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Administration in Belgrade, and Jovica Stanišić, though the latter did not participate in the
debate. 4746 The witness left for Dalj, in Erdut municipality, on 24 September 1991,
accompanied by an SJB platoon of around 30-40 Serbian MUP personnel. 4747 Veljko
Bogunović was the commander of the group, the witness was his deputy, and Ninko Tarbuk
was the assistant. 4748
2241. In respect of the MUP personnel that arrived to the area of Dalj, the Trial Chamber has
received evidence from several witnesses. Gvozden Gagić, an employee of the MUP of
Serbia in the early 1990s, 4749 testified that in late 1990, policemen who had been dismissed
from service in Croatia and other Republics were employed by the Minister of Interior
without going through all the normal employment procedures. 4750 In late September 1991,
some of these policemen joined one of the two volunteer units of the SJB in the MUP of
Serbia and were sent either to Knin or Dalj. 4751 The unit for Dalj left on 29 September
1991. 4752 Those who joined the unit, including the witness, were informed that they were
going to be a military police company of the Novi Sad Corps. The Dalj unit members were
commanded by Veljko Bogunović, who was under the command of the TO staff, meaning
Radovan Stojičić, a.k.a. Badža. 4753 Badža, in turn, was subordinated to the Novi Sad
Corps. 4754 In this respect, Witness JF-029 testified that Veljko Bogunović, a member of the
Serbian MUP, came to the SBWS area with about 100 former Serb policemen who had left
Croatia and were taken in by the Serbian MUP for deployment to the newly established SUPs
and police stations in the SBWS area. 4755 He further testified that Miodrag Zavišić, a member
of the Serbian MUP SJB, was in charge of establishing the SAO SBWS police forces in late
1991 and that he assisted Ilija Kojić and others in the Vukovar and Beli Manastir SUP. 4756
Nebojša Bogunović testified that after his group had arrived in Erdut some time after August
1991, a group of 40 police officer volunteers were sent by the Krajina MUP to set up and
provide equipment to police stations. This group was under Veljko Bogunović, Momčilo
4746 D371 (Dušan Knežević, witness statement, 17 August 2011), para. 5; Dušan Knežević, T. 13374-13375,
13464-13465.
4747 D371 (Dušan Knežević, witness statement, 17 August 2011), para. 7; Dušan Knežević, T. 13464.
4748 D371 (Dušan Knežević, witness statement, 17 August 2011), para. 8; Dušan Knežević, T. 13378-13379,
13466.
4749 Gvozden Gagić, T. 17101-17102.
4750 Gvozden Gagić, T. 17107-17108, 17127.
4751 Gvozden Gagić, T. 17121-17122.
4752 Gvozden Gagić, T. 17125.
4753 Gvozden Gagić, T. 17124, 17129-17130.
4754 Gvozden Gagić, T. 17134.
4755 Witness JF-029, T. 10032, 10094-10095, 10100.
4756 Witness JF-029, T. 10032, 10097.
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