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Chamber observes that after its formal establishment, the SAO Krajina Police received arms
from the TO and JNA depots in the Krajina, and that as of September 1991 until sometime in
1992, the JNA/VJ supplied weapons to the SAO Krajina Police. In its Final Trial Brief, the
Prosecution submits, citing the report on the distribution of weaponry to the Krajina reviewed
above, 4671 that the Serbian DB was in a position to influence the arming activities of the
JNA. 4672 The Trial Chamber recalls its discussion in chapter 3.1.7 in relation to Glina and
Struga on the authenticity of this document, but considers that it has not received any
evidence that Simatović or the Serbian DB stopped or in any other way influenced the
distribution of weapons by JNA/VJ in the Krajina.
2208. Consequently, in view of its finding recalled above on the Accused’s role in the arming
of the SAO Krajina Police, the Trial Chamber finds that the Accused directed and organized
logistical support in the form of weapons for the SAO Krajina Police between December 1990
and May or June 1991.
2209. In relation to the SAO Krajina TO, considering the evidence before it, the Trial
Chamber observes that the SAO Krajina TO received weapons from the JNA and the Serbian
TO warehouses and that it was also armed by the (S)FRY MoD through the JNA and later the
VJ.
2210. Furthermore, based on the evidence of Witness B-179 and the documentary sources
reviewed above, the Trial Chamber finds that the Association of Serbs and Emigrants of
Serbia transported weapons from the JNA warehouses in Bubanj Potok to the SAO Krajina
TO. The Association often used Serbian MUP trucks. Jovica Stanišić, Milan Prodanić,
Mikhael Kertes, and Tepavčević met daily with members of the Association to review
information from the frontline. Following such meetings, Prodanić, advisor to the head of the
DB and later head of the 8th Administration of the DB, went to a military warehouse in
Bubanj Potok, where he informed Boro Stanišić about the orders regarding the delivery of
weapons, after which trucks loaded with weapons and ammunitions were dispatched to
Croatia. Witness B-179 testified about the events which occurred in the period of 1991 to
1993. In the context of the Adjudicated Facts and the evidence reviewed, and having further
considered the evidence of Witness JF-029 that in accordance with a UN Security Council
April 1992), D682 (An instruction for issuing ammunition to the Okučani MUP station, issued by the Command
of the 2nd Military District Command to the 530th Logistic Base, dated 25 April 1992), D1429 (Stenographic
notes of the talks between members of the FRY Presidency and RSK representatives, 3 January 1992), and the
evidence of Witness DST-043 and Mile Bosnić.
4671 P2577 (Report in relation to events in SAO Krajina around 28 July 1991).
Case No. IT-03-69-T 789
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