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training, logistical support, and other substantial assistance or support for the Unit at the
Skelani camp. 3250 Finally, it will consider whether the Accused directed and organized the
training of other groups at the Skelani camp.
1645. In its Final Trial Brief, the Prosecution submits that in June or July 1992, Simatović
met with Serb municipal leaders in Eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina and told them that training
camps would be set up in the municipalities, run by Serbian special police units. 3251 Following
Simatović’s instructions, on 8 June 1992, Red Beret members (including Nikola Pupovac)
established a training camp at Skelani. Red Berets also established a Skelani Red Berets unit
(including Milenko Trifunović) under the command of and financed by Simatović. The
Skelani Red Berets unit trained local Serbs. 3252 The Skelani Red Berets, commanded by
Božović and Jovanović, participated in combat operations in eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina and
controlled the bridge between Skelani and Bajina Bašta. 3253
1646. The Trial Chamber has received the evidence of Miroslav Deronjić and Witness JF-
033, as well as further documentary evidence, in relation to the Skelani camp and Skelani
operations. The Trial Chamber will first review the evidence in relation to a meeting between
Franko Simatović and local municipal leaders and the presence of Unit members Nikola
Pupovac and Predrag Spasojević 3254 at a camp in Skelani in June or July 1992.
1647. Miroslav Deronjić, a Serb municipal leader from Bratunac, 3255 stated that in April
1992, a man called Predrag Spasojević came to Bratunac. He introduced himself as an official
of the SDB, and showed his ID to the witness. Later on, the witness learned that he was a
member of the Red Berets. 3256 In June or July 1992, he was invited by Dragan Trisić, the chief
of the TO in Bajina Bašta, to a TO meeting which took place in the TO premises in the office
of Jelić. The witness testified that Franko Simatović also attended the meeting. It was the first
time the witness met Simatović. 3257 The delegation from Skelani, the delegation from Zvornik
composed of Brano Grujić and Marko Pavlović, and the commander of the Višegrad Brigade
3250 Indictment, paras 3, 5, 15(c).
3251 Prosecution Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012, para. 254.
3252 Prosecution Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012, paras 255-256, 258.
3253 Prosecution Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012, paras 257-258.
3254 For the Trial Chamber’s findings on Nikola Pupovac and Predrag Spasojević being members of the Unit, see
chapters 6.3.2 and 6.3.3 in relation to the Ležimir camp, respectively.
3255 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.
3256 P2511 (Miroslav Deronjić, witness statement, 25 November 2003), para. 131.
3257 P2511 (Miroslav Deronjić, witness statement, 25 November 2003), para. 134.
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