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(...) During the debate, which lasted four hours, many issues were raised:
- Who issued the order to deploy the troops of the Serbian Army of Krajina, including
the 31 st Infantry Brigade, to the Western Bosnian Th eatre? Th e military and political
goals of the action in Western Bosnia were clear to the councilmen. What was not clear,
however, was the reason why the action was not completed within the planned time, and
how long the troops would have to hold positions 2-3 km deep in the Western Bosnian
territory controlled by the forces of Fikret Abdić’s People’s Defence.
- Why are civilians assumed to pass relevant information to the enemy also present next
to the troops on the achieved positions?
- Who is responsible for the widespread and almost legal black market along the RSK
borders with Western Bosnia?
- Why are troops sent to the front untrained, physically unprepared, ill and underequipped
(cell phones)?
- Why has the Serbian Army of Krajina only lost territory since the arrival of UN forces
(Maslenica, Miljevac plateau, Medak pocket and, in the zone of responsibility of the 31 st
Infantry Brigade, Pribilović Brdo), and why is it in disarray?
- Th e mobilization on 19 November 1994, which led to the collapse of the economy, was
based on what assessment? (...)
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Original, typewritten, Latin script
HR-HMDCDR, 5, reg. no. 156-3/1995
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1995, 10 April
Report of the SVK General Staff to Slobodan Milošević, Milan Martić and Momčilo
Perišić on Croatian force activities, the situation in Western Bosnia, unit morale,
personnel problems and relations with UNPROFOR in the fi rst quarter of 1995.
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(...)
Regular operational report of the SVK General Staff
Copy to:
CABINET OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
(Att. Mr. Slobodan Milošević)
CABINET OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIAN KRAJINA
(Att. Mr. Milan Martić)
CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY OF YUGOSLAVIA
(Att. Colonel General Momčilo Perišić)
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