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average. 3721 When nothing important was going on, they met about twice a month. Arkan
would always go to Frenki’s office for meetings. 3722 In Banja Luka, Arkan received orders by
phone from the Serbian MUP, specified by the witness to mean by “Frenki or anybody
else”. 3723 The VRS had started to retreat from the battlefield in the areas of Ključ and Sanski
Most, so Arkan’s Tigers with “some forces of General Talić, commander of the 1st Krajina
Corps” and the Banja Luka DB were sent to take over these positions and bolster the front
line. 3724 The Banja Luka operation included the areas of Sanski Most, Mrkonjić Grad, Banja
Luka, Prijedor, and Ključ. 3725 Witness JF-057 testified that when the Tigers went to Banja
Luka in September 1995, units composed of the Tigers, the Tigers military police, and DB
(Banja Luka and Serbia) were formed. 3726 The witness testified that Toma Kovač, police
minister of the Bosnian-Serb Republic, was also involved in the Banja Luka operation, in
Sanski Most. 3727 Mihajlo Ulemek accompanied the Tigers to Banja Luka as head of the Tigers
military police section. 3728 Saša Ašćerić, a.k.a. Asterix, an SDG member who had participated
in the Velika Kladuša operation, also participated in the Banja Luka operation in September
1995. 3729
1864. A note in Mladić’s notebook from a meeting on 22 September 1995 states that 300 of
Arkan’s men had arrived and been put into the Bosnian-Serb Republic MUP. Manojlo
Milovanović, Chief of the Main Staff of the VRS between May 1992 and 1996, 3730 testified
that these men arrived earlier in the month, not on the day of the meeting, and that at the
meeting he briefed Mladić on the history of events in Banja Luka. 3731 Milovanović testified
that around 16 September 1995, Arkan had come uninvited to Ključ municipality and joined
the VRS in combat. 3732 According to the witness, at a meeting also attended by Karadžić and
3721 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 4; P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10
November 2002), p.12; P1618 (Witness JF-057, prior testimony), pp. 19449-19450; P1619 (Witness JF-057,
Memorandum of amendments made to prior statements and testimony, 22 November 2010), p. 1; P1645 (map
annotated by witness).
3722 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 4; P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10
November 2002), p.12; P1618 (Witness JF-057, prior testimony), pp. 19449-19450; P1619 (Witness JF-057,
Memorandum of amendments made to prior statements and testimony, 22 November 2010), p. 1.
3723 Witness JF-057, T. 9380-9381.
3724 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 5; P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10
November 2002), pp. 8-9; P1618 (Witness JF-057, prior testimony), pp. 19515-19517.
3725 P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10 November 2002), pp. 5, 8; Witness JF-057, T. 9374; P1645
(map annotated by witness).
3726 P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10 November 2002), p. 9.
3727 Witness JF-057, T. 9481-9482.
3728 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 5.
3729 P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10 November 2002), p. 5.
3730 P375 (Curriculum vitae of witness Manojlo Milovanović), p. 2.
3731 Manojlo Milovanović, T. 15525; P2543 (Excerpt from Mladić's diary, 22 September 1995), p. 5.
3732 Manojlo Milovanović, T. 4374, 4497, 15525.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 654
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