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members showed MUP ID cards, and said that they were from the Serbian DB. 5093 Borivoje
Savić testified that in Belgrade on 16 May 1991, he met Arkan for the first time and Arkan
told him that Jovica Stanišić was his boss. 5094 At this point, I recall that Arkan was found to
be responsible for a great number of particularly gruesome crimes committed in the SBWS.
One could wonder: could Stanišić have known of Arkan’s mindset in mid-1991? A Serbian
DB report of 7 January 1991 leaves no doubt in this respect. Exhibit P1646 recounts a fivepage
detailed account of crimes personally committed by Arkan since 1966, including rape
(as early as 1967), armed robbery, abduction, and murder, and provides references to the coldblooded
nature in which Arkan committed one of the murders for which he was convicted.
The report includes a myriad of court cases in which Arkan was charged and convicted for
extremely serious crimes.
2391. I would emphasize that Savić was not the only one who testified about Stanišić’s close
relationship to Arkan. Borislav Bogunović testified that Arkan was subordinate to the Serbian
MUP and Stanišić. 5095 Exhibit P1075, an intelligence report of the VJ dated around May 1997,
provides that the SDG was one of the paramilitary units engaged in the territory of the RSK
and the Bosnian-Serb Republic from the beginning of the war in 1991, which was and
remained in direct contact with the Serbian DB and MUP or which was engaged under the
guise of special units of the DB or MUP. 5096 Witness JF-057 testified that an SDG member
nicknamed “Kale”, who worked with Arkan in the 1970s and 1980s, stated that before the war
started in 1991 Arkan was an SFRY DB agent working outside the SFRY.
Bosnia-Herzegovina
2392. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the operations in which the two Accused participated likewise
reveal their intent. One ought to review them by taking into consideration the six strategic
objectives defined by the Bosnian Serb authorities and written down on 12 May 1992, that is,
the separation of the Bosnian Serbs from the two other communities and the creation of
interconnected Serbian territories, including the Posavina Corridor or the Drina Corridor.
2393. I recall the Chamber’s findings that in both Bosanski Šamac and Doboj municipalities,
Unit members themselves committed crimes. The Trial Chamber made the following
findings: Members of the Unit committed murder, deportation, and forcible transfer in
5092 See chapters 6.4 and 6.5.
5093 See chapter 6.4.3 in relation to the SAO SBWS in 1991.
5094 See chapter 6.4.3 in relation to the general structure of the SDG.
5095 See chapter 6.4.3 in relation to the SAO SBWS in 1991.
5096 See chapter 6.4.3 in relation to the general structure of the SDG.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 861
30 May 2013