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1991. 4732 Hadžić and Kojić had informed the witness that they were looking for volunteers,
and encouraged him to go to SBWS as one. 4733 In Eastern Slavonia, the witness and four other
SJB officers, Badža, Trajković, Zavišić, and Simović a.k.a. Tutinac, joined Goran Hadžić and
16 policemen from “the special police unit in Belgrade”. 4734 Goran Hadžić decided that the
witness and the volunteers he went with to Eastern Slavonia, would be based in Erdut. 4735
Badža announced that he would be the TO commander, and that the volunteers would train
TO members and establish police stations. 4736 Zavišić, a PJM member, was in charge of
setting up police stations. 4737 Trajković became the deputy commander and was in charge of
training the local TO, and the witness became the chief of staff. 4738 The witness was tasked
with mapping out the exact locations and size of all forces throughout SBWS territory and
with training TO members including the locals in Borovo Selo, Laslovo, Tenja, Bogota,
Erdut, and Dalj. 4739 The training was conducted in Borovo Selo, Sevovi, Srepoja, Erdut, and
one other area, and consisted of basic infantry training and some specialist training, such as
clearing mines, and lasted 10-15 days. 4740
2240. Dušan Knežević, the Serb police commander in Ilok between November 1991 and
June 1992, 4741 testified that he volunteered to go to Croatia in September 1991 as part of the
regular police forces of the MUP Serbia participating in a special mission. 4742 A meeting was
held in the SUP Belgrade to brief the policemen on the situation in the Croatian part of the
Srem region and to specify the work that had to be done by the police forces. 4743 The
policemen were told that they were needed to protect the population and to prevent crimes in
the area. 4744 The witness was offered the special task of training policemen in this region. 4745
The meeting was attended by several people including Chief Anđić, the head of the Police
4732 D334 (Nebojša Bogunović, witness statement, 15 August 2011), para. 48.
4733 D334 (Nebojša Bogunović, witness statement, 15 August 2011), para. 47.
4734 D334 (Nebojša Bogunović, witness statement, 15 August 2011), paras 48, 50; Nebojša Bogunović, T. 13237.
4735 D334 (Nebojša Bogunović, witness statement, 15 August 2011), para. 50; Nebojša Bogunović, T. 13196.
4736 D334 (Nebojša Bogunović, witness statement, 15 August 2011), para. 50.
4737 D334 (Nebojša Bogunović, witness statement, 15 August 2011), paras 51, 58; Nebojša Bogunović, T. 13276.
4738 D334 (Nebojša Bogunović, witness statement, 15 August 2011), para. 51.
4739 D334 (Nebojša Bogunović, witness statement, 15 August 2011), paras 52-53.
4740 D334 (Nebojša Bogunović, witness statement, 15 August 2011), para. 53; Nebojša Bogunović, T. 13199-
13202.
4741 D371 (Dušan Knežević, witness statement, 17 August 2011), p.1, paras 1, 28, 32; Dušan Knežević, T. 13378,
13504; D377 (Report by Dušan Knežević about the situation in Pakrac valley and the request for ammunition for
the local population addressed to the assistant chief of the SJB Bucalo, 23 April 1991), p. 1.
4742 D371 (Dušan Knežević, witness statement, 17 August 2011), paras 4, 7; Dušan Knežević, T. 13375-13377,
13464.
4743 D371 (Dušan Knežević, witness statement, 17 August 2011), para. 5; Dušan Knežević, T. 13374-13375,
13463-13464.
4744 D371 (Dušan Knežević, witness statement, 17 August 2011), para. 5.
4745 D371 (Dušan Knežević, witness statement, 17 August 2011), para. 6; Dušan Knežević, T. 13376.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 800
30 May 2013