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Humanitarian Law Centerin his statement, the witness said the truth was what he had said duringthe main trial on 10 December 2003 before the District Court in Belgrade.Summoned to the previous date of the main trial, on 8 December 2003,the witness did come to the trial, but said he was not feeling well. Explainingthis statement at the following main trial, on 10 December 2003, witnessStoparić declared that the reason he didn’t want to witness was hisconversation in the corridor before the courtroom with commander SlobodanMedić who told him there that his brother Dragan, aka Guljo, woulddie in two days if he went to prison, and then told him “Do this for me andthen we’ll sit down at my place and I will pay you back; I know you are nota traitor”.Witness Stoparić said he was afraid because, after presenting his testimony,he had a bull’s eye target on his back. Upon the motion of the deputy publicprosecutor at the main trial, the court brought a decision to undertakespecial security measures concerning witness Goran Stoparić. The decisionwas carried out by the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia.The court accepted, in full, the statement of witness Stoparić given at themain trial on 10 December 2003. This statement is clear and convincingand, what’s most important, it corroborates the statements of the children- the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs described their movement through the courtyardinto the street and back, and the witness described it in the same way.The detail about the search carried out by Miodrag Šolaja, aka Zicko, alsotallies with what witness Šolaja had said at the main trial - and agrees withthe description of the persons who had searched them given by the underageplaintiffs - the Bogujevci children. It is also characteristic that the plaintiffsstated that that person had stopped searching them when somebodytold him to stop searching them - exactly the same description as the onegiven by witness Stoparić. The statement of the witness is confirmed by thefact that defendant Saša Cvjetan had entered the courtyard with a group ofcivilians mentioned in her statement by underage Lirrie Bogujevci. Becauseof that, the court decided that the witness could not have described thesedetails had he not really seen them. Although, at earlier hearings, he haddescribed his arrival to the crime scene in a different manner, with an obviousintention to help the defendant and his defence at the main trial, witnessStoparić even then said that he had not entered the courtyard wherethe event took place. The witness repeated this piece of information - that306