Court of the Witnesses: Why did you say otherwise about him? UNMIK in 2006 and now?

Judgment has begun on the fourth day. The witness has appeared today and is being questioned by the court at The Hague's Specialised Chambers.

The judge has asked the witness several times about the statement he had issued in 2006 before UNMIK and has tried to get an answer about why the witness's statement changed years later.

The statement, which Judge Mapie Veldt Foglia asked about, was for soldiers in Zlath, at the place where the witness claimed to have been held and claimed to have seen them in masks, but the same statement he had issued for the first time said he had not seen them.

I'm asking you because before U NMIC in 2006 you said there was a person wearing a mask who planted your gun. Why did you say he had a guy in a mask? You said the guy had a mask and you're saying he didn't have a mask. Why did you say otherwise in 2006”, the judge asked.

And the witness answered that he did not remember.

I probably said, but I don't think he had a mask, I couldn't see him. I forgot maybe I said, but now I'm saying I haven't seen it in my <x1. Foglia insisted again on clarification.

In your statement the last few days, you said that a month after you were released when you were in Zenica that you learned what the commander's name was at the location you were holding. In the same statement you said that in the 2006 statement, not after you got released but a few months after you knew who was responsible. Can you explain that... You said after a month you learned who the person in charge was, but before UNMIK you said you didn't know who the person in charge was. Why didn't you say 2006) the name you learned from”, ask the judge again.

The Witness replied that he has been asked the “200 times” and that he does not remember what he said. The judge told her that changing statements from someone could imply lying, but the witness reiterated that he forgot what he said.