Under the Verdict handed down by the Trial Panel, Jadranko Palija was found guilty because on 31 May 1992, together with other soldiers of the VRS, he took part in an attack against the hamlet of Begići, village of Kljevci, on which occasion they rounded up all the civilians they found there in front of the house of a civilian, where they separated women and children from men and detained them in the house, while they took the men across the fields known as “Vinogradine”. When they reached the slaughterhouse at the River Sanica, Jadranko Palija personally killed two civilians; he killed another civilian when arriving at the crossroads in Vrhpolje; he killed one more civilian on the main road leading to Sanski Most; he also killed a civilian on the Vrhpolje Bridge and together with other soldiers, he participated in the killing of fourteen civilians who were ordered to remove their clothes and jump off the bridge while being fired at as they were falling into the water; they did not succeed in killing one of the civilians on this occasion.