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1 Friday, 1 July 2011

2 [Open session]

3 [The accused entered court]

4 [The witness takes the stand]

5 --- Upon commencing at 9.04 a.m.

6 JUDGE KWON: Good morning, everyone.

7 Good morning, Mr. Davidovic.

8 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Good morning.

9 WITNESS: MILORAD DAVIDOVIC [Resumed]

10 [Witness answered through interpreter]

11 JUDGE KWON: Mr. Karadzic, 15 minutes for you.

12 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Thank you, Your Excellency.

13 Good morning. Good morning to everyone.

14 Cross-examination by Mr. Karadzic: [Continued]

15 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

16 Q. Good morning, Mr. Davidovic.

17 A. Good morning.

18 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Your Excellency, may I tender 3793?

19 I believe it will be of assistance to the Chamber. That's the transcript

20 of Mr. Davidovic's testimony in Belgrade.

21 JUDGE KWON: In its entirety?

22 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Yes, yes.

23 JUDGE KWON: Ms. Uertz-Retzlaff.

24 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: No objection, Your Honour.

25 JUDGE KWON: Yes, we'll admit it.

Page 15806

1 THE REGISTRAR: As Exhibit D1450, Your Honours.

2 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Thank you.

3 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

4 Q. We have these 15 minutes, Mr. Davidovic, so I'll try to shed

5 light on some things that remained unclear.

6 You mentioned some man called Pejo as one of the Arkan's men. Is

7 he one of the locals in Bosnia and Herzegovina or he came from outside,

8 from Serbia?

9 A. Even before he came to Bijeljina, he was a well-known criminal.

10 He was investigated by our operative staff. He used to live in Belgrade.

11 He was a member of Arkan's clan.

12 When the war began -- or, rather, during the preparations in

13 Erdut and on the Drina River, he was with Arkan all the time and later

14 became his deputy. He was later given the rank of colonel in the army,

15 led by Arkan, and later he was even given the rank of general.

16 Q. Was there a problem among the local population? Were there

17 people who were associated with Arkan?

18 A. Yes, there were, in Bijeljina, people who were associated with

19 Arkan. They even got killed, fighting with him. They had undergone

20 training and later became members of the Arkan's Guard, paramilitaries.

21 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] May I now call up 65 ter 13403.

22 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

23 Q. May I ask you - and there is also a translation - do you agree

24 that pursuant to some sort of report, a man responsible for embezzlement

25 is trying to leave and I'm intervening with General Tolimir to have him

Page 15807

1 arrested so that he couldn't leave?

2 A. I agree.

3 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Can this be admitted?

4 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] This is 15 March 1995.

5 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Yes. That's when he tried to

6 leave.

7 JUDGE KWON: Yes, this will be admitted.

8 THE REGISTRAR: Exhibit D1451, Your Honours.

9 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Thank you.

10 May I now have 1D3781.

11 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

12 Q. May I ask you to look at this. Is it the case that on

13 23rd September 1992 the ministry informs the prime minister and members

14 of the Presidency that the smuggling of weapons in SAO Herzegovina has

15 been stopped; these weapons were smuggled by Serbs, but our police

16 stopped them and arrested them? It's the police who wrote this, and the

17 names are Serb names?

18 A. Yes, 23rd September 1992.

19 Q. And the smugglers are Serbs, judging by the names?

20 A. Yes. They tried to sell those weapons, the weapons they had been

21 issued with in Republika Srpska. They transferred them across the Drina.

22 And there was even a trial of some people from Ugljevik in Serbia because

23 they tried to sell those weapons or re-sell those weapons in Kosovo.

24 Q. Thank you.

25 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Can this be admitted?

Page 15808

1 JUDGE KWON: Yes.

2 THE REGISTRAR: Exhibit D1452, Your Honours.

3 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] 1D3780, please.

4 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

5 Q. Do you agree that in this paper I inform the Main Staff on

6 27 January 1994 that representatives of the Republic of Herceg-Bosna will

7 hand over, at some check-point probably, these persons: Svetomir,

8 Sacira, Alen, Denis, all of them last name Brankovic? Is this a Muslim

9 family?

10 A. Yes.

11 Q. It says:

12 "On the same occasion, the sister and the brother-in-law of

13 Osman Karabegovic, Berka and Muharem Osmic from Mostar, will also be

14 handed over. Please give safe passage and complete security to these

15 persons on their way to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Pay special

16 attention to the Osmic married couple."

17 Who was Osman Karabegovic?

18 A. He fought in the war. I think he was even a war veteran from

19 World War II. He had been decorated. And I believe he was also the

20 president of the War Veterans Association.

21 Q. Just clarify for the interpreters.

22 A. It's a war veterans association from the Second World War.

23 Q. Although we had changed the system, we were a

24 non-Communist Party, we were not anti-Communist. I left the names of

25 some streets named after national heroes from World War II?

Page 15809

1 A. [No interpretation]

2 THE INTERPRETER: The interpreter did not catch the witness's

3 answer.

4 JUDGE KWON: We didn't hear your answer, Mr. Davidovic. Could

5 you repeat it.

6 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] This paper is something I support

7 with all my heart. It is an attempt, an effort, to protect the family of

8 Osman Karabegovic.

9 JUDGE KWON: Thank you. We'll mark this for identification.

10 THE REGISTRAR: As MFI D1453, Your Honours.

11 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Thank you.

12 Can we look at 1D3784.

13 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

14 Q. Do you agree that my adviser is addressing the Main Staff, on my

15 authority? He's, in fact, writing to the municipalities of Vogosca and

16 Ilijas that the Main Staff had informed me that without the consent of

17 the army, volunteers are being engaged, contrary to the Law on the Army,

18 and that I am asking to be urgently briefed?

19 A. Yes. Those are members of some political party that the local

20 authorities are trying to engage as volunteers, and you're trying to stop

21 it.

22 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Can this be admitted?

23 JUDGE KWON: Yes.

24 THE REGISTRAR: Exhibit D1454, Your Honours.

25 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Thank you.

Page 15810

1 Can we see 1D3787.

2 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

3 Q. This is a bulletin of daily incidents of the

4 Police Security Station in Bijeljina, dated 23rd October 1992.

5 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Can we see page 2 and the page

6 after so Mr. Davidovic can see to whom this was sent.

7 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

8 Q. Members of the Government of Republika Srpska, Jovo Miskin, the

9 same Jovo Miskin who supported you on behalf of the government in your

10 efforts?

11 A. I introduced this bulletin when I came, and there was a person in

12 charge of publishing it. And I wanted the local authorities informed on

13 a daily basis at first, and later also the government in Pale. This

14 bulletin covered all the incidents that happened in one day in Bijeljina.

15 Q. You see number 2. Two strangers came into the yard of some

16 Masic, Nurija, and drove away his tractor; investigation is underway.

17 A. That's correct. That was just reported.

18 Q. Next page.

19 But you accept it. You know what it is. It's all recorded. It

20 cannot be covered up because it's documented?

21 A. Yes. Wherever we have the full names, we record them, and the

22 Internal Affairs organs then took action. But we were not responsible

23 for monitoring what happened later.

24 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Can this be admitted?

25 JUDGE KWON: We'll mark it for identification.

Page 15811

1 THE REGISTRAR: MFI D1455, Your Honours.

2 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] 1D3788, please.

3 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

4 Q. 26 December 1992, just for you to see that the bulletin you

5 introduced continued. 26 December, page 2, to see who received this?

6 The corps command, garrison command, chief of the CSB, head of

7 the Public Security Station, chief of the National Security, and chief of

8 Crime Investigation.

9 A. Correct.

10 Q. Next page.

11 These are the topics you introduced: Crime, public order, and

12 peace. Some people had their documents checked. Some were brought into

13 custody.

14 Next page.

15 Traffic accidents, reprimands issued. There were no foreigners.

16 Next page.

17 What you introduced, in other words, continued?

18 A. Yes.

19 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Can this be admitted?

20 JUDGE KWON: This will be marked for identification.

21 THE REGISTRAR: As MFI D1456, Your Honours.

22 JUDGE KWON: You should come to your last question, Mr. Karadzic.

23 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] I have two more questions -- or,

24 rather, two more documents. Could I please have that extra time because

25 we actually did not start exactly at 9.00? It would be useful because it

Page 15812

1 really has to do with what the witness knows just before he came.

2 65 ter 583.

3 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

4 Q. Do you agree that this is the 6th of June, 1992, it's the Command

5 of the East Bosnia Corps, and they're issuing an order to rename

6 territorial defence staffs and TO units, thus part of a single

7 Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina; right?

8 A. Yes.

9 Q. Thank you.

10 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Can this be admitted?

11 JUDGE KWON: Exhibit D1457.

12 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] 65 ter 7402, another one. 7402.

13 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

14 Q. Is this the 3rd of June, also transformation of the guard into

15 units of the Eastern Bosnian Corps? And the order is issued to transform

16 the guard of Semberija-Majevica, and then, further on, one company to the

17 Bircanska Brigade, another one to the Bijeljina MAP? Is that the

18 Volunteer Guard of SAO Semberija that, on the basis of the

19 Territorial Defence --

20 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Actually, can we have the next

21 page, the last one.

22 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

23 Q. Mauzer, yes. The Eastern Bosnia Corps is asking for it to be

24 transformed and to become part of a single army; right?

25 A. Yes, that's right. This order did exist, but this order was

Page 15813

1 never carried out. Up until the end of the war, the guard did function.

2 It was totally autonomous, independent, and it never wanted to be under

3 the command of the Army of Republika Srpska. There were a great many

4 difficulties involved, and you know that General Mladic warned about that

5 too.

6 It is true that sometime in 1992, in the beginning of July, an

7 active-duty military person, a major by rank, was assigned to that unit

8 after all. Now, was Panta his name or nickname? I don't know.

9 Q. Pantelic?

10 A. Possibly. I don't know. I know that when he came there, he had

11 a talk at the corps command, and I happened to be there, when it was

12 indicated to him how this separation from the command and the Main Staff

13 would affect everything. This major actually got killed afterwards, and

14 the guard was never transformed into three, the Bircanska and the rest.

15 The guard functioned until the very end.

16 Q. Thank you. Do you remember that Mladic and I came, after some

17 crises had emerged, and I exerted pressure on the president of the

18 municipality, who was a good man except for his inclination towards these

19 territorial units, but Mauzer took his rank and returned him to the rank

20 of private? Have you heard of that?

21 A. I heard of it. I heard that he was degraded -- rather, that his

22 rank was taken away from him. But he didn't have a rank in the first

23 place. I know that these were problems. I know that there was a lot of

24 brazen behaviour there. At one point in time, there was a lack of

25 respect for your order to have him re-subordinated to the Army of

Page 15814

1 Republika Srpska.

2 Q. Thank you.

3 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Can this be admitted?

4 JUDGE KWON: Yes.

5 THE REGISTRAR: Exhibit D1458, Your Honours.

6 MR. KARADZIC: [Interpretation]

7 Q. Last question, Mr. Davidovic.

8 It was only yesterday that I heard from you that these 15 young

9 men who you had brought were that well trained. At the time, did we have

10 a leader, like yourself, and well-trained young men like them?

11 A. No. The unit that used to be the Special Unit within BH, I mean

12 the Republican MUP, before the war, it fell apart along ethnic lines, and

13 I think that about 10 persons who were ethnic Serbs separated from the

14 unit and moved to the school at Vraca. If you remember, when I first

15 came to Sarajevo, it had to do with an attempt to get that Special Unit

16 that was later led by Karisnik [as interpreted] or, further on, his

17 deputy, Repija. That is why I said at the very beginning why I didn't

18 want to take that unit in.

19 Actually, when this unit was established, these 10 young men were

20 supposed to be trained individually, with our assistance. Actually, each

21 one of them was supposed to train other people. So then, ultimately, a

22 unit was formed that existed of over 100 persons, on the basis of this

23 attitude we had taken. We wished to turn this unit into a

24 special-purposes unit. While I was in Sarajevo during that one month, we

25 did not manage to do that.

Page 15815

1 You had words of praise for the commanders, but my view is

2 something different. I think that we stopped only halfway. This unit

3 separated itself from the rest. They thought that they were well trained

4 and that they had nothing else to learn. I think that they were not

5 trained enough.

6 The ten persons that the special unit at Krtelj had, and so many

7 other good young men in different SUPs, those who knew how to shoot well,

8 those who were well versed in the martial arts, out of all of these men a

9 good special unit could have been formed that would have been the

10 counterpart of the unit we had in Belgrade at the SUP, and, actually, all

11 the special units in different units -- in different republics were based

12 on that original unit from the Federal SUP.

13 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Thank you. It is of utmost

14 interest to me to have these proceedings take place in public. I respect

15 witnesses, and all of those who respect me respect the witnesses, and I

16 am proud of my friends and supporters, and I have to say that no

17 witnesses so far have had any problems, and I believe that you will not

18 have any problems either, although our views may differ. In a way, these

19 are words of praise for my friends. It is only an enemy of mine that

20 could cause any unpleasantness to any witness.

21 Thank you, and I apologise for having squabbled with you over

22 certain things. Perhaps it was a lack of precision and then I wanted

23 things to be spelled out as clearly as possible.

24 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] Thank you, too, as well.

25 JUDGE KWON: Yes, Ms. Uertz-Retzlaff.

Page 15816

1 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Good morning, Your Honours, and thank you.

2 Re-examination by Ms. Uertz-Retzlaff

3 Q. Good morning, Mr. Davidovic.

4 Mr. Davidovic, during --

5 A. Good morning.

6 Q. Mr. Davidovic, during cross-examination, Mr. Karadzic put to you

7 a number of documents, mostly from 1994, related to the judiciary and the

8 prosecution of perpetrators. Do you recall that?

9 A. Yes. For the most part, it was 1994 and 1995.

10 Q. During the first day of cross-examination, at

11 transcript page 15678, Mr. Karadzic put to you a letter sent by the

12 President's Office on 7th August 1994 to the VRS Main Staff

13 Intelligence Department, asking them which steps had been taken in

14 relation to the case of Nenad Milicic, commander of the VRS Brod

15 Battalion. And Mr. Karadzic suggested to you that he had urged the

16 judicial organs to speed up the procedure, and you agreed that the

17 document showed an effort to establish legality.

18 Could we now have 65 ter 22020 brought up on the screen.

19 And as it is coming up: It is a document sent by the

20 VRS Main Staff Intelligence Department to the President's Office on

21 5th June 1994 informing them of tasks in co-operation with the RS MUP

22 State Security and Public Security departments in two specific cases.

23 Mr. Davidovic, the first case listed under number 1 in this

24 letter is a case of booby-trapping the car of Borivoje Djuric, president

25 of the Deputies' Club of the SDS in Brod, and that the RDB organs learned

Page 15817

1 about the involvement of the commander of the Brod Battalion of the

2 Army of the Republika Srpska, Nenad Milicic, aka Neso, his assistant, and

3 some other members in this sabotage act.

4 Do you see this, Mr. Davidovic?

5 A. Yes, I see it.

6 Q. Mr. Davidovic, given the name and the position of that crime,

7 would you be able to say whether this person was a Serb or a non-Serb?

8 A. I think it's a Serb.

9 Q. And if you now look at the second case mentioned in this

10 document - it's under number 2 - it relates to a crime committed in

11 Janja, and the victim is Reserve Police Officer Mirko Tomic, the owner of

12 a catering business. Do you know Mr. Tomic?

13 A. I cannot remember who that is. It does ring a bell, the name,

14 but at this moment I cannot remember.

15 Q. What would be his ethnic origin, if you can tell by looking at

16 his name?

17 A. I can conclude that it is Mirko Tomic, an ethnic Serb. You can

18 see that by his name. However, Mirko Tomic, before the war, did not have

19 any kind of restaurant. I can claim with certainty that he either got

20 it, or someone handed it over to him, or he usurped it. I cannot say.

21 He became the owner of that restaurant, and that is not right. There

22 were no Serb restaurants in Janja, and this is that period --

23 THE INTERPRETER: The interpreter did not understand the rest of

24 the sentence.

25 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF:

Page 15818

1 Q. Can you -- the interpreters missed -- couldn't get all your

2 answer. You said.

3 "... this is that period --"

4 And then they lost you. Could you complete that sentence,

5 please?

6 A. Yes. That is the period when that kind of thing could not happen

7 in Janja. There was not a single catering establishment in Janja that

8 was owned by the Serbs. This facility that is referred to as

9 Marko Tomic's must have been received or usurped from a Muslim, and now

10 this Mirko Tomic was running it. So it's quite clear.

11 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Thank you.

12 Your Honour, I would like to tender this exhibit.

13 JUDGE KWON: Yes.

14 THE REGISTRAR: Exhibit P2924, Your Honours.

15 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF:

16 Q. Mr. Davidovic, Mr. Karadzic also put to you, and here it's

17 transcript page 15681, a letter sent by him to the Supreme Military Court

18 and the supreme military prosecutor of the RS on the

19 6th of September, 1994 - and that's Exhibit D01422 - asking them to

20 explain why a trial involving 10 perpetrators, scheduled for the

21 26th of September, 1994, while the accused are free because the military

22 prosecutor failed to file a motion for detention measures, and it also

23 referred to the fact that seven of the perpetrators were kept in

24 detention only briefly and three of them only for 30 days.

25 Do you remember that you discussed this with Mr. Karadzic?

Page 15819

1 A. I cannot remember. This is a document that confirms that he did

2 this to see what the reasons are why some people are free and others are

3 not, why they were released before the investigation was completed. And

4 I think that that could be an answer.

5 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Yes. Can we please have 65 ter 23174 be

6 brought up on the screen.

7 Q. And as it is coming up: It is another letter signed by

8 Mr. Karadzic to the Supreme Military Court and the supreme military

9 prosecutor of the RS, of the 31st of August, 1994, in which Mr. Karadzic

10 stated that Radenko Renic had sent a letter to the President's office

11 concerning the murder of his son Vojin Nenic [sic], whose killers were

12 set free, still free, and were sending new threats to the family of the

13 killed person.

14 And if you look a little bit further down in the main paragraph

15 in this letter, Mr. Karadzic states further that the VRS Main Staff

16 Intelligence Sector had informed them that the murder had taken place on

17 5th July 1993 in the building of the Command of the 5th Battalion of the

18 2nd Brigade in Rijecani. And he refers also to the seven perpetrators

19 were released the same day and three of them held 30 days.

20 Mr. Davidovic, looking at the names of the victim and the father,

21 what would be the ethnicity of Ranko Nenic [sic] and his son

22 Vojin Nenic [sic]?

23 THE COURT REPORTER: Renic or Nenic?

24 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Nenic. Oh, sorry, Renic. I misspoke.

25 Renic. It says here Radenko Renic, at least in the version that I can

Page 15820

1 read. The original I cannot read whether it says "Renic" or ... it says

2 Renic. Renic, yes. Sorry. Renic.

3 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I cannot say for sure whether it's

4 a Serb or a Croat. There are names that appear among both ethnic groups,

5 so you cannot say for sure whether it's a Serb or a Croat name.

6 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Thank you.

7 Your Honour, I would like to tender this document.

8 JUDGE KWON: Mr. Davidovic, you told us that you do not

9 understand English. Is that correct?

10 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] No -- yes, that is correct.

11 JUDGE KWON: Would you kindly take off your headphones for a

12 moment.

13 Yes. Madam Uertz-Retzlaff, if you could tell us, in a brief

14 manner, how this document and the previous document are relevant to your

15 case.

16 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: The Prosecution's position is that the

17 accused was able to influence and to direct authorities to investigate or

18 prosecute. However, he chose to do that on a selective basis. And these

19 documents are supposed to show that this was, in fact, the case; that

20 when, here, for instance, the Serb is the victim, then there is

21 intervention. And when it is not, then it's different. That is just two

22 examples. As this is here a murder taking place in the Command of the

23 5th Battalion of the 2nd Brigade in Rijecani, there seems to be also the

24 indication that this is, again, a Serb victim. The selective actions

25 that he takes.

Page 15821

1 JUDGE KWON: Thank you, Ms. Uertz-Retzlaff.

2 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Can there be an answer?

3 JUDGE KWON: No. This is not a time for debate. We just wanted

4 to know where she was going. You'll have another time to respond to the

5 submission.

6 Yes, please go ahead.

7 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: These are only two -- the two examples that

8 I want to put in relation to this particular issue. And, Your Honour,

9 I --

10 JUDGE KWON: Thank you.

11 This will be admitted.

12 THE REGISTRAR: Exhibit P2925, Your Honours.

13 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF:

14 Q. The other topic that I would like to ask you about is the fact

15 that -- who the person Vojkan Djurkovic was and whether he was promoted.

16 At transcript pages 15712 to 15715, you discuss the promotion of

17 Vojkan Djurkovic, and you made a reference to the video-clip depicting an

18 award parade of Arkan's troop in Bijeljina, and you -- at page 15714, you

19 said that he was standing there at the head. And also during the

20 examination-in-chief, when we had a video, you mentioned his name.

21 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Can we please have Exhibit P02858 be played,

22 and only the first eight seconds.

23 Q. And, Mr. Davidovic, please say "stop" when you see the person by

24 the name of Vojkan Djurkovic.

25 JUDGE KWON: We need to switch to Sanction first and start again.

Page 15822

1 [Video-clip played]

2 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] He's the first one here, the first

3 one on our right-hand side. As he is walking, he's the first one on the

4 left.

5 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Yes.

6 Q. And this -- what is the uniform and the flag that he is basically

7 next to?

8 A. This is the flag of Arkan's unit, the Panthers, and he is wearing

9 a camouflage uniform with a beret. Officers wear red berets. Actually,

10 they're a dark-cherry colour. And soldiers wear olive-grey berets.

11 Actually, it can be seen even better in another situation, when they're

12 coming from the mosque. That's where you can see Vojkan as well.

13 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Can we move on and let it play a little bit

14 further.

15 And, please, again -- Your Honour, just for the record, so that

16 you can identify this particular still, it is at 00:00:06.5.

17 JUDGE KWON: Thank you.

18 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Can we just --

19 [Video-clip played]

20 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Please --

21 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] You can clearly see

22 Vojkan Djurkovic, very clearly.

23 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Yes, thank you.

24 JUDGE KWON: Just a second.

25 Yes. What was it, Mr. Karadzic?

Page 15823

1 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Let us avail ourselves of this

2 opportunity. May we ask Ms. Uertz-Retzlaff to identify the date, the

3 date when this happened, when this review took place, when this

4 video-clip was taken?

5 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I cannot say. I cannot say the

6 exact date. No chance of that. I can just confirm as I said earlier on,

7 when I watched this video, you can see the monument in front of the

8 municipality. That was placed there in 1993. When the unit is on the

9 other side, when it's moving from the courthouse to the municipality

10 building, then you can see the area where the mosque used to be, the one

11 that was destroyed in 1993. And I see that the grass is green, so this

12 review could be in 1994, but when exactly, I cannot say. You can see

13 that it's green, it's not winter-time, so it's summer-time, spring,

14 perhaps even autumn, because in the area where the mosque used to be,

15 where everything was destroyed, grass was planted, and the grass grew

16 out.

17 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] The Prosecution can say - thank

18 you - it is their exhibit and they should have that information.

19 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Yes. Indeed, we do have this information,

20 but I purposely didn't mention it because the witness didn't know that.

21 JUDGE KWON: The title says it was the 23rd of October, 1995.

22 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: It's actually the 26th, so -- I can't see it

23 now, but it should be the 26th of October, 1995, so a year later than the

24 witness thought.

25 JUDGE KWON: Thank you. Let us proceed.

Page 15824

1 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Yes.

2 Q. At transcript page 15730, Mr. Karadzic told you that his office

3 recorded every visit and every telephone call to him and that there was

4 no trace of any contact between Vojkan Djurkovic and Mr. Karadzic. Do

5 you remember this?

6 A. Yes, I remember him saying it.

7 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Can we please have 65 ter 23081 be brought

8 up in e-court. And, Your Honour, it is a document provided by Serbia on

9 the 14th of March, 2007, and there are no protective measures related to

10 this document.

11 JUDGE KWON: Thank you.

12 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF:

13 Q. And as it is coming up, looking at the first page: It is a

14 document dated 9 April 1994, forwarded to Frenki, as it says on top left.

15 This information mostly related to Western Slavonia.

16 Mr. Davidovic, who -- do you know who is Frenki, where this

17 document is forwarded to?

18 A. Well, Frenki Simatovic, assistant to Jovica Stanisic, an

19 individual who was charged directly with planning, directing of all

20 important matters, including logistics, for the Red Berets of the

21 Security Service in the Republic of Serbia. So Frenki was the one who

22 took care of everything, issued others, tours the area, and took care of

23 everything that was of relevance to the unit.

24 Q. Thank you.

25 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Can we please have the last page in the

Page 15825

1 B/C/S and page 5 in the English.

2 Q. Mr. Davidovic, the last paragraph in the document reads, and I

3 quote here:

4 "In Bijeljina, moving out of the Muslim families by the

5 Exchange State Commission, led by Vojislav Djurkovic, aka Puskar or

6 Vojka, still continues. However, the problem is that the said person

7 takes 300 to 500 German marks per head for departure."

8 And a line later there is a reference to the fact that he also

9 takes money from Serbs moving into Muslim houses.

10 Is this consistent with your own information?

11 A. Yes. I spoke about it. When Vojkan would pick up Muslims and

12 take them from their houses --

13 Q. Mr. Davidovic, we don't need to repeat this because you have

14 already told these details.

15 Just a bit further down, it says:

16 "However, the entire time there is information that Puskar is

17 acting under President Karadzic's orders and has to give him part of the

18 money. Also, allegedly, he gives part of the money to Arkan, as he uses

19 his people for the removes. That information wouldn't be significant if

20 it was not for such a long time in Bijeljina and Janja, and for sure it

21 was given also to the International Red Cross, as well as to the Muslims

22 in Tuzla and Sarajevo and thus in Geneva. One delegate in the Assembly

23 of the Republic of Serbia inquired about Puskar, his moving out of

24 Muslims, and asked whose man he was, Milosevic's or Karadzic's."

25 And the report is signed with the Greek letter sigma.

Page 15826

1 Mr. Davidovic, do you know what the sigma sign at the end of the

2 document stands for?

3 A. This is a code-sign that they used. Whenever you wrote "Sigma,"

4 it meant that the letter came from Frenki Simatovic and that he was the

5 one signing it. So this code-name was assigned to an individual so you

6 would know who would -- who signed it. I knew that it was

7 Frenki Simatovic who was behind the sigma sign. Why they used it, I

8 don't know.

9 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Your Honour, can this be admitted?

10 JUDGE KWON: But this information was supposed to be forwarded to

11 Frenki. So, according to your explanation, something signed by himself

12 is to be forwarded to Frenki. Could you expand on that, Mr. Davidovic?

13 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] When a letter is sent from Frenki,

14 there is always the sign there. Why, I don't know. I don't know who

15 assigned the code to him, but I always was aware of the fact that the

16 letter originated from him whenever "Sigma" was written on it. There was

17 one of his men - I think his name was Carli - down in Sarajevo, and I

18 asked him once because I saw a paper with the sign, and he said, It's

19 from the commander. Why this letter has his name at the top, I don't

20 know.

21 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Can the Defence give their response

22 to the request for admission of the document?

23 JUDGE KWON: Have you asked admission of this document,

24 Ms. Uertz-Retzlaff?

25 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Yes, I did ask the admission of the

Page 15827

1 document. And as I said before, it's a document provided by the

2 Republic of Serbia according to an RFI of the Prosecutor's Office, and it

3 was provided to us on the 14th of March, 2007.

4 JUDGE KWON: Yes, Mr. Karadzic. You're going to deal with --

5 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] I oppose the admission of the

6 document. I can only anticipate that this is a group that we managed to

7 destroy. I think Mr. Davidovic would know about this group. This

8 document is not a credible one. From what I know, the group was, in

9 fact, disbanded, dispersed, but we arrested the members of the group, and

10 I believe that they continued feigning [as interpreted] to exist. I'm

11 sure the gentleman here will know what I'm talking about.

12 MR. ROBINSON: Excuse me, Mr. President.

13 If I could also add: I think this is a situation where a

14 document would have so little weight that you should not admit it, as

15 opposed to admitting it and then taking some of these issues under

16 consideration as to weight, because, first of all, as you've already

17 pointed out, its question as to the authorship, basically unknown. It's

18 unlikely that Frenki would be writing to himself.

19 Secondly, the information that the Prosecution wants to elicit

20 from this document is also attributed to unknown individuals. It's

21 basically gossip. So the probative value of this information is very,

22 very low, and we ought to have the right to confront someone who actually

23 has knowledge of this.

24 There's no expectation that Mr. Davidovic would have ever seen

25 this document or had anything to do with it. It's just simply he's being

Page 15828

1 used as a convenient vehicle to refute something that was suggested to

2 him through a document that there's no expectation that he has any

3 knowledge of, and it denies us our right to confront the person with that

4 kind of information.

5 So when you add all those factors together, I think that the

6 probative value of this document is out-weighed by its prejudicial effect

7 and that it ought not to be admitted.

8 Thank you.

9 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Your Honour, can I also answer this.

10 And I would suggest that you, perhaps, not make, right now, a

11 decision, but, rather, wait until I show the next document to the

12 witness, because it is related and clarifies the group Sigma and who the

13 group Sigma is.

14 And I also want to mention that the witness has basically said

15 what is written here is exactly what he also says and noticed. I think

16 that's how it relates to the witness, as such.

17 But in as to the value of this document, I would suggest that you

18 perhaps let me show the next document and then you make your decision.

19 JUDGE KWON: Well, let's proceed, then, with the next one, the

20 next document.

21 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Yes, thank you.

22 Can we please have 65 ter 2315 -- 23015 on the screen. And it is

23 again from the Republic of Serbia, and it has a few redactions in there;

24 basically, the people signing it and the -- yeah, that's on the last

25 page, a few redactions.

Page 15829

1 And as it is coming up: It is a document from the

2 State Security Department -- from the State Security Department of the

3 Republic of Serbia, dated the 27th June, 1994. It discusses the problems

4 of the intelligence group with the pseudonym "Typhoon," and it says that

5 they had approached the 2nd Administration of the RDB of the

6 Republic of Serbia MUP for co-operation.

7 Can we have the three last paragraphs focused on. And in the

8 B/C/S it's actually spreading into the next page.

9 Q. It says here that:

10 "We let the members of the group known that we will accept the

11 group's initiative only under the conditions that they get approval from

12 the president of the Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadzic, and the minister

13 of interior, Mr. Stanisic."

14 And then it states further that this group has Karadzic and

15 Stanisic's approval that they will be incorporated into the system under

16 Franko Simatovic. They will have the pseudonym "Sigma."

17 Mr. Davidovic --

18 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] May I ask that the dates of these

19 documents be indicated? If Madam Uertz-Retzlaff thinks that one document

20 arises from the other, can we have the dates for both of the documents

21 and so we can see for ourselves?

22 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: I've actually mentioned the date. Here,

23 it's the 27th June 1994, and the previous one was --

24 JUDGE KWON: -- the 9th of April, 1994.

25 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Yes.

Page 15830

1 Q. And, Mr. Davidovic, do you know about a group, Typhoon, and, as

2 it says here, renamed then to "Sigma"? Do you know anything about such

3 intelligence groups providing information to Mr. Simatovic?

4 A. As far as I know, and I can't claim this with any certainty, the

5 Typhoon group was a group of individuals who were unhappy with certain

6 developments in Banja Luka, both in the military and civilian

7 authorities, and as a result they launched a revolt initiative asking for

8 the president of the municipality and some other individuals to step

9 down. They called themselves the Typhoon Group. Apparently, they wanted

10 some wrongs to be righted, and they pointed their fingers at individuals

11 in the army and civilian authorities for fraud and unlawful activities.

12 After a while, a compromise was reached. Was somebody arrested, was

13 somebody brought in? At any rate, things settled down.

14 I know that the group was active in Banja Luka and operated for a

15 while and suited up with the Army of Republika Srpska as well as

16 Mr. Karadzic and his followers from the government.

17 MS. UERTZ-RETZLAFF: Your Honour, I would like to have this

18 document as well admitted, and I think it has now shed more clarity on

19 Sigma.

20 JUDGE KWON: Yes, Mr. Robinson.

21 MR. ROBINSON: Yes, Mr. President.

22 This document, we don't have any objection to this being

23 admitted, but I think that it shows that the other document is even more

24 unreliable than we thought, because now it's being authored by some group

25 that's in opposition -- in political opposition to President Karadzic.

Page 15831

1 And I think it's a serious allegation that's contained in the other

2 document, that President Karadzic somehow was complicit in the extorting

3 of money from Muslims, and in order for anything like that to even be

4 remotely considered by this Trial Chamber, we ought to have the chance to

5 confront it. And this witness knows nothing about the source of that

6 information, and the document itself is extremely -- has such low weight

7 that it ought not to be admitted in this trial without someone here that

8 we can confront so that you could have some analysis of what weight to

9 give to that information.

10 Thank you.

11 JUDGE KWON: Just can I ask one question to Mr. Davidovic.

12 Pursuant to this document we are seeing now, the penultimate

13 sentence in English:

14 "The technical aspects of two-way communication were accordingly

15 studied, and the group will from now on contact us under the pseudonym

16 'Sigma'."

17 So "Sigma" was allegedly introduced/established in sometime June,

18 but do you know that "Sigma" was used before this time-period?

19 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] I don't know. I remember seeing

20 documents with that code, and I didn't know what it stood for. I was

21 told that this had to do with documents that were related to the

22 commander, Simatovic. I don't know the details of it. But I did have

23 occasion to see a document - I held it in my hands - belonging to a

24 member of the Red Berets which had this sign on it, and I didn't know

25 what it stood for.