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would at once give him keys to a family flat and promotion to the rank of General would
certainly follow. 3997
1961. Slobodan Lazarević, an officer of KOS (1968-1998) and of the 21st corps of the SVK
stationed in Topusko (1992-1995), 3998 testified that in late 1993 Simatović set up the Pauk
headquarters in Petrova Gora in the RSK for the Serbian Special Forces of the police. 3999
Mladen Karan and Aco Drača also testified that the Pauk military command was set up on
top of Petrova Gora in a JNA radio relay facility called Magarčevac. 4000 The Pauk military
command consisted of SVK officers, including General Mile Novaković and Čedomir Bulat,
and local SUP members from Glina and Vojnić. 4001 Lazarević testified that this headquarters
was 600-800 metres away from the second Pauk headquarters in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 4002 The
Serbian Special Forces were headed by Božović and Ulemek a.k.a. Legija, as well as their
superior Simatović, all of the SDB. 4003 Simatović was stationed in Petrova Gora, while the
other two were at Pauk in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 4004 Božović also had a headquarters in
Kladuša in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 4005 According to Lazarević, Novaković, although official
commander of Pauk, could not command Arkan’s Tigers, and Lazarević never saw
Novaković issue orders to units of the Serbian Special Forces. 4006 On a regular basis,
Lazarević observed how Arkan’s units arrived at a warehouse across from his house in the
RSK to get supplies. 4007
1962. The Trial Chamber will now consider the evidence in relation to forces involved in
Operation Pauk. Slobodan Lazarević testified that Arkan’s forces were deployed in a joint
command headquarters called “Pauk” in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 4008 Besides Arkan’s tigers (100
men), the Pauk unit also consisted of members of the 21st SVK corps (400 men), Fikret
3997 P382 (Communication No. 191-3 from Colonel Rade Rašeta, Main Staff Security Department SVK, 6
January 1995), pp. 1-2, 8.
3998 P224 (Slobodan Lazarević, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 29-31 October 2002), pp. 12315, 12317, 12319-
12320, 12326, 12340; Slobodan Lazarević, T. 3275-3276, 3280-3281, 3284.
3999 P224 (Slobodan Lazarević, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 29-31 October 2002), p. 12352; Slobodan
Lazarević, T. 3287-3289, 3295, 3327, 3334, 3337.
4000 Mladen Karan, T. 17704-17705, 17709, 17811; Aco Drača, T. 16811.
4001 Mladen Karan, T. 17705-17706, 17892.
4002 Slobodan Lazarević, T. 3295, 3327.
4003 P224 (Slobodan Lazarević, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 29-31 October 2002), p. 12426; Slobodan
Lazarević, T. 3297, 3310.
4004 P224 (Slobodan Lazarević, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 29-31 October 2002), p. 12426; Slobodan
Lazarević, T. 3406, 3408.
4005 Slobodan Lazarević, T. 3406, 3408-3409.
4006 P224 (Slobodan Lazarević, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 29-31 October 2002), p. 12427.
4007 P224 (Slobodan Lazarević, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 29-31 October 2002), pp. 12434-12435.
4008 P224 (Slobodan Lazarević, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 29-31 October 2002), p. 12356; Slobodan
Lazarević, T. 3295.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 692
30 May 2013