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Accused, on the other hand. The Trial Chamber will therefore not further consider these
groups.
Operation Pauk, November 1994-August 1995
1707. The Trial Chamber has addressed the role of the Accused in organising and directing
the involvement of, and supporting and supplying the JATD in the Pauk operation in chapters
6.5.4 and 6.5.5.
The Bilje camp, April 1995
1708. The Trial Chamber now turns to the Bilje camp in 1995. The Trial Chamber will
review whether the Accused directed and organized the financing, training, logistical support,
and other substantial assistance or support for the JATD at a camp in Bilje in 1995. The Trial
Chamber will also consider whether the Accused directed and organized the training of other
groups at this camp.
1709. In its Final Trial Brief, the Prosecution submits that from April 1995, the Red Berets,
under the command of Mijović, trained recruits and SVK members at the Bilje camp in
Baranja. 3394 Simatović approved material, technical equipment, salaries, and daily allowances
for the Bilje camp. 3395
1710. Witness JF-036, a Serb and DB official in the SAO SBWS, 3396 testified that Vasilije
Mijović came to the area of Baranja in mid-1995. 3397 Mijović commanded a JATD unit with
training centres in the region and headquarters in Bilje. 3398 The Trial Chamber notes that in
chapter 6.5.3 it considered the testimony of Witness JF-036 that Vasilije Mijović was sent to
Baranja by the Belgrade DB to establish DB control over the region. In a diagram prepared by
the witness showing the links between the MUP of Serbia and the RSK in the years 1993-
1996, the JATD in Bilje and its commander Vasilije Mijović are portrayed as directly
subordinated to the Serbian DB and Jovica Stanišić. 3399 According to the witness, the JATD
was deployed to Baranja in order to train and recruit men for military service, as well as to
prevent the local population from leaving following the Croatian Operation Storm. 3400 At a
graduating ceremony for the recruits, the witness had personally met Vasilije Mijović who
3394 Prosecution Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012, para. 367.
3395 Prosecution Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012, para. 367.
3396 P342 (Witness JF-036, witness statement, 2 May 2001), pp. 1-2.
3397 Witness JF-036, T. 4194.
3398 P342 (Witness JF-036, witness statement, 2 May 2001), p. 15; Witness JF-036, T. 4195; P341 (Pseudonym
sheet for witness JF-036), p. 1.
3399 P342 (Witness JF-036, witness statement, 2 May 2001), pp. 16-17, 21.
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