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as members of the Red Berets. 3278 The Trial Chamber has reviewed multiple payment lists of
the Serbian DB for units referred to as the “JPN” and the “JATD” for the period of August to
December 1993. Thirty-nine persons, who were also listed in the 15 May 1993 report as
persons from Skelani in the Red Berets, 3279 appear on these lists as beneficiaries. 3280
1655. The Trial Chamber now turns to the evidence received in relation to the presence of
Unit member Radojica Božović 3281 and the Unit’s participation in operations in and around
Skelani from January 1993. In this respect, the Trial Chamber will consider a number of
military reports.
1656. The 15 May 1993 report on the establishment of Red Berets in Skelani stated that after
the 16 January 1993 attack on Skelani, the unit left and went to Mount Tara for further
training, returning to Skelani in February 1993. During this time, the unit was under the
command of a person named Božović and consisted of 150 soldiers, 52 of whom were from
Skelani. The group controlled the bridge in Skelani. It also took part in combat operations at
Kragla Vode and the “mopping up” of the terrain around Rađenovice, where two soldiers
from the unit were killed. According to the report, all attempts to return the soldiers of this
unit to the Skelani Independent Battalion had failed. The unit frequently went to Tara to rest.
On 14 May 1993, after staying near Višegrad, the unit returned to Skelani and refused to
3278 P399 (Report of the Skelani Independent Battalion to the Drina Corps regarding the Establishment of the
Red Berets, or the Units for Special Purposes of the MUP of Serbia in Skelani, 15 May 1993), pp. 3-5.
3279 Milenko Trifunović, Aleksandar Radovanović, Pedrag Jovanović, Rade Jovanović, Nebojša Janković,
Radivoje Živanović, Petar Mitrović, Radan Sekulić, Branislav Medan, Jelko Ivanović, Milenko Savić, Staniša
Stanojević, Dragiša Živanović, Miko Milić, Dragan Sarić, Mirko Trifunović, Ratko Obrenović, Milija
Blagojević, Nenad Vasić, Obradin Balčaković, Novak Marjanović, Milija Jovanović, Zoran Obrenović, Radiša
Maksimović, Goran Matić, Jovan Mijatović, Dane Ivanović, Novica Petković, Milomir Ilić, Stojan Vasić,
Dragoljub Simić, Radenko Mijatović, Dragutin Jakovljević, Radoje Živanović, Mirko Milanović, Zoran Rakić,
Miroslav Maksimović, Vladimir Ivanović, and Zdravko Živanović.
3280 P157 (List of JPN members to be Paid Daily Allowances for 21 August to 10 September 1993), pp. 5-6;
P1484 (List of JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances for an unspecified date, presumably late 1993), pp.
4-5; P1485 (List of JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances for an unspecified date, presumably September
1993), pp. 13-14; P1490 (List of JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances for 26 August to 10 September
1993), pp. 9-10; P1491 (List of JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances for 9 to 30 September 1993), pp. 8-
9; P1493 (List of JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances for 11 to 30 September 1993), pp. 1-2; P1494
(List of JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances for 23 to 30 September 1993), pp. 9-10; P1498 (List of
JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances for 21 October to 10 November 1993), pp. 10-11; P1499 (List of
JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances for 21 October to 1 November 1993), pp. 5, 8; P1500 (List of
JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances for 28 October to 10 November 1993), pp. 11-12; P1501 (List of
JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances for 16 to 30 November 1993), p. 6; P1502 (List of JATD members
to be Paid Daily Allowances for 27 to 30 November 1993), pp. 8-9; P1503 (List of JATD members to be Paid
Daily Allowances for 1 to 31 December 1993), pp. 9-10; P1504 (List of JATD members to be Paid Daily
Allowances for 7 to 31 December 1993), pp. 3, 5; P1505 (List of JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances
for 19 to 26 December 1993), pp. 9-10; P1506 (List of JATD members to be Paid Daily Allowances for 27 to 31
December 1993), pp. 5-7.
3281 For the Trial Chamber’s finding that Radojica Božović was a member of the Unit, see chapter 6.3.2.
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