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the Serbian DB headquarters in Belgrade with around 20 to 30 other recruits. 2669 Milenko
Milovanović handed the recruits written decisions signed by Jovica Stanišić, stating that they
were members of the Serbian DB. 2670 From the DB building, a JATD reserve officer
transported the recruits to a training centre near Barajevo, in the Lipovica forest. 2671 At the
camp, Krsmanović divided the recruits into an infantry and an artillery group. 2672 The artillery
recruits were relocated to camp Tara. 2673 The witness was made an infantry recruit, as was
Dragutin Stanojević. 2674 The witness received infantry, artillery, and diving training. 2675
Recruits were accommodated at the Lipovica forest camp and went to the Surčin airport for
infantry training and to the Banjica security centre for marksmanship training. 2676 The
Lipovica training centre also contained JATD offices used by Dragan Krsmanović, who was
frequently present there, as well as by Milan Radonjić, Major Filipović, and Zoran Raić, who
visited often. 2677 Krsmanović and Filipović also came to the recruits’ training at the Surčin
airport. Dragan Leštarić had his office at the Surčin airport. 2678 The witness’s training
instructors had ID cards identifying them as DB members. 2679
1437. Several of the unit’s instructors were former members of the Specijalna Antiterrostička
Jedinica of the Serbian MUP (referred to as the SAJ) which had been under the
command of Radovan Stojičić, also known as Badža, who worked in the Public Security
section of the Serbian MUP (which the Trial Chamber understands to be a separate section
from the DB). 2680 The instructors who transferred from the SAJ to the JATD included Dragan
Leštarić, Draško Suvara, Slobodan Stakić, Janko Kereš, Saša Jovanović, Dragan Jovanović
(also known as Bata), and Miroslav Kurak. 2681
2669 P440 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 14 September 2003), para. 3; P441 (Dejan Slišković, witness
statement, 8 April 2010), paras 13-14.
2670 P440 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 14 September 2003), paras 3, 5; P441 (Dejan Slišković, witness
statement, 8 April 2010), para. 14; Dejan Slišković, T. 5090-5091; P442 (Series of Documents Related to Dejan
Slišković), pp. 1-2 (Serbian MUP DB Decision on Employment of Dejan Slišković, 23 May 1994, signed by
Jovica Stanišić).
2671 P440 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 14 September 2003), para. 3; P441 (Dejan Slišković, witness
statement, 8 April 2010), paras 15, 17.
2672 P441 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 8 April 2010), para. 15; Dejan Slišković, T. 5097, 5099.
2673 P441 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 8 April 2010), para. 15.
2674 P441 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 8 April 2010), para. 15; P480 (Serbian MUP DB Official Note
from Interview with Miroslav Mirković, 20 March 1997).
2675 P440 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 14 September 2003), para. 3; Dejan Slišković, T. 5175-5176.
2676 P440 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 14 September 2003), para. 3; P441 (Dejan Slišković, witness
statement, 8 April 2010), para. 17; Dejan Slišković, T. 5175.
2677 P441 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 8 April 2010), para. 18; Dejan Slišković, T. 5093-5094.
2678 P441 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 8 April 2010), para. 19.
2679 P440 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 14 September 2003), para. 3.
2680 P440 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 14 September 2003), para. 3; P441 (Dejan Slišković, witness
statement, 8 April 2010), paras 16, 19-20; Dejan Slišković, T. 5097.
2681 P441 (Dejan Slišković, witness statement, 8 April 2010), paras 16, 20; Dejan Slišković, T. 5098, 5182-5184.
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