MATERIAL WITNESS by Susan Schuppli

Author:Susan Schuppli [Schuppli, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: matter; material; media; image; picture; video; photography; vision; data; information; computation; forensics; law; tribunal; trial; forum; convention; institution; politics; crime; violence; war; conflict; justice; injustice; aesthetics; art; imagination; witness; testimony; evidence; event; accident; environment; contamination; nuclear; sound; sonics; frequency; noise; record; archive;
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Witness for the prosecution Liri Loshi gives evidence before Judge Iain Bonomy, International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Thursday, October 26, 2006

[Videotape played]

Judge Bonomy: Q. Now, I have a question to clear up with your statement of 19 May 1999. The first page of that statement you’re describing the videotape that we’ve seen portions of here today. And you say in that statement under oath: “I recorded this videotape myself on March 31st, 1999, and this original exhibit has been in my constructive possession from the time of filming until now.”

Now, we already know, thanks to the testimony that you gave in the statement you made under oath is not true and accurate because Mr. Thaqi is the one who recorded the video.

Now, is it also the case that the second part of this statement, that is to say that you had the original tape in your constructive possession at all times before delivery to the Prosecutor, that statement is not accurate and in fact is false. Isn’t that correct?

The Witness [Liri Loshi]: A. No. This is correct, but I believe this is a misunderstanding.

Because what I was—what I said there or what I was trying to explain there, and I did—I believe I did so, was that just after the taping was done by Sefedin Thaqi in—after a few days, I believe this was April 3rd or 4th, I can’t remember it now, we transferred the whole filming from his tape to VHS tape, which I had it all the time in my possession.

But that tape I couldn’t bring with myself to Albania because I found it very dangerous to take it with myself. Later on I meant I could and I would, but I never did because I found it too dangerous.

And then I was trying to get a hold of Sefedin Thaqi’s tape, which I did. And this is how this Sefedin Thaqi’s tape got into Tribunal and not my tape that you’re referring to, which, of course, like you said, was in my possession all the time. And I believe now it’s in a possession of Tribunal of The Hague as well.

Q. Now, with respect to Mr. Thaqi’s tape, am I correct that this tape was at one point in time stolen by some thieves?

A. Yes. At the time where I was looking for this tape, his own camera was stolen, I believe not because of the tape but because—the tape was stolen because of camera. The thieves didn’t even know what was in. And then with the help of Shaban Dragaj I get a hold of this tape again.20

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