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called Žika Crnogorac (which he later learned was the alias of Žika Ivanović). 3019 Later,
Captain Mitrić told Djukić that Ivanović was at the War Presidency of the Serbian
municipality of Brčko with two or three elite members, that he had done some work at the
secretariat confiscating looted property, and that he had arrived after Brčko was captured and
Savić (Mauzer) left. 3020 The witness’s cousin and two colleagues told him that Žika was
investigating the theft of luxury vehicles from the secretariat. 3021
1553. At the Kula ceremony in 1997, Simatović stated that 26 training camps were
established for special police units of the Bosnian-Serb Republic and the RSK, including one
at Brčko. 3022 At the start of the Kula ceremony in 1997, Colonel Žika Ivanović introduced the
veterans of the 1 Special Operations Unit of the Republic of Serbia DB, including Vaso
Mijović. 3023
1554. The Trial Chamber now turns to further documentary evidence establishing the
presence of Živojin Ivanović and other Unit members in Brčko in mid-1992. At the 4th
meeting of the Supreme Defence Council on 31 July 1992, Bulatović complained of persons
with uniforms and Krajina MUP IDs and mentioned that certain commanders of special
purposes units had signed passes for twenty people in uniform from Tikveš and Ilok to cross
through Pljevlja. 3024 On 7 August 1992, at the 5th Session of the Supreme Defence Council,
Pavle Bulatović stated that Živojin Ivanović, as a commander of a special purposes unit, had
signed and stamped documents (mentioning Tikveš and Ilok) permitting twenty people to
move across the territory of Serbia and of Pljevlja. 3025
1555. In a hand-written autobiography written at Tara on 4 December 1993, Nikola Pilipović
wrote that in mid-June 1992, he went with the unit to Bosnia with the aim to break through
and broaden the Brčko-Doboj corridor. 3026
1556. An undated note recorded that Želko Torbica, an instructor and squad commander of
the Special Purpose Unit of the Serbian MUP since 24 September 1991, was killed during
Certificate of Appreciation in relation to 13 and 14 April 1997 elections in SBWS); D761 (Letter of
Appointment from Jacques Paul Klein, Acting UNTAES Director, 2 June 1996).
3019 Petar Djukić, T. 17961-17963, 18107-18108.
3020 Petar Djukić, T. 17963-17964, 18170.
3021 Petar Djukić, T. 17964-17966, 18170-18171.
3022 P61 (Video of award ceremony at Kula with transcript), p. 11.
3023 P61 (Video of award ceremony at Kula with transcript), pp. 4-8.
3024 P2356 (Tape Recording of the 4 th Session of the Supreme Defence Council, 31 July 1992), p. 15.
3025 P2357 (Shorthand Minutes from the 5th Session of the Supreme Defence Council, 7 August 1992), pp. 1, 18-
19.
3026 P3195 (Series of Serbian MUP SDB documents relating to Nikola Pilipović), pp. 13-14 (Hand-written
autobiography by Nikola Pilipović, Tara, 4 December 1993).
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