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1680. The Trial Chamber will finally consider the training of other forces at the Skelani
camp. Considering VRS reports, 3339 the Trial Chamber finds that members of the Unit trained
members of the VRS, including the Skelani Battalion, at the Skelani camp. The training
included exercises for physical condition and endurance, firing practice, and tactical exercises
and lasted for a period of between one and three months. Further recalling its findings in
relation to the Ležimir camp, the Trial Chamber finds that the Accused organized the training
of VRS members between June 1992 and early 1993.
Bratunac camp and Bratunac operations, early 1993
1681. The Trial Chamber now turns to the Bratunac camp and the Bratunac operations. The
Trial Chamber will consider whether the Accused directed the involvement of the Unit in
particular operations in and around Bratunac. 3340 The Trial Chamber will further consider
whether the Accused organized, supplied, financed, and supported the Unit’s involvement in
those particular operations. 3341 The Trial Chamber will also review whether the Accused
directed and organized the financing, training, logistical support, and other substantial
assistance or support for the Unit at the Bratunac camp. 3342 Finally, the Trial Chamber will
consider whether the Accused directed and organized the training of other groups at the
Bratunac camp.
1682. In its Final Trial Brief, the Prosecution submits that from early 1993, the Serbian MUP
DB sent members of the Red Berets to establish a camp at Bratunac, where they trained local
Serbs. 3343 The Serbian MUP financed the Bratunac Red Berets. 3344
1683. The Trial Chamber will now consider the presence of Unit members, including Vasilije
Mijović, 3345 in Bratunac from early 1993. Miroslav Deronjić, a Serb municipal leader from
Bratunac, 3346 stated that a Red Berets camp was established in Bratunac in early 1993. The
civilian authorities in Bratunac were not informed about its establishment, but they were
summoned to a meeting with Vuksić (the Commander of the Bratunac Brigade), Vasilije
3339 In evidence as exhibits P2104 and P3119.
3340 Indictment, para. 7.
3341 Indictment, para. 7.
3342 Indictment, paras 3, 5, 15(c).
3343 Prosecution Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012, paras 263-269; T. 20199.
3344 Prosecution Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012, para. 263.
3345 For the Trial Chamber’s findings on the membership in the Unit of Vasilije/Vaso Mijović, see chapter 6.3.3
in relation to the Brčko camp.
3346 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.
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