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Mijović, Captain Dragiša Grujić, Captain Nikola Lončar, and Captain Đurica Banjac.
Ivanović also introduced Lieutenant Colonel Zvezdan Jovanović as one of the veterans. 2701
1443. The testimonies of witnesses Radivoje Mičić and Witness JF-095 are broadly
consistent regarding the establishment of the JATD in August 1993 and are corroborated in
this respect by a number of official Serbian MUP documents, including in particular the
requests for operative checks by Dragoslav Krsmanović and the proposal for assignment of
Radojica Božović. 2702 On this basis, the Trial Chamber finds that in August 1993, Jovica
Stanišić organized the formation of a unit of the Serbian DB known as the JATD. The
Simatović Defence argues that Minister Sokolović would have had the authority to establish
an organizational unit within the Serbian MUP. 2703 The Trial Chamber allows for the
reasonable possibility that, while Stanišić in fact decided to form the JATD, he cooperated
with Minister Sokolović to obtain a decision officially establishing the JATD as a unit within
the Serbian MUP.
1444. The evidence of Dejan Slišković regarding the composition of the JATD is consistent
with the notes of interview with one of the sources interviewed by the BIA commission (as set
out in Confidential Appendix C and the tabular summary of JATD posts 2704 and a number of
official Serbian MUP documents on assigning persons to the JATD, as well as with the
evidence regarding the 1997 Kula ceremony reviewed above. The Trial Chamber finds that
the JATD included Unit members Živojin Ivanović (known as Žika, Crnogorac), Radojica
Božović, Dragan Filipović (known as Major Filipović or Fića), Milan Radonjić (known as
Meda), Zoran Raić, Vaso Mijović, Nikola Lončar, Davor Subotić, Dragan Oluić, Njegoslav
Kušić, Slobodan Majstorović, Radomir Rašković, Nikola Pupovac, 2705 Đurica Banjac,
Milenko Milovanović, Zvezdan Jovanović, and Miomir Popović. 2706 The JATD further
included Dragoslav Krsmanović, Dragutin Stanojević, and Dejan Slišković. The JATD
consisted of active and reserve components. Radojica Božović, Živojin Ivanović, Milan
Radonjić, Dragan Filipović, Zoran Raić, Nikola Pupovac, Dragoslav Krsmanović, Vaso
Mijović, and Zvezdan Jovanović (among others) held command positions within the JATD.
2701 P61 (Video of award ceremony at Kula with transcript), pp. 4-8.
2702 These documents are in evidence as exhibits P2854, P3021, and P1655.
2703 Simatović Defence Final Trial Brief, 14 December 2012 (Confidential), paras 978-981, 994.
2704 These documents are in evidence as P973 and P974.
2705 The Trial Chamber understands Dejan Slišković’s evidence regarding Dragan Pupovac (also known as Pupe)
to refer to Unit member Nikola Pupovac (who was also known as Pupe).
2706 See chapters 6.3.2 and 6.3.2 in relation to the Ležimir, Brčko, Tara, and Doboj for the Trial Chamber’s
findings on these persons being members of the Unit.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 511
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