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house in Golubić, outside which the weapons were distributed, became the headquarters of the
roadblocks movement. Branko Marjanović (SDS secretary), Bogoljub Popović (a retired JNA
colonel), and Stojko Bjelanović (another retired JNA colonel) met at the headquarters with
JNA officers, Martić, Babić, and Orlović. 4420 According to the witness, Martić stayed at the
headquarters around the clock during the first two weeks. 4421 He became the “commander of
the barricades of resistance”. 4422 After about two weeks, at the end of August or 1 September
1990, the headquarters were moved to a house in Oton Polje. 4423 In the latter part of
December 1990 or early 1991, the barricades were taken down or moved. 4424
2111. The Trial Chamber has further reviewed the evidence of Milan Babić, who was the
Prime Minister of the SAO Krajina, 4425 in relation to the raising of the barricades, the Golubić
headquarters and Milan Martić being the leader of the movement (as set out in part in chapter
6.3.2 in relation to the Golubić camp), which it considers consistent with the above evidence
of Witness JF-039.
2112. Mile Bosnić, an SDS regional board member and president of the SDS board in
Kordun, 4426 testified that in order to guard the civilian inhabitants of the villages from attacks
by Croatian police units or the ZNG, local people established night guards. 4427 The barricades
were erected spontaneously as a response to threats and attempts by the Croatian police forces
to come into the area. 4428 Only after the barricades in Knin had been established was the
matter discussed at a meeting of the SDS Main Board, but no course of action was decided
upon at that point in time. 4429 The witness testified that he passed through some of the
barricades erected around Knin on about 16 and 17 August 1990 and that these barricades
were manned by local people who wore civilian clothes and reserve police uniforms. Some of
these people held hunting rifles or pistols and some had automatic rifles which the witness
presumed came from the reserve police. 4430 There was no other source from which weapons
4420 P978 (Witness JF-039, witness statement, 12 September 2003), paras 14, 18; P977 (Witness JF-039, prior
testimony), p. 1966-1967.
4421 P977 (Witness JF-039, prior testimony), pp. 1972, 2079-2080.
4422 P977 (Witness JF-039, prior testimony), p. 1974.
4423 P978 (Witness JF-039, witness statement, 12 September 2003), para. 18; P977 (Witness JF-039, prior
testimony), pp. 1972, 2079, 2081-2082; Witness JF-039, T. 7303.
4424 P978 (Witness JF-039, witness statement, 12 September 2003), paras 25, 30; P977 (Witness JF-039, prior
testimony), pp. 2087-2089; Witness JF-039, T. 7307.
4425 P1878 (Milan Babić, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 18-22, 25-26 November, and 2-4, 6, and 9 December
2002), p. 12965; P1880 (Death Certificate of Milan Babić).
4426 D313 (Mile Bosnić, witness statement, 5 July 2011), para. 2.
4427 D313 (Mile Bosnić, witness statement, 5 July 2011), para. 4; Mile Bosnić, T. 12644-12645.
4428 Mile Bosnić, T. 12666.
4429 Mile Bosnić, T. 12646.
4430 D313 (Mile Bosnić, witness statement, 5 July 2011), para. 9.
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