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1619. Witness JF-048, a former member of the Red Berets, 3195 testified that Tara, near
Bajina Bašta in Serbia, formerly was a military facility before it had been taken over by the
MUP and was a long-standing training centre for the Red Berets that continued to operate in
1995. 3196
1620. Witness JF-031, a Serb from Knin municipality, 3197 testified that his former colleagues
from the Red Berets told the witness about a camp at Bajina Bašta where Red Berets were
trained in 1992 and 1993. According to the witness, Simatović went to this camp often. 3198
The witness testified also that a person called Pupovac a.k.a. Pupe and a person called
Rašković were members of the Red Berets who went to the Tara camp. 3199
1621. Miroslav Deronjić, a Serb municipal leader from Bratunac, 3200 stated that he learned
that the Red Berets’ command for the area of Central Podrinje and Podrinje was located at the
Mount Tara in Omorika Hotel, where “Frenki” was often seen, and that he knew that Red
Berets frequently stayed at the Hotel Evropa in Bajina Bašta. 3201
1622. The Trial Chamber will now review documentary evidence indicating the presence of
Unit members Milenko Popović, Zvezdan Jovanović, Radojica Božović, and Nikola Pupovac
(a.k.a. Pupe), at Mount Tara. 3202
1623. In an undated hand-written autobiography, Milenko Popović wrote that in January
1993 he went to Tara where he participated in the fighting in the area of Srebrenica until the
end of April. 3203
1624. On 11 August 1999, Miomir Popović, employee of the Serbian MUP, on the premises
of the Section for Counter-Intelligence, Intelligence and Security of the JSO, Belgrade, stated
that in early April 1993, as a member of the reserve force of the Special Operations Unit of
the Serbian MUP DB, he received an order from commander Mijović to drive a detainee to
3195 P523 (Witness JF-048, witness statement, 6 May 2000), pp. 1-2, 5; P524 (Witness JF-048, Slobodan
Milošević transcript, 9 January 2003), p. 14576.
3196 P523 (Witness JF-048, witness statement, 6 May 2000), p. 6.
3197 P998 (Witness JF-031, witness statement, 1 June 2001), pp. 1-2.
3198 P998 (Witness JF-031, witness statement, 1 June 2001), p. 13.
3199 Witness JF-031, T. 7443-7445; P1001 (List of persons present at Fruška Gora).
3200 P2511 (Miroslav Deronjić, witness statement, 25 November 2003), paras 1-3, 46, 215, 231, p. 1; P2509
(Miroslav Deronjić, Milošević transcript, 26-27 November 2003), p. 29617, 29935, 29939, 29966; P2510
(Miroslav Deronjić, Krajišnik transcript, 12-13, 16, 18-19 February 2004), pp. 856, 858-859, 862-865, 867-868,
873, 909, 923, 1126, 1223.
3201 P2511 (Miroslav Deronjić, witness statement, 25 November 2003), para. 150.
3202 For the Trial Chamber’s findings on these persons’ membership in the Unit, see chapter 6.3.2 and 6.3.3 in
relation to the Mount Ozren and Vila camps.
3203 P3179 (Series of Serbian MUP SDB documents relating to Milenko Popović), p. 11 (Hand-written
autobiography, Milenko Popović).
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