The former head of the Security Center of Herceg Novi, Milorad Ivanović, said that he is now completely sure that the telegram about the arrest of all conscripts from Bosnia and Herzegovina was signed by the then Minister of the Interior of Montenegro, Pavle Bulatović.
Answering the question of the judge Milenko Žižić why he changed his statement in relation to the statement he gave in the investigation, Ivanovic explained that he came to the new knowledge "by studying the case files".
"That's the difference in my statement from the investigation, when I allowed the possibility that (the telegram) was signed by Milisav Mića Marković, Assistant Minister of Police," Ivanović said.
In the continuation of the trial of the defendants for the deportation of Muslims and Serbs, the MUP telegram dated May 23, 1992, which was sent to all security centers and departments in Montenegro, was read.
Ivanović said that it was a teleprinter telegram that was not received by the Herceg Novi Security Center and that, as he said, it was not a document suitable for proof, because it was a police document.
His defense lawyer, Branislav Lutovac, added that such a document must be verified by the coder and signed by the minister in order to be valid as a document.
Speaking about the telegram dated May 17, 1992 from Sarajevo, sent by the authorities of Republika Srpska, Ivanovic said that it was sent by fax to the ministers of police of Montenegro and Serbia.
Serbia returned 5.000 conscripts
"According to such a telegram, Serbia acted and returned more than a thousand military conscripts and no one was prosecuted. I have information that Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina acted in the same way," Ivanović said.
Marković supplemented his statement, saying that Serbia has returned more than 5.000 conscripts.
Stating that the action of arresting Muslims and Serbs was carried out with the consent of the state prosecutor at the time, Ivanovic said that among the refugees who arrived from Bosnia and Herzegovina at that time, there were also a number of extremely oriented Muslims.
"I said that we are late for the events and that the war is on the threshold and stated that there are hostile actions by Croats and Muslims, that the JNA was in disarray and that the military judiciary should have been more rigorous"
He explained that the Security Service was at least familiar with that list on May 22, 05, which contained the names of extremists.
He recalled the attempted terrorist act in Herceg Novi on August 15, 1991, when, as he said, an attempt was made to plant a car full of explosives in the "Plaža" hotel.
"If I had killed 500 people when I was the chief of police in Herceg Novi, would anyone have asked if you, Milorad Ivanovic, were applying international conventions. These were extremists who wanted to blow up themselves and the citizens of Herceg Novi. "The power of God prevented them from doing so, so they made a mistake and activated the explosives and died. The two girls were then arrested at the bus station," explained Ivanovic.
The extremists have arrived
He stated that the extremists of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) from Čajnič also arrived in Montenegro at that time, describing that they were people of security interest who "you never know what they will do, and that's why they claimed themselves".
Commenting on the presented evidence, the accused Milisav Marković said that he had read somewhere that the police officer of the MUP of Montenegro, Branko Klauderović, had stated that a telegram had arrived from the Republic of Srpska to find and arrest 161 people.
"Kaluđerović stated that he did not order that they return, but only that persons of security interest be found and arrested, and that he be informed about it. He did not ask that they be returned, but that the Directorate for the Suppression of Crime be informed. No person with of that list has not been returned to BiH, as far as I know," said the accused Marković.
"I neither made nor signed that information, and it is about the actions of the MUP and JNA services. I don't speak in Ekavi - 'they made a mistake' and I write in Cyrillic, and I speak the Montenegrin language, Iekavi."
Ivanović denied that on May 24, 1992, he met with the then President of the Presidency of Montenegro, Momir Bulatović, in the premises of the 9th Military and Naval Sector in Kumbor.
"Me and Bulatović never met on Sunday, May 24, because it's a non-working day. It's a printing error. We met another day. He asked me to receive the fighters, which I received on May 26," added the former chief CB Herceg Novi.
Duško Bakrač, an operative of the SDB Herceg Novi, denied that he signed the information from July 1, 1992, related to the participation of the MUP in the apprehension action, because it was signed in Latin, and some words were written in cursive.
He didn't "make a mistake"
"I did not make that information, nor did I sign it, and it is about the actions of the MUP and JNA services. I don't speak in Ekavi - 'they made a mistake' and I write in Cyrillic, and I speak the Montenegrin language, Iekavi. This information is actually a photocopy of a fax, and we know that the fax fades after 15 days. SDB letters are never public and open, but are sent encrypted or via courier. We do not even send a fax directly to SDB Bar, but it is sent to the head office in Podgorica. This document does not have an effective number, nor printing house of the SDB," explained Bakrač.
Nine members of the MUP of Montenegro were accused of war crimes against the civilian population, that is, of the illegal resettlement of Muslims and Serbs in May 1992 from Montenegro by the authorities of the Republika Srpska.
At the trial, the minutes of the meeting of the heads of the MUP of Montenegro, from April 8, 1992, in Njivice, when the topic of terrorism was discussed, were also read.
Accused Boško Bojović, former head of the SDB, Radoje R. Radunović, head of the SDB sector in Herceg Novi, Ivanović, Bakrač, Marković, commander of the militia station in CB Herceg Novi Milorad D. Šljivančanin, head of the SDB in Ulcinj Božidar J. Stojović, head of 0B in Ulcinj Sreten Lj. Glendža and Branko Bujić, head of the CB Bar, were acquitted in the previous court proceedings of having committed the criminal offense of war crimes. The special council of judge Milenko Žižić acquitted the accused because, as members of the MUP of Montenegro, they were not members of the armed forces of the FRY and it cannot be accepted that they violated the rules of international law.
The trial continues on September 12.
The Democratic Alliance was for the creation of a great Albania
At the trial, the minutes of the meeting of the heads of the MUP of Montenegro, from April 8, 1992 in Njivice, when the topic of terrorism was discussed, were also read.
The meeting was reportedly attended by representatives of the SSUP, the MUP of Montenegro and Serbia, and the OB of the JNA.
The head of the SDB, Boško Bojović, according to that text, emphasized the increase in all forms of extremism and nationalism and wrote that it is realistic to expect an increase in all forms of hostile activity. He stated that the Service has come to know that the ultimate goal of Croatian, Albanian and Muslim extremists is the creation of political and territorial autonomy and that opposition parties, such as the Democratic Alliance, in collusion with the intelligence service of Albania, aim to create a greater Albania.
Ivanovic recalled what he said at that meeting.
"I said that we are late for the events and that the war is on the threshold and stated that there are hostile actions by Croats and Muslims, that the JNA was in disarray and that the military judiciary should have been more rigorous. I said that the full cooperation of the public services and State security. Even now I am proud of my sentences," Ivanovic said.
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