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of the General Staff . On 4 August Karadžić tried to assume command of the armed forces
and off ered General Mladić the post of “special adviser to the commander-in-chief for
the coordination of joint RS and RSK defence”. However, General Mladić turned down
the off er and kept his position with the support of the army. 485
Actions of the VRS land forces intended to help the SVK were negligible. On 7 August
in the morning two VRS aircraft attacked the village of Mačkovac in the municipality of
Nova Gradiška, zone of responsibility of the 121 st Home Guard Regiment. Th ree cluster
bombs were dropped on the village church and a near-by house; one HV soldier was
killed and seven wounded. One civilian was also killed in the raid, and fi ve wounded, out
of whom two children. 486 Altogether 5 people were killed and 38 wounded by Serbian
attacks in the area under consideration. 487
Banovina, 7 August 1995
485 “General Mladić na čelu vojske” (General Mladić at the Head of the Army); Krajiški vojnik, August 1995,
19-22; “Hronologija” (Chronology), 255.
486 MORH, GSHV: ZZP Bjelovar, IZpM Novska cl. 80-01/95-01, reg. no. 1077-04-95-573 od 7 August 1995;
Report. MORH, GSHV: ZZP Bjelovar, IZpM Novska cl. 80-01/95-01, reg. no. 1077-06/03-95-575 of 7 August
1995; Report.
487 MORH, GSHV: ZP Osijek Command, cl. 560-01/95-01/01, reg. no. 1076-02/5-95-02-3 of 7 August 1995; Report.
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