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accordance with these instructions, Bogunović’s staff would take the names of young people
at a school in Novi Sad or Belgrade who wanted to return to the SAO SBWS and join the TO
and then provide this information to the army. 4705 The army would then take over, as the
young people could not go to the SAO SBWS without an army escort. The volunteers would
then be escorted to the various villages and incorporated into the TO. 4706 The witness testified
that Kojić could do nothing without the JNA’s approval, and had no independent authority to
give instructions to TO staff and personnel on the ground. 4707
2226. The Trial Chamber will now review further evidence it has received in relation to Ilija
Kojić and Radoslav Kostić. Witness JF-015 testified that Kojić was deputy Minister of
Interior of SAO SBWS. 4708 Witness JF-029, who was a high-ranking official in the SBWS
and RSK Ministry of Defence from 1991 to April 1996, 4709 testified that Ilija Kojić was
appointed as the first commander of the SBWS TO in 1991. 4710 Around October 1991, after
Kojić was wounded, Stojičić informed the witness that Kojić was an employee of the Serbian
MUP, which Kojić confirmed to the witness in 1995. 4711 In a statement taken by RS MUP
police crime administration on 15 February 2008, Ilija Kojić stated that he had worked as an
SDB operative from the end of military operations in 1991 to 2001, in which position he had
been subordinate to SDB head Jovica Stanišić. 4712 According to his personnel file, Kojić was
employed at the Serbian MUP Public Security Organ as of 1 November 1991 and on 19
March 1993, Jovica Stanišić signed a decision deploying him to the Serbian DB. 4713
4705 P553 (Borislav Bogunović, witness statement, 6 June 2003), paras 19, 21.
4706 P553 (Borislav Bogunović, witness statement, 6 June 2003), para. 19.
4707 P553 (Borislav Bogunović, witness statement, 6 June 2003), para. 56.
4708 P306 (Witness JF-015, witness statements), witness statement of 18 January 2001, para. 27.
4709 Witness JF-029, T. 10004-10007, 10083, 10089, 10156; P1665 (Pseudonym Sheet, Witness JF-029); P1668
(Table of documents reviewed by Witness JF-029 with comments, 7 December 2010), pp. 5, 8-9, 11; P1678
(Order appointing Witness to a position within the Ministry of Defence, signed by Goran Hadžić on behalf of
Ilija Kojić, 19 December 1991); P1685 (RSK Ministry of Defence Decision assigning Witness JF-029 a position,
signed by Minister Colonel Stojan Španović, 1 February 1993); P1689 (RSK Government Decision assigning
Witness JF-029 a position, signed by Prime Minister Borislav Mikelić, 6 July 1994,); P1692 (VJ Decision
assigning Witness JF-029 a position in the RSK Ministry of Defence, signed by officer Stevo Medaković, 30
October 1995); D212 (Transcript of testimony of Witness JF-029 before a local court on 24 October 2006), pp.
4, 15-16, 43.
4710 Witness JF-029, T. 10027, 10094; P1666 (Tables of people Witness JF-029 refers to and significant meetings
attended, 7 December 2010), pp. 3-5; D212 (Transcript of testimony of Witness JF-029 before a local court on
24 October 2006), p. 17.
4711 Witness JF-029, T. 10027-10028, 10033, 10036, 10094-10096, 10222; D212 (Transcript of testimony of
Witness JF-029 before a local court on 24 October 2006), pp. 17-18.
4712 P1698 (Signed statement by Ilija Kojić to RS MUP Police, 15 February 2008), p. 3.
4713 P325 (Series of Documents concerning Ilija Kojić), pp. 3, 5, 7-8.
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