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the Serbian MUP DB. 4235 The witness did not see or hear of Vaso Mijović when he was in
Pale. 4236
2023. The Trial Chamber has received further evidence in relation to Vasilije Mijović, which
it will now review. In his testimony before a Belgrade court in a criminal case against, inter
alia, Slobodan Medić, regarding the killing of several Muslims at Gordinjska Bara near
Trnovo, Tomislav Kovač, the former deputy Minister of the Interior of the Bosnian-Serb
Republic and commander of all Bosnian-Serb Republic police forces in 1995, stated that Vaso
Mijović, a member of the RSK police and the Serbian MUP, who he referred to as Mrgud
Milanović’s man, was the commander of the three companies which made up the Skorpions
unit. 4237 When Kovač gave orders to Milenko Kariška, commander of the police forces staff,
and to Ljubiša Borovčanin, deputy commander of the special unit, they would pass these
orders on to Vaso Mijović. 4238
2024. On 3 July 2006, in a domestic criminal case, Slobodan Medić, as one of the accused,
claimed that he did not know whether Vaso Mijović was his commander, that he never
received an order from him, and that he met him only once in Trnovo. Medić claimed that he
went to Trnovo with a task and after the completion thereof, he reported to Milan
Milanović. 4239
2025. Goran Stoparić testified that the name Mijović sounded familiar, but he did not know
who that person was, and was not sure whether Mijović was in Trnovo. 4240 Witness JF-024
did not know who Vaso Mijović was and did not know whether he had been in Trnovo during
the operation. 4241
2026. According to an unsigned and undated intelligence report, 4242 which military expert
witness Reynaud Theunens 4243 concluded, based on its content and origins, had been drafted
by a VJ Security Organs after May 1996, the unit commanded by Vasilije Mijović (Vaso) had
been active in the SAO SBWS from the beginning of the war in 1991, and was officially a
4235 Witness JF-029, T. 10053, 10060, 10182-10183.
4236 Witness JF-029, T. 10203-10205.
4237 P2966 (Transcript of testimony of Tomislav Kovač before a Belgrade court), pp. 1, 3-7, 9-10.
4238 P2966 (Transcript of testimony of Tomislav Kovač before a Belgrade court), p. 7.
4239 D213 (Transcript of a hearing of 3 July 2006 with questions being put by the chamber to accused Slobodan
Medić), pp. 1-2.
4240 Goran Stoparić, T. 10515-10516.
4241 Witness JF-024, T. 11140.
4242 P1061 (Report on paramilitary units, unsigned, undated).
4243 Reynaud Theunens, T. 8049-8057; P1574 (Curriculum Vitae of Reynaud Theunens).
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