Colonel Grujic, who has been working in government bodies for the missing and imprisoned since 1993, gave a very detailed statement about victims, which the prosecution introduced as evidence, including a report written by the witness and an analysis of a list of victims exhumed from mass graves from an annex to Martic's indictment.
At least 12,078 people were killed in the war in Croatia, including 4,508 civilians and 6,788 soldiers, Grujic said. The bodies of 3,568 victims have been exhumed from mass and individual graves so far, he said.
Croatia is still looking for 1,140 missing persons, of whom 950 went missing by 1992, he said.
The witness also spoke about exhumations of mass graves containing the victims of massacres committed by units under Martic's control in the autumn of 1991.
Cross-examining the witness, Martic's attorney Predrag Milovancevic tried to challenge his credibility, stating that he was in conflict of interest. He cited the indictment against Croatian generals Ivan Cermak, Mladen Markac and Ante Gotovina, which charges the Croatian state and military leadership and members of security and intelligence services, whose member the attorney claimed Grujic was, with the expulsion of Croatian Serbs in the 1995 Operation Storm.
The witness stated that since 1993 he had been involved exclusively in the search for missing and imprisoned persons.
The attorney insisted that there was a complete disproportion between the prosecution's information stated in indictments referring to Operation Storm and what Grujic was claiming.
Presiding judge Bakone Justice Moloto dismissed the attorney's objection, saying that Grujic was testifying about events that had nothing to do with Operation Storm.
Martic, a former minister of the interior and president of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serb Krajina, is charged with crimes against humanity committed in Croatia's formerly occupied areas between 1991 and 1995, war crimes in Bosnia committed in 1994, and with the May 1995 shelling of Zagreb.