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Arkan needed DB approval for these radio links as the frequency had to be approved to avoid
interference with other frequencies. The witness testified such approval was required by law
by the Serbian MUP. 3839
1903. Witness C-015, a Serb from Croatia, 3840 testified that on one occasion in 1995, he saw
Stanišić at a Training Centre in Erdut where Stanišić landed with a helicopter. Stanišić was in
the company of Radovan Stojičić, a.k.a. Badža. 3841
1904. Gvozden Gagić, an employee of the MUP of Serbia in the early 1990s, 3842 testified
that the SDG was trained in Erdut by members of the SAJ unit. 3843 The SAJ was part of the
SJB of the Serbian MUP. 3844
1905. Witness JF-035 testified that the same evening in mid-August 1994, that Arkan’s men
were told that they would be involved in Operation Pauk, two buses were sent to take them
out of Belgrade to a place called Lipovačka Šuma, which was the Serbian DB logistics
base. 3845 The buses were driven by police officers wearing blue police camouflage uniforms.
Upon arrival in Lipovačka Šuma, there were a couple of Land Rover vehicles parked outside
ready for combat action – a mortar was mounted to one and a heavy machine-gun to another –
and more combat vehicles were parked within the building complex. Members of the Red
Berets were there already. 3846 Arkan’s men were still wearing civilian clothes, while the Red
Berets had green NATO-style camouflage uniforms and were equipped with first class
military equipment. Arkan’s men were sent to a restaurant to wait until equipment was loaded
into buses, and were also given some assault rifles; later, these rifles would be distributed by
registration numbers but at the time they were not listed at all. 3847 They waited there the entire
night as more soldiers or policemen arrived in buses. Finally, some five to six buses full of
people and equipment, and three to four trailer trucks full of camouflage combat vehicles and
3839 P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10 November 2002), p. 3; P1618 (Witness JF-057, prior
testimony), p. 19451.
3840 P2 (Witness C-015, witness statement, 13 May 1999), p. 2; P3 (Witness C-015, supplementary witness
statement, 24 January 2001), p 1.
3841 Witness C-015, T. 1624-1635.
3842 Gvozden Gagić, T. 17101-17102.
3843 Gvozden Gagić, T. 17122, 17136.
3844 Gvozden Gagić, T. 17137.
3845 P494 (Witness JF-035, witness statement, 18 October 2000), p. 17; P496 (Witness JF-035, Slobodan
Milošević transcript, 22-23 October 2002), p. 12193.
3846 P494 (Witness JF-035, witness statement, 18 October 2000), p. 17; Witness JF-035, T. 5475.
3847 P494 (Witness JF-035, witness statement, 18 October 2000), p. 17; P496 (Witness JF-035, Slobodan
Milošević transcript, 22-23 October 2002), p. 12193.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 669
30 May 2013