'GOSPIC GROUP' TRIAL COURT VIEWS HTV REPORTS ON WAR TORN GOSPIC

RIJEKA, August 21 (Hina) - At Wednesday's continuation of the trial against the so-called Gospic Group for war crimes against civilians in Gospic in 1991, the Rijeka County Court viewed video reports by Croatian Television (HTV) news programmes from the period of September through October 1991 relating to the Gospic area. #L# The reports mostly showed the Gospic battle field and attacks by Serb forces, as well as the destruction of the town. In addition, there were several unedited shots taken by HTV that were never broadcast on news reports. Amongst the material shown were shots of seven corpses - Croats killed from the villages of Bukovac, members of the Pocrnic and Hecimovic families who were brought into the Gospic hospital. They were killed mid-October 1991, under inexplicable circumstances. Nikica Dosen (known as Zec) testified during Wednesday's proceedings presided by Judge Ika Saric. Witnesses have testified that Dosan, together with two other people, abducted Nikola Miscevic from his home. Dosen said that he had only learnt about the abduction of civilians from the press. To almost every question he was asked he said he did not remember. Asked by deputy county prosecutor Doris Hrast, he said that he had problems with his memory, but had not sought medical assistance. The trial will continue on Thursday when a video recording will be shown portraying the exhumation of bodies of civilians killed on Lipova Glavica. The bodies were exhumed from a cemetery in Debelo Brdo near Udbine during an investigation two years ago. Another recording to be shown will be a news report by Serbs from the then so-called Krajina region. The report is about the discovery of 24 bodies on Lipova Glavica and an autopsy conducted at the military- medical academy in Belgrade. (hina) sp sb