ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Jan 13 (Hina) - The trial of retired Yugoslav Army general Pavle Strugar, accused by the Hague war crimes tribunal of the shelling of southern Croatia's Dubrovnik in 1991, resumed on Tuesday with the testimony of
Paul Davies, a cameraman for the ITN network.
ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Jan 13 (Hina) - The trial of retired Yugoslav Army
general Pavle Strugar, accused by the Hague war crimes tribunal of the
shelling of southern Croatia's Dubrovnik in 1991, resumed on Tuesday
with the testimony of Paul Davies, a cameraman for the ITN network.#L#
Responding to questions from prosecutor Susan Sommers about events
between 9 and 12 November 1991, Davies called the four days a
coordinated, deliberate, persistent attack by the Yugoslav People's
Army (JNA), from land, air and sea, on Dubrovnik's Old Town.
Davies said he saw guided missiles falling on the town walls and the
Old Town, which he labelled a calculated decision to destroy the
seaside resort.
Cross-examining the witness, defence attorney Goran Rodic tried to
show Davies could have seen the situation in Dubrovnik at the time
from only one perspective and that he could not state with certainty
that Croatian Army (HV) mortars were only responding to the JNA
attacks. He said the HV tactic was attack and quick redeployment.
Davies said that only the commanders who ordered individual operations
could say who fired the first shot but that he could speak with
certainty about the extent of what happened afterwards.
Davies resumes the testimony on Thursday.
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