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security. 4195 Arkan stated that Radovan Karadžić had asked Badža for help in Trnovo, but that
Badža had responded that Serbia could not do much about it because of the Dayton peace
negotiations. Thereafter, in the witness’s presence, Milanović asked Arkan to help. The same
afternoon, Karadžić had called while the witness was in the office, and asked Arkan to send
some of the SDG to Trnovo and place them under the command of Dragomir Milošević, the
commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps. 4196 The witness was not aware that Frenki
Simatovic might have played a role in sending out the SDG to Trnovo. 4197 The witness visited
the SDG detachment in Trnovo and testified that the staff of the army under the command of
General Dragomir Milošević, and the Bosnian-Serb Republic MUP staff of Minister Tomislav
Kovač, were both situated in Pale. 4198 The witness testified that in the summer of 1995, a
small detachment of SDG members participated in combat on Mount Treskavica near Trnovo,
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, under the command of SDG Lieutenant Dragan Petrović, a.k.a.
Kajman. 4199
2015. Witness JF-057 testified that around June or July 1995, Arkan sent a group of up to
100 Tigers from Erdut to the Treskavica Mountains (near Sarajevo). 4200 Arkan told the
witness that Frenki called him in Erdut and arranged for the Tigers to participate in the
Treskavica operation. 4201 The SDG leaders for this operation were Captain Svetozar Pejović,
a.k.a. Peja, Mladen Šarac, and Dragan Petrović, a.k.a. Kajman, a retired SDG member. 4202
The SDG were accompanied in the Treskavica operation by a group of Serbian DB men led
by Vasa Mijović, who during the operation also visited the Belgrade SDG headquarters three
times to see how the Tigers were doing. 4203 The witness knew that Mijović was from the DB,
because the witness saw him and spoke to him on many occasions at the SDG Belgrade
4194 Borislav Pelević, T. 16319, 16321-16322, 16515.
4195 Borislav Pelević, T. 16338, 16423.
4196 Borislav Pelević, T. 16423-16424.
4197 Borislav Pelević, T. 16425.
4198 Borislav Pelević, T. 16426.
4199 Borislav Pelević, T. 16422-16425; D661 (Photograph of SDG unit sent to Trnovo, including Dragan
Petrović, being inspected by Arkan and Milan Milanović in Erdut).
4200 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 5; P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10
November 2002), p. 8; P1618 (Witness JF-057, Prior testimony), p. 19477; P1619 (Witness JF-057,
Memorandum of amendments made to prior statements and testimony, 22 November 2010), p. 1.
4201 P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10 November 2002), p. 8; Witness JF-057, T. 9366.
4202 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 5; P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10
November 2002), pp. 4, 8; Witness JF-057, T. 9367.
4203 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 5; P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10
November 2002), p. 8; P1618 (Witness JF-057, Prior testimony), pp. 19477-19478; Witness JF-057, T. 9372,
9491; P1620 (Charts of exhibits commented on by Witness JF-057, 22 November 2010), p. 3.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 716
30 May 2013