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Ovuka, a Serb in charge of a distribution company, driving a company refrigerated truck away
from where the helicopter had landed and he thought that Ovuka had picked up weapons from
the helicopter. 4594 Josip Josipović, a Croat from the mixed village of Predore close to
Hrvatska Dubica in Kostajnica municipality, 4595 also stated that on one occasion, he saw a
JNA helicopter landing on a road near Predore and Serbs unloading weapons from the
helicopter, which were then put on trucks and civilian vehicles. 4596 He heard from his mother
and locals that the helicopter had previously come on several occasions. 4597 The trucks then
drove into the direction of Živaja, which was a Serb-populated area. The witness concluded
that the JNA armed the Serb TO and police. 4598
2172. Mile Grbić told Milan Babić that in August 1991, he and Zika Rakić, two Serbs from
Bosanski Novi, supplied weapons by motorway to Banija and Kordun that they had obtained
in Serbia through Stanišić. 4599 Babić did not know for whom these weapons were intended,
but stated that at the time the 7th Banija Division and other paramilitary groups had already
been in existence. At the end of July and in the beginning of August 1991, weapons were also
ordered through Colonel Dušan Smiljanić, Chief of security of the 10th Zagreb Corps; he
organized weapon deliveries to Krajina with the help of General Nikola Uzelac. 4600 In this
respect, the Trial Chamber recalls the 15 October 1994 letter by the SVK Colonel Dušan
Smiljanić to Mladić, about the arming of the Serbs in Krajina from the local depots between
March and October 1991, which it has reviewed in chapter 6.6.2.
2173. Mile Bosnić, an SDS regional board member and president of the SDS board in
Kordun, 4601 testified that from attending meetings of the SDS Main Board he was aware that
the Knin leadership obtained their weapons from the reserve police storage. 4602 It was
sometime in September 1991, that the weapons from the TO storages were distributed. 4603 The
police who remained in the police stations already had their own uniforms and weapons
4594 P1710 (Witness C-1211, witness statement, 9 November 2000), p. 4.
4595 P68 (Josip Josipović, Martić transcript, 6-7 April 2006), pp. 3293-3294, 3327; P73 (Official Note by Josip
Josipović, 1 April 1992), p. 1.
4596 P68 (Josip Josipović, Martić transcript, 6-7 April 2006), pp. 3298-3299, 3302-3303, 3341-3345, 3380-3381.
4597 P68 (Josip Josipović, Martić transcript, 6-7 April 2006), pp. 3303, 3341, 3343-3345.
4598 P68 (Josip Josipović, Martić transcript, 6-7 April 2006), pp. 3298-3299, 3304.
4599 P1877 (Milan Babić, Martić transcript, 15-17, 20-21 February, and 2-3, and 6 March 2006), pp. 1530-1531;
P1878 (Milan Babić, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 18-22, 25-26 November, and 2-4, 6, and 9 December 2002),
pp. 13098-13099.
4600 P1877 (Milan Babić, Martić transcript, 15-17, 20-21 February, and 2-3, and 6 March 2006), p. 1531-1532;
P1878 (Milan Babić, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 18-22, 25-26 November, and 2-4, 6, and 9 December 2002),
pp. 13274-13276; P1879 (Milan Babić, Krajišnik transcript, 2-4, and 7 June 2004), p. 3376.
4601 D313 (Mile Bosnić, witness statement, 5 July 2011), para. 2.
4602 D313 (Mile Bosnić, witness statement, 5 July 2011), para. 27.
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