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not received sufficient evidence to conclude that the Accused Stanišić organized the
involvement of the SDG in Operation Pauk.
2011. As to the JATD a.k.a. the Red Berets, the Trial Chamber has not received any specific
evidence in relation to the organization of the unit’s involvement in Operation Pauk.
Nevertheless, having recalled its findings in chapter 6.3.2 that the JATD was a unit of the
Serbian MUP DB subordinate to the Accused at the relevant time, and in view of further
corroborative evidence in this respect, 4190 the Trial Chamber finds that the Accused organized
the involvement of the JATD a.k.a. the Red Berets in Operation Pauk.
(b) Trnovo/Treskavica June-July 1995
2012. In its Final Trial Brief, the Prosecution submits that in June and July 1995, while
contingents of the JATD and the SDG were still involved in Operation Pauk, the Accused
deployed the Skorpions and the SDG, under Mijović’s command, in joint operations with the
Bosnian-Serb Republic MUP and the VRS to the area around Trnovo and the Treskavica
mountains, where the Skorpions committed crimes. 4191 It further alleges that Vasilije Mijović,
a senior member of the JATD, commanded the Skorpions, the SDG, and Plavi in the
Treskavica operation. 4192
2013. The Trial Chamber has received evidence from numerous witnesses as well as through
documentary evidence in relation to the Skorpions and the SDG involvement in the
Treskavica/Trnovo operation. 4193 In this respect, the Trial Chamber first recalls its finding in
chapter 3.7.1, that in July 1995, approximately four or five kilometres from the Skorpions’
base in the Trnovo area, members of the Skorpions unit shot and killed six Muslim men, and
that Slobodan “Boca” Medić had ordered the Skorpions’ members to do so.
2014. The Trial Chamber will first consider the evidence concerning the involvement of the
SDG in the Trnovo operation. In this respect, the Trial Chamber has received evidence from
two witnesses, Borislav Pelević and Witness JF-057. Borislav Pelević, a member of the SDG
since 10 January 1992, 4194 testified that Arkan told him that he had met with Milan Milanović
and Radovan Stojičić, a.k.a. Badža, the Assistant Serbian MUP Minister in charge of public
4190 In particular in view of Simatović’s meetings with Božović on several occasions during the operation; the
evidence of Witnesss JF-027 according to which “Frenki” had ordered, at some point, that Red Berets members
would not directly participate in further battles, and the Intelligence Report according to which Stanišić stated
that he had provided enough forces to ensure the liberation of Velika Kladuša (exhibit P380).
4191 Prosecution Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012, paras 355, 365.
4192 Prosecution Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012, para. 360.
4193 For the Trial Chamber’s examination of the Defence submissions in relation to the credibility and reliability
of Witness JF-057, see chapter 6.4.5.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 715
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