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which the Accused deployed the Unit to Doboj, for instance with regard to the selection of
Unit members for the operations or the briefings or instructions provided in relation thereto.
2322. As set out in chapter 6.3.3, the Trial Chamber did not find that the Accused personally
directed the Unit during the Bosanski Šamac and Doboj operations. There is no evidence that
either of the Accused instructed the Unit to commit crimes in Bosanski Šamac or Doboj. In
fact, there is no evidence that Stanišić provided any orders, instructions, or information to the
Unit in connection with either operation. Nor does the evidence establish that the Accused
otherwise influenced the manner in which the operations were to be conducted. During the
Bosanski Šamac operation, the Unit was subordinated to the JNA.
2323. Nonetheless, given their role vis-à-vis the Unit set out above and the scope of the
crimes, the Trial Chamber is satisfied that the Accused must have known that Unit members
committed crimes in Bosanski Šamac. Subsequently, in the awareness that Unit members had
committed crimes in Bosanski Šamac, the Accused organized the Unit’s involvement in the
Doboj operations. Although the Unit’s composition differed between the Bosanski Šamac and
Doboj operations, 4985 the Trial Chamber considers that, after the Bosanski Šamac crimes, it
may have been reasonably foreseeable to the Accused that Unit members would commit
crimes in Doboj. The Trial Chamber will further address this matter below.
2324. In determining what can be inferred from the Unit’s operations, the Trial Chamber has
further considered evidence indicating that Stanišić organized the involvement of the Unit in
various operations in which it cooperated with or was subordinate to others who may have
had the intent to further the alleged common criminal purpose. In this respect, the Trial
Chamber recalls its findings in relation to the Skelani operations in early 1993, that the Unit
cooperated with Sešelj’s Chetnik volunteers, the VRS, VJ, and Serbian PJM units, and the
evidence it reviewed suggesting that the Unit operated as part of Tactical Group 1 under the
command of General Mrkšić. 4986 Prior to these operations, in November 1992, Mladić had
4985 The Trial Chamber refers to its findings that during the Bosanski Šamac operations around April 1992, the
Unit was commanded by Dragan Đorđević (a.k.a. Crni) and the unit was composed partly of new members who
had been recruited and trained at the Pajzoš camp in early 1992. These members included former SRS volunteers
such as Slobodan Miljković (a.k.a. Lugar), Srećko Radovanović (a.k.a. Debeli), and Goran Simović (a.k.a.
Tralja). Evidence reviewed in relation to the Pajzoš camp in chapter 6.3.3 indicates that part of the Unit which
had operated in Bosanski Šamac was practically disbanded following the operations. Evidence reviewed in the
same chapter further indicates that Dragan Đorđević and Srećko Radovanović received positions in the VRS
Posavina Brigade following the Bosanski Šamac operations. The Trial Chamber further refers to its findings that
during the Doboj operations, in May and June 1992, the Unit was commanded by Radojica Božović and was
composed partly of new members who had been recruited and trained at the Doboj camp from April 1992. On
the basis of the evidence received, the Trial Chamber established that Aleksander Vuković (a.k.a. Vuk)
participated in both the Bosanski Šamac and Doboj operations.
4986 The Trial Chamber refers to chapter 6.3.3 in relation to the Skelani camp.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 834
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