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with Frenki there. 4077 The witness personally met Frenki once in Petrova Gora during
Operation Pauk in 1994. 4078 The witness believed that during Operation Pauk Milorad Ulemek
had private telephone calls with Arkan over losses or wounded persons, requests for uniforms,
and requisitioning of materials. 4079 The witness testified that Milorad Ulemek would receive
instructions from RSK General Mile Novaković and passed them on to his troops. 4080
1978. The witness testified that after initial fighting at Velika Kladuša, Arkan’s men and the
Red Berets were sent to various training centres where they continued training members of
Fikret Abdić’s army, but did not directly participate in battles. “Frenki” had ordered that Red
Berets members would not directly participate in further battles, and the witness heard that the
reason was that it was difficult to justify in reports why Serbs from Serbia had died in a
Bosnian battlefield. Three persons were killed in the operations: a person called Jugoslav,
a.k.a. Jugo, and Colonels nicknamed “Mita” and “Kole”. 4081 Kole was a commander of “the
special police unit” stationed in the Erdut barracks. 4082 After breaking out of enemy
encirclement at Petrova Gora, Arkan’s men returned to Erdut, where they were given back
their identification papers which they had handed over before the commencement of
Operation Pauk. 4083
1979. Witness JF-027, a Croatian ethnic Serb and a former member of the SDG, 4084 also
testified about the SDG’s involvement in Operation Pauk, providing evidence which was in
essence consistent with that of Witness JF-035 above, about the SDG’s deployment and the
training given to Abdić’s forces. 4085 Regarding the time frame of the events, the witness
testified that Arkan gathered the SDG members in Belgrade in October or November
1994. 4086 He further added that during Operation Pauk, the SDG was in Bosnia-Herzegovina
“as part of the Red Berets”. They were divided into two tactical groups, both under the Pauk
4077 P494 (Witness JF-035, witness statement, 18 October 2000), p. 19; P496 (Witness JF-035, Slobodan
Milošević transcript, 22-23 October 2002), p. 12211.
4078 P494 (Witness JF-035, witness statement, 18 October 2000), p. 19; P496 (Witness JF-035, Slobodan
Milošević transcript, 22-23 October 2002), p. 12211; Witness JF-035, T. 5419, 5496.
4079 Witness JF-035, T. 5420.
4080 Witness JF-035, T. 5493.
4081 P494 (Witness JF-035, witness statement, 18 October 2000), p. 18; P496 (Witness JF-035, Slobodan
Milošević transcript, 22-23 October 2002), pp. 12199-12201, 12203-12204, 12293; P235 (Pauk Command
Operations Logbook, 16 November 1994-25 May 1995), pp. 13, 24.
4082 P494 (Witness JF-035, witness statement, 18 October 2000), p. 18; P496 (Witness JF-035, Slobodan
Milošević transcript, 22-23 October 2002), pp. 12199-12200.
4083 P494 (Witness JF-035, witness statement, 18 October 2000), p. 20; Witness JF-035, T. 5435.
4084 P1596 (Witness JF-027, witness statement, 27 February 2004), p. 1, para. 7; Witness JF-027, T. 8887, 8890,
8971.
4085 P1596 (Witness JF-027, witness statement, 27 February 2004), paras 11, 14-17, 19, 21; P1597 (Witness JF-
027, witness statement, 8 November 2010), p. 1; Witness JF-027, T. 8925, 8927-8929, 8932-8933.
4086 P1596 (Witness JF-027, witness statement, 27 February 2004), para. 11.
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