"On my way from Ovcara to Grabovo I saw many people, and at Grabovo between 40 to 50 people were already waiting. When the tractor pulled up, the prisoners were let out of the trailer and lined up near the grave and everybody started shooting at them. I looked away," Dukic said.
Dukic said that he had arrived at the hospital earlier in the day with two Yugoslav People's Army officers as they did not know the way to the hospital.
There the witness saw buses and civilians and heard Major Veselin Sljivancanin say that whoever had taken part in the fighting would be put on trial, while the wounded and the hospital staff would be transported to Croatia. The witness concluded that the buses were there to transport the people who would be tried in Serbia, and when he recognised among the wounded one of his acquaintances, he helped him into the bus he was told was leaving for Croatia. He then drove to the hangar at Ovcara with "a sergeant and two or three soldiers". Two military police officers told him that he could not enter the hangar and that the prisoners would be transferred from the hangar to a prison.
"The guards moved away. A trailer tractor arrived and they started ordering the prisoners onto the trailer. I thought I had seen an acquaintance, Damir Jurela, getting onto the trailer, and I waived to him, and sat on the driver's cabin. I thought that the prisoners would be transferred to a prison, but we soon swerved towards a plow-field and after five minutes we pulled up. There were people waiting there already," the witness said, adding that indictee Milan Lancuzanin aka Kameni, commander of the paramilitary unit "Leva supoderica", was also on the tractor, but in the driver's cabin. At the grave the witness saw indictee Predrag Madzarac, who "was in the shooting squad", but he could not say if Madzarac fired his weapon because he did not see flame coming from it. Shortly afterwards, the witness and Lancuzanin returned on the same tractor to Ovcara. The witness said that Lancuzanin murmured while leaving: "No good will come out of this". The witness spent some time at Ovcara where he saw another three or four trailer tractors take to Grabovo groups of 20-30 prisoners.
Asked why he sat on the driver's cabin, the witness said that he was curious: "I wanted to see the prisoners, because until yesterday we had lived together and then we fought against each other. I though that they were being taken to prison, there were some rumours, but nobody could imagine that this would happen because 200 people are said to have been there," said the witness, who denied some of his statements given during the investigation.
Asked explicitly if he met Lancuzanin after he had given his statement to the investigating judge and the prosecutor last October, the witness first denied this but when confronted with the accused, he confirmed having met him. According to unofficial sources, the witness last year sought police protection for his family claiming that Lancuzanin was threatening him.
The Ovcara war crimes trial will continue tomorrow, when Dukic will face other indictees and answer their questions and when new witnesses for the prosecution will be questioned.