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1695. On 3 August 1992, Drago Nikolić reported to the Eastern Bosnia Corps Command,
concerning the operations by “Red Berets” units in the ranks of the VRS. Nikolić stated that
in July 1992, a group of about 20 officers who trained in camouflage uniforms, wore red
berets, and were armed exclusively with automatic rifles and other contemporary light
weapons, arrived in Bratunac and were commanded by Boško Nešković. 3374 According to the
report, upon their arrival, Nešković requested that he be allowed to form a camp to train new
members and was refused permission to do so, as a result of which he acted on his own
initiative and managed to attract a number of youths to join the group so that it grew to
approximately 60 members. 3375
1696. In a report entitled “The War History of the Reconnaissance Platoon the ‘Red Berets’”,
3rd infantry battalion commander Sreten Petrović wrote that a Red Berets unit was formed on
14 July 1992 in Bratunac, and was active in the area until 1993. 3376
1697. According to a 26 September 1994 report on combat readiness in the Bratunac
Brigade, Nešković’s Red Berets platoon was considered an ‘extra-establishment unit’. 3377 On
27 October 1994, the 1st Bratunac Light Infantry Brigade ordered Boško Nešković, the
Commander of the Red Berets platoon, to prepare the unit for combat. 3378 In a 5 April 1995
request to the Banja Luka MUP, Commander Goran Sarić of the Bijeljina Special Police
Brigade listed Nešković as a Red Berets member killed in an operation. 3379
1698. The Trial Chamber finally turns to the presence of Milenko Prodanović and the unit
referred to as the “Mungosi” linked to Prodanović in Bratunac. A Zvornik SJB report to the
MUP Bijeljina on 9 May 1994, stated that in September 1993, “after the unit of the MUP of
Serbia was disbanded”, Milenko Prodanović (a.k.a. Mungo) formed a 30-man Sabotage and
Reconnaissance platoon called the “Mungosi”, some members of which had previously been
part of Vasilije Mijović’s unit. 3380 The names of Milenko Prodanović and one of the members
of his unit, both of whom were mentioned in the 9 May 1994 Zvornik SJB report to the MUP
Bijeljina on problems with the Mungosi in the area of Bratunac (in evidence as exhibit P1082)
3374 P2104 (Report of OB Affairs Officer to the Eastern Bosnia Corps Command concerning operations by Red
Berets in the ranks of the VRS, signed by Staff Sergeant Drago Nikolić, 3 August 1992), p. 1.
3375 P2104 (Report of OB Affairs Officer to the Eastern Bosnia Corps Command concerning operations by Red
Berets in the ranks of the VRS, signed by Staff Sergeant Drago Nikolić, 3 August 1992), p. 1.
3376 D866 (War History of the Reconnaissance Platoon the Red Berets Report, Bratunac, 13 September 1995).
3377 D868 (Report on combat readiness in the Bratunac Brigade, 26 September 1994), p. 3.
3378 D861 (Order on the engagement of the Red Berets, 27 October 1994).
3379 D867 (Request to the Banja Luka MUP, 5 April 1995).
3380 P1082 (Report from SJB Zvornik addressing problems with the Mungosi, signed by SJB Chief Dragomir
Vasić, 9 May 1994).
Case No. IT-03-69-T 600
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