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MUP special unit directly connected to the Serbian MUP RDB. 4244 Its membership varied,
ranging up to 300 soldiers. At the time of the report, part of the unit was at a farm near
Sombor, while most of the unit had been transferred from Baranja to the Serbian MUP Centre
in the Lipovačka Šuma forest. 4245
2027. On 19 July 1995, Vasilije Mijović, serving as the JATD Commander, informed the
Bosnian-Serb Republic MUP that the Serbian MUP JATD had been ordered to pull back from
combat operations in the Trnova Sector. 4246
2028. The Trial Chamber further recalls its finding in chapter 6.3.2 that Vasilije Mijović was
a member of, and held a commanding position within the JATD, a unit subordinate to the
Accused at the time.
2029. The Trial Chamber has received further documentary evidence in relation to the units
participating in the operation. On 24 June 1995, Miodrag Josipović, of the SJB Bratunac,
reported that ten persons wearing MUP Serbia Special Tasks Units (Frenki) uniforms, under
command of Miko Pilot, had on 23 June 1995, entered the Bosnian-Serb Republic and that
Miko Pilot had stated their task was to raise combat readiness at the Bratunac air base. 4247
Between 30 June and 3 July 1995, the Police Forces Staff of the MUP of the Bosnian-Serb
Republic in Pale, and Ljubiša Borovčanin of the Special Police Brigade Command in Trnovo,
both reported that two platoons of the Kajman, Plavi, and Škorpija police detachments of the
Serbian MUP had participated in attacks on the Trnovo front on 29 and 30 June 1995. 4248
According to Witness JF-057, “Kajman detachment” referred to Dragan Petrović’s SDG
unit. 4249 According to information on combat activities at the Trnovo front, on 27 June, and
between 6 and 10 July 1995, 350 members of the MUP forces of Bosnian-Serb Republic,
4244 Reynaud Theunens, T. 8201-8217; P1575 (Reynaud Theunens expert report, 30 June 2007), pp. 109, 130;
P1061 (Report on paramilitary units, unsigned, undated), p. 2.
4245 P1061 (Report on paramilitary units, unsigned, undated), p. 2.
4246 P1084 (Communication by Colonel Vasilije Mijović to the MUP regarding JATD’s pullout from Trnova,
unsigned, 19 July 1995).
4247 P1463 (Report to Zvornik Public Security Centre, Miodrag Josipović, 24 June 1995).
4248 P1453 (Summary information from the Trnovo front, 30 June 1995); P1451 (Dispatch on combat activities
on the Trnovo front on 29 June 1995, Ljubiša Borovčanin, 30 June 1995); P1452 (Dispatch on combat activities
on the Trnovo front on 30 June 1995, Ljubiša Borovčanin, 1 July 1995); P1455 (Dispatch on combat activities
on the Trnovo front on 2 July 1995, Ljubiša Borovčanin, 3 July 1995); P1626 (Dispatch on combat activities on
the Trnovo front , Ljubiša Borovčanin, 1 July1995); P1642 (Dispatch on combat activities on the Trnovo front,
Ljubiša Borovčanin, 29 June 1995); P1643 (Dispatch on combat activities on the Trnovo front, Ljubiša
Borovčanin, 1 July 1995).
4249 Witness JF-057, T. 9367-9368; P1626 (Bosnian-Serb Republic MUP Combat Report of 1 July1995 by
Deputy Commander Ljubiša Borovčanin); P1642 (Bosnian-Serb Republic MUP combat report of 29 June 1995
by Deputy Commander Ljubiša Borovčanin).
Case No. IT-03-69-T 721
30 May 2013