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minutes of two meetings of the FRY Supreme Defence Council in relation to the Brčko camp,
which indicate that in mid-1992, Živojin Ivanović signed documents permitting twenty
persons in uniform to travel from Tikveš and Ilok.
1502. The Trial Chamber now turns to the evidence it has received regarding the status of
Radoslav Kostić, who according to Witness JF-036 introduced some of the members of a
special unit, billeted at the Beli Manastir SUP building, to the witness’s colleague, as
reviewed above. Witness JF-036 testified that the DB from Belgrade had appointed Radoslav
Kostić to the region of SAO SBWS and that he reported directly to Belgrade. 2881 The officers
of the DB Osijek were subordinate to Kostić. He also co-ordinated the chain of command
between the DB Beli Manastir and the DB in Sombor. 2882 The witness saw Kostić on several
occasions in Baranja in 1991 when he came to see an individual who worked in the same
office as the witness. 2883 According to the witness, Kostić occupied an intelligence gathering
role within the DB. 2884
1503. Witness JF-031, a Serb from Knin municipality, 2885 testified that sometime during
1991 he met Radoslav Kostić in Fruška Gora. Kostić had previously been a police chief in
Darda, and the witness believed him to be a Colonel in the DB. When Kostić introduced
himself to the witness, he was with Simatović and Stanišić, and was wearing the same
camouflage uniform as the members of the unit. 2886
1504. According to an unsigned and undated intelligence report, 2887 the DB and Serbian
MUP would, on 4 May 1996 during the laying of a wreath at the monument to Radoslav
Kostić at Kula, present various awards and decorations, including to Radoslav Kostić. 2888
1505. At the start of the 1997 Kula ceremony, Stanišić laid a wreath on a grave with the
inscription: Radoslav Kostić, 1948-1994. 2889 During the Kula ceremony, Simatović stated that
2881 P342 (Witness JF-036, witness statement, 2 May 2001), p. 7.
2882 P342 (Witness JF-036, witness statement, 2 May 2001), p. 7.
2883 Witness JF-036, T. 4192.
2884 P342 (Witness JF-036, witness statement, 2 May 2001), p. 7; Witness JF-032, T. 4271-4275, 4192-4193.
2885 P998 (Witness JF-031, witness statement, 1 June 2001), pp. 1-2.
2886 P998 (Witness JF-031, witness statement, 1 June 2001), p. 12.
2887 P1075 (Report on the formation of the JSO of the RDB of Serbia, unsigned, undated), which military expert
witness Reynaud Theunens concluded, based on its content and origins, had been drafted by a VJ Security
Organs Report after May 1996. See Reynaud Theunens, T. 8081-8083, 8233-8237; P1575 (Reynaud Theunens
expert report, 30 June 2007), p. 124.
2888 P1075 (Report on the formation of the JSO of the RDB of Serbia, unsigned, undated), pp. 5, 8-11.
2889 P61 (Video of award ceremony at Kula with transcript), p. 3.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 535
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