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Serb from Knin municipality, 2313 indicating that a special unit of the Knin SUP under the
command of Dragan Karna were accommodated at Golubić prior to April 1991. 2314 Witness
JF-031’s evidence in this respect is further supported by that of Witness DST-043. 2315
1296. The Simatović Defence submits that training at the Golubić centre had commenced at
the end of 1990 and prior to the arrival of Simatović and Captain Dragan in April 1991, by
which time the Golubić centre had been established, fully equipped, and financed,. 2316 As set
out above, there is some evidence indicating that from August 1990 and prior to April 1991,
Milan Martić and other Serb police officers (including Dragan Karna) used the youth centre
facilities at Golubić for training and, on at least one occasion (in August 1990), for
distributing weapons. While the evidence on the duration and scale of training at Golubić
prior to April 1991 is unclear, the Trial Chamber does not consider in view of the remainder
of the evidence set out below, the submission that a training camp at the Golubić centre was
established, financed, and fully functioning prior to April 1991 to be a reasonable
interpretation of the evidence.
1297. Milan Babić testified that Martić introduced him to Jovica Stanišić in August 1990, in
a café near Knin, but Babić did not know what the purpose of Stanišić’s visit was. 2317 In the
absence of further information regarding this meeting, the Trial Chamber is unable to
determine whether the contact between Martić and Stanišić in August 1990 was related to the
establishment of the Golubić training centre in April 1991.
1298. The Trial Chamber will now review the evidence indicating that Martic, Stanišić, and
Simatović met in Belgrade in January 1991 and that work began on the reconstruction of
Golubić in February 1991.
1299. Witness JF-039, a Serb from Croatia, 2318 testified that in late January 1991 Martić
went to Belgrade to meet with Stanišić. 2319 The purpose of the visit was to receive equipment,
money, and support for expanding the barricades to take as many police stations as
2312 D322 (Witness DST-043, witness statement, 29 June 2011), paras 42, 44; Witness DST-043, T. 12932-
12933, 12940, 12943-12944, 12947-12948.
2313 P998 (Witness JF-031, witness statement, 1 June 2001), pp. 1-2.
2314 Witness JF-031, T. 7438-7440.
2315 Witness DST-043, T. 13014-13015
2316 Simatović Defence Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012 (Confidential), paras 36, 38-50, 52, 228, 234, 297-
301; T. 20319, 20329.
2317 P1878 (Milan Babić, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 18-22, 25-26 November, and 2-4, 6, and 9 December
2002), pp. 12932-12933.
2318 P978 (Witness JF-039, witness statement, 12 September 2003), p. 1, paras 1, 5, 23; P977 (Witness JF-039,
prior testimony), pp. 1958-1959.
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