. So how come that she was expelled when in Djakovica 605

8 Albanian employees remained working at the hospital without any problems?

9 This other lady was absent for a week from work during the war and

10 because of that she lost her job because she had left her job.

11 Q. Very well. Now, please tell us this: When applying this position

12 that people should seek refuge at the hospital, what was the guiding

13 thought? Was it that NATO would refrain from bombing hospitals and that

14 they would be safe in hospitals?

15 A. Yes, precisely, because hospitals were clearly marked and they

16 could be sure that their families would be safe at the hospital while at

17 the same time the doctors could work.

18 Let me mention this once again. This was the state of war, and

19 work obligation was implemented and everybody had to comply with their

20 work obligation.

21 JUDGE BONOMY: Before we -- before we move on, I wonder if you

22 could have that statement in front of you briefly.

23 Is there a Serb version of this, Mr. Nice?

24 MR. NICE: No, we didn't have time.

25 JUDGE BONOMY: There's not. Well, Mr. Milosevic has quoted parts

1 to you ending at the top of page 3. Can you read the English version,

2 Doctor?

3 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] No.

4 JUDGE BONOMY: If I read it to you perhaps you can comment on

5 this. After the part that he read to you, it goes on: "Towards the end

6 of the week, on either 8 or 9 April 1999, I was conducting an ultrasound

7 examination on a patient within the hospital. At this time, I saw and

8 spoke with the director -- at this time, I saw and spoke with the

9 director, Dr. Stanojevic, who was visiting a soldier in the same part of

10 the hospital ..." The witness goes on to explain that he thought that he

11 was a paramilitary. And he goes on to say: "In the presence of my

12 patient and the soldier, Dr. Stanojevic questioned me about the staff and

13 their families residing in the hospital. I explained my understanding as

14 to why they were there, and Dr. Stanojevic told me that I should order the

15 staff to cease residing in the hospital. I informed him that I had not

16 invited any of the staff to stay at the hospital and requested that he, as

17 director, give written instructions for staff to leave the hospital

18 grounds outside of working hours. I further informed Dr. Stanojevic that

19 I, as head of section, would act upon his written instructions once they

20 were received."

21 Now, that seems to contradict the earlier part. Can you explain

22 why Dr. Stanojevic would want the staff to leave the hospital?

23 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Before the witness answers, in order

24 to be fair, I would like to read the last sentence in that passage, which

25 reads: "Our conversation ended [In English] at this point and at no time

1 in the future did I receive written instructions from the Director or

2 anyone else." [Interpretation] So the instructions that he sought

3 concerning leaving the hospital are the instructions that he in fact never

4 received. So nobody ordered him to ensure that the people left the

5 hospital.

6 JUDGE BONOMY: Mr. Milosevic, you have every opportunity to ask

7 questions here and expand upon anything that's asked by me, but I would be

8 extremely grateful if you would not interrupt my questioning of the

9 witness.

10 Now, Dr. Andric, could you please answer the question. Why do you

11 think Dr. Stanojevic would suggest that the staff should cease residing in

12 the hospital?

13 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Your Honour Judge Bonomy, first of

14 all I would like to say that here in one sentence once again paramilitary

15 formations are mentioned. I would like to repeat that in the territory of

16 Kosovo and Metohija, there were no paramilitary formations present at all.

17 The army of Yugoslavia would never allow the presence of such formations

18 and --

19 JUDGE ROBINSON: That's not the question, Doctor. Just attend to

20 the question the Judge asked you.

21 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I will answer now, Your Honour Judge

22 Robinson. I think that Dr. Stanojevic would be the best person to give an

23 answer. I don't know how is it that this physician came to give this

24 statement, but let me tell you, I visited the Djakovica hospital on the

25 14th of April, 1999. I spoke to almost all doctors, Albanians and the

1 other staff working there. I did not hear from them a single complaint

2 regarding the conduct that -- and the treatment of Albanian physicians and

3 other staff. They all had their families there at the hospital, and none

4 of them had any problems until the very end.

5 I don't know why this physician gave this statement, but we cannot

6 take one person's statement and apply it to the rest of the 600 persons

7 working there.

8 MR. MILOSEVIC: [Interpretation]

9 Q. All right, Dr. Andric. Based on your experience, if this stated

10 by this doctor here was really true and if he indeed asked for written

11 instructions from Dr. Stanojevic, do you think that Dr. Stanojevic would

12 have given him those written instructions?

13 A. Dr. Stanojevic would not have been able to give him those written

14 instructions because that was not the official position and this is

15 precisely why he didn't give those written instructions, providing that

16 this statement is true. Dr. Stanojevic took good care of his staff and

17 his staff was able to remain there.

18 Q. And finally at the end of that statement, and four people signed

19 the statement, so I don't know why we're challenging this, but in the last

20 sentence, it says: "Dr. Zuna (No. 3), is correctly shown as being present

21 at the hospital. In addition to these doctors, there were a further five

22 doctors [In English] within my section who reported to work after the

23 commencement of NATO action in Kosovo."

24 [Interpretation] Now -- well, actually then it says on the

25 following page: "Those listed at number 1, 2, 3, and 5 as well as

1 Dr. Zuna, all stayed on the hospital premises after 24 March 1999."

2 Can you remember now and not to have to look for it in your tabs

3 how many medical staff members in the Djakovica hospital were of Albanian

4 ethnicity?

5 A. 605.

6 Q. Did any of these 605 people, Albanian employees working in the

7 hospital, did you receive reports that anybody was abused, sent away from

8 his work or discriminated against in any way whatsoever?

9 A. No.

10 Q. You were asked by Mr. Nice a moment ago about the freedom of the

11 press. Do you have any idea of how many papers were printed in the

12 Albanian language in Kosovo?

13 A. About 25, weeklies and monthlies.

14 Q. Now, did these papers openly criticise state policy, criticise

15 myself personally, and generally speaking wrote from the positions of

16 Albanian separatism, and were they published did they come out, and could

17 you buy them in the streets and kiosks?

18 A. Yes, they wrote whatever they wanted to write. There were no

19 restrictions.

20 Q. Was a single copy or issue ever banned?

21 A. No.

22 Q. Mr. Nice asked you something else with respect to the poisoning

23 case, the alleged case of the poisoning that took place in the early

24 1990s. You explained to us here that laboratory tests and analyses were

25 conducted of blood, urine, et cetera. Do you know that any single

1 analysis was conducted and where the findings were that there was the

2 presence of any noxious matter at all?

3 A. No. Although Mr. Nice mentioned a report which I never heard

4 about, I really don't know about that report and I don't think it is the

5 right report because the commission numbered 11 people and tabled their

6 own report, and it was that report which was adopted later on and sent

7 forward to the World Health Organisation. So there was absolutely no

8 proof of a single case of poisoning, whereas there were about 100.000

9 cases in the three and a half months that went through the health

10 institutions on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija.

11 Q. Mr. Nice quoted tab 6. I can't seem to find tab 6 here now. I

12 put it away because it wasn't admitted, but it seems to be accepted now,

13 but I have the English translation of it where it says: "Dr. Branko Pocek

14 --" I assume he's not a Serb, and we're talking about the federal

15 committee that discussed the matter --

16 A. He was the director of the federal institute for health protection

17 at that time.

18 Q. Very well. "... Dr. Branko Pocek said that ethical norms [In

19 English] and the Hippocratic oath were violated in Kosovo because health

20 workers were guided by certain political objectives."

21 [Interpretation] That the Hippocratic oath was violated. So was

22 that what was established at federal level at the time, as far as you

23 remember?

24 A. Yes, and it was a continuation of the manipulations, from the

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1 1990s, the 1990s and the mass poisoning and the general strike in

2 September 1990. So there were a series of manifestations of that kind

3 that were staged, manufactured, and I can't remember them all.

4 JUDGE ROBINSON: Doctor, let me just clarify this. You say that

5 in the period of three and a half months there were 100.000 cases of

6 alleged poisoning; is that right?

7 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Your Honour Judge Robinson, roughly

8 speaking, that's the number. However, I have to s