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300 men, and was stationed in a forest near Đeletovci, from May to October 1995. 4283 For
three months, 35 to 40 police officers (about 50 per cent of the Tovarnik police officers) were
sent there in monthly shifts to assist, as ordered by the SUP in Vukovar. 4284
2047. Witness JF-036, a Serb and DB official in the SAO SBWS, 4285 testified about the
presence of Vasilije Mijović’s unit in the area. The witness testified that in the aftermath of
Operation Storm, Colonel Vasilije Mijović and his JATD unit was sent to Baranja to put it
under the full control of the Serbian DB. 4286 The witness testified that Mijović controlled the
police in the region of Baranja and the access to Baranja over the Batina Bridge. 4287
2048. The Trial Chamber will now move to the evidence it has received in relation to the
command of these units. According to an interview conducted on 24 October 1995 by the
Intelligence Service with Lieutenant Colonel Milosav Gradinac, Chief of the VJ Novi Sad
Corps Command, the Novi Sad Corps had the following groups in its combat formations:
Arkan’s Guards, members of the Serbian MUP, Šešelj’s volunteers, and some unidentified
formations calling themselves “Kobre/Cobras” or “Skorpioni/Scorpions” and similar.
According to Gradinac, these groups started arriving in Eastern Slavonia and Baranja from
August 1995, were located in the rear and controlled the bridge over the Danube near Ilok,
refused to be placed under the VJ unified command, did not accept the command’s decisions,
and caused arguments with VJ members. Gradinac stated that Frenki - Franko Simatović from
the Serbian RDB Intelligence Service - had slapped a VJ Military Police Sergeant, because
the latter had asked Frenki to show his pass for the hotel in Vukovar where the Corps
command was located. Gradinac also mentioned Legija as belligerent and intolerant of VJ
members. According to Gradinac, VJ members from the RSK had been forcefully drafted by
the Serbian MUP, taken to Arkan’s group in Baranja, where they were “reformed” for ten
days, and then sent to the Novi Sad Corps. 4288
2049. The Trial Chamber has further reviewed Report P1080, a 7 September 1995 meeting
with collaborator “Trgovac”, which Reynaud Theunens, a military expert, 4289 considered,
4283 Witness JF-032, T. 4678-4679, 4683.
4284 Witness JF-032, T. 4678, 4680, 4785-4786.
4285 P342 (Witness JF-036, witness statement, 2 May 2001), pp. 1-2.
4286 P342 (Witness JF-036, witness statement, 2 May 2001), p. 15; Witness JF-036, T. 4194-4197.
4287 P342 (Witness JF-036, witness statement, 2 May 2001), p. 15.
4288 P1193 (Explanation on the situation in Eastern Slavonia and Baranja, interview with Lieutenant Colonel
Milosav Gradinac, 24 October 1995), pp. 1-3.
4289 Reynaud Theunens, T. 8049-8057; P1574 (Curriculum Vitae of Reynaud Theunens).
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