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2244. According to Witness JF-015, the meeting of the TO and police officials with Badža
was held on 5 or 6 August 1991. Radovan Stojičić introduced himself as a representative of
the Special Police from Serbia, and informed everybody that as of that moment on, the TO
was in charge of all civil and military matters in the region, and that he was sent from
Belgrade as the Commander of the TO with Miodrag Zavišić, a.k.a. Zaviša, as his deputy. 4769
According to the witness, from that moment, all the powers were transferred to the
commander and deputy commander of the TO staff. 4770
2245. The Trial Chamber will now move to the evidence on arming and equipping the SBWS
forces. Witness JF-035, a Serb from Bosnia-Herzegovina, 4771 testified that “people who were
guarding the area” told him that weapons were brought to Borovo Selo across the Danube
River by persons of the special police of the Novi Sad MUP. 4772 Already in April 1991
persons from the Serbian DB brought weapons by boat across the Danube to the Okonja
house in Grac, in the area of Borovo Selo, as they did not want to be seen in the village of
Borovo Selo itself. People from the village of Borovo Selo subsequently distributed these
weapons to Borovo Selo, Trpinja, Bijelo Brdo, Dalj and other villages. 4773
2246. Witness JF-030, a former Serb MUP officer, 4774 testified that already around 28 July
1991, they received a lot of weapons and ammunition from Novi Sad. The witness saw the
weapons and ammunition come from Vajska (Serbian side) through Skela to Borovo Selo. He
learned from Kojić that Mihalj Kertes had sent the weapons. 4775 In August 1991, while in
Borovo Selo, the witness went with Kojić, Bratso Arsić (TO member), Dragan Lazić, and
Dušan Bosnac (Kojić’s bodyguard) to the DB office in Novi Sad. 4776 Kojić went to see Kertes
inside, after which they came out and Kertes instructed the witness and others to collect the
weapons and ammunition from the Police/TO warehouse in Novi Sad, and said that he would
4769 P306 (Witness JF-015, witness statements), witness statement of 18 January 2001, paras 26, 62; Witness JF-
015, T. 4028-4029; P319 (Photograph described by Witness JF-015 in para. 62 of witness statement of 18
January 2001).
4770 P306 (Witness JF-015, witness statements), witness statement of 18 January 2001, para. 27, proofing note of
11 February 2008, para. 6; Witness JF-015, T. 4029.
4771 P494 (Witness JF-035, witness statement, 18 October 2000), p. 2; P495 (Witness JF-035, supplemental
witness statement, 6 May 2001), p. 1; P496 (Witness JF-035, Slobodan Milošević transcript, 22-23 October
2002), p. 12231.
4772 P494 (Witness JF-035, witness statement, 18 October 2000), p. 3; P496 (Witness JF-035, Slobodan
Milošević transcript, 22-23 October 2002), p. 12264; Witness JF-035, T. 5396, 5444-5446.
4773 P494 (Witness JF-035, witness statement, 18 October 2000), p. 3.
4774 P2091 (Witness JF-030, witness statement, 21 August 2003), p. 1, paras 4, 37.
4775 P2091 (Witness JF-030, witness statement, 21 August 2003), para. 9; P2092 (Witness JF-030, proofing
notes, 14 September 2009), p. 1.
4776 P2091 (Witness JF-030, witness statement, 21 August 2003), paras 12, 37.
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