The reporter spoke about his visits to the town of Dvor na Uni and the villages of Struga and Glina in July and August 1991, when Serb forces occupied those areas and expelled the Croat population. The ethnic cleansing campaign was conducted by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), local Territorial Defence (TO) units, Martic's police units and special forces under the command of Captain Dragan, who was on the payroll of the Serbian State Security (SDB) service.
The witness said that TO commanders had told him after the massacre of civilians in Struga that the purpose of the operation was to rid the village of Croatian police and the area of its Croat population.
He also described how his TV crew visited Glina around 12 July 1991 when the village was under the control of Captain Dragan's paramilitaries. Van Lynden described how JNA forces took Glina from those forces, amidst a row between their commanders.
The witness said that the following day he visited Dvor na Uni, where members of Captain Dragan's units had imprisoned 10 members of TO units who had previously killed four Croat women, who were patients at the local hospital.
Martic had a meeting with Captain Dragan and ordered that those ten people be released, van Lynden said, adding that Captain Dragan had urged punishment for his soldiers because he insisted on discipline.
Speaking about Captain Dragan, the witness said that it was clear that he was receiving considerable funds from abroad, without explicitly mentioning Belgrade.
Before van Lynden, Charles Kirudja, former UNPROFOR civil coordinator in Topusko, described how the former Croatian Serb rebel government, led by Martic, ignored the Vance peace plan by continuing to operate even after the arrival of peacekeeping troops, while the local Serb army changed into police uniforms to avoid demobilisation.
The presentation of evidence by the prosecution will continue on Tuesday.
Martic is charged with 19 counts of war crimes against Croats in Croatia's formerly occupied areas in 1991-95, crimes in western Bosnia in 1994, and the shelling of Zagreb in May 1995.