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Bosanski Šamac municipality and deportation and forcible transfer in Doboj municipality in
early 1992. 5097 The Accused directed and organized the formation of the Unit; organized its
involvement in a number of operations in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (including in
Bosanski Šamac and Doboj); and directed and organized its financing, logistical support, and
other substantial assistance or support, throughout the Indictment period. 5098 From at least
September 1991, the Accused were in command of the Unit and controlled its deployment and
training activities through leading Unit members who acted on their behalf and were
immediately subordinate to them. 5099 In this respect, I consider it particularly relevant that the
perpetrators of these crimes included prominent Unit members Dragan Đorđević and Radojica
Božović who had both been present at the Ležimir camp in late 1991, where Simatović told
Unit members that they should accept orders from nobody but himself or Stanišić. 5100 Insofar
as the Unit was temporarily subordinated to the JNA at the time of the commission of the
crimes in Bosanski Šamac, I consider it relevant that the JNA also committed crimes in
Bosanski Šamac. In my view, such subordination is indicative of the Accused’s cooperation
with other Serb forces that also committed crimes and does not diminish the Accused’s
control over the Unit. In this respect, I would also rely on the evidence of Witness JF-047 and
Witness JF-005 indicating that Simatović visited the Unit’s camps at Pajzoš and on Mount
Ozren.
2394. In both Bosanski Šamac and Doboj municipalities, the Accused organized the Unit’s
training of other groups who committed crimes. Specifically, in Bosanski Šamac, the Trial
Chamber has found that the Accused organized the training of Serb persons at the Unit’s
training camp at Pajzoš and that 18 local Serbs who had been trained at Ilok committed the
crime of deportation in Bosanski Šamac municipality. 5101 In relation to Doboj, the Trial
Chamber has found that, in 1992, the Accused organized the training of police units, JNA
units, and paramilitary groups known as Karaga’s men and the Miće group at the Unit’s
training camps at Mount Ozren and Vila in Doboj. This training included the use of human
shields. 5102
2395. The Unit (a group of bandits and mercenaries, according to JNA officers) was
deployed in Bosanski Šamac on 11 April 1992 by JNA helicopters and captured the town on
5097 I refer to the Trial Chamber’s findings in chapters 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.5.2.
5098 I refer to the Trial Chamber’s findings in relation to the Unit, including in chapters 6.3.2 and 6.3.3 in relation
to the Ležimir, Pajzoš, and Doboj camps.
5099 I refer to the Trial Chamber’s findings in 6.3.3 in relation to the Ležimir camp.
5100 I refer to the Trial Chamber’s findings in 6.3.3 in relation to the Ležimir camp.
5101 I refer to the Trial Chamber’s findings in 6.3.3 in relation to the Pajzoš camp and chapters 3.4.2 and 4.4.2.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 862
30 May 2013