Perisic 
Momcilo Perisic
News 78
THE HAGUE | 01.10.2010.
A BILLION DOLLAR FOR WARS IN WHICH SERBIA DIDN’T PARTICIPATE
The prosecution has sought to tender into evidence against General Perisic nine excerpts from Ratko Mladic’s diaries. According to the prosecution, the excerpts confirm that the former chief of the VJ General Staff provided personnel, logistic, financial and other support to the Serb armies in Bosnia and Krajina. General Perisic thus contributed to their crimes in Sarajevo, Zagreb and Srebrenica, the prosecution alleges
THE HAGUE | 23.09.2010.
VJ INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS IN SREBRENICA
Completing the cross-examination of General Sinisa Borovic, the prosecutor was striving to prove that General Momcilo Perisic had to have known about the crimes in Srebrenica but did nothing to prevent or punish them. The prosecutor contends that the information could have come from the VJ intelligence officers on temporary transfer in the VRS in the summer of 1995
THE HAGUE | 20.09.2010.
‘NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE’ WITH GENERAL MLADIC
Sinisa Borovic, former chef de cabinet of the former chief of the VJ General Staff Momcilo Perisic, described his first encounter with General Mladic as ‘a negative experience’. Mladic ‘didn’t listen’ to Perisic and behaved ‘as if he were senior’, the witness recounted
THE HAGUE | 10.09.2010.
‘RENT-A-TANK’
At General Momcilo Perisic’s trial, Rajko Petrovic, an officer in the Serbian Army, talked about the ‘absurd’ sources of financing of the VRS that had nothing to do with the budget. Businessmen who wanted to avoid military service were a source of funds in the form of ‘donations’ to the army, Petrovic said. Money also came from the Bosnian Croats who ‘rented heavy artillery’ from Serbs
THE HAGUE | 06.09.2010.
MILITARY PROPERTY: WHOM DID IT BELONG TO?
Testifying in defense of General Perisic, General Kadijevic claims that military equipment belonged to the federal government, not the Yugoslav Army, which could therefore not dispose of that property
THE HAGUE | 03.09.2010.
SPIDER IN OPERATION SPIDER
Former commander of the SVK, Mile Novakovic commanded Operation Spider; his codename was Spider. The prosecution alleges that for the operation launched in Western Bosnia, Novakovic asked for ‘logistics and equipment’ support from the VJ
THE HAGUE | 02.09.2010.
BELGRADE RESUPPLIED KRAJINA SERB ARMY
General Mile Novakovic, former commander of the Serbian Army of Krajina, is testifying at the trial of General Perisic. Today he ‘allowed it may be true’ that in the first half of 1993 he turned to the VJ – and ‘most likely to the VRS, too’ for the Orkan rockets his army needed. Two years later, the Krajina Serb army used those rockets to attack Zagreb
THE HAGUE | 26.08.2010.
TOURIST WARRIORS
Testifying at the trial of General Momcilo Perisic, Mile Novakovic, former commander of the Serbian Army of Krajina, contends that the VJ officers would come to serve in the SVK for a few months, touring Krajina as ‘tourists to play at war"
THE HAGUE | 24.06.2010.
WAR AGAINST MLADIC’S ‘VANITY’
According to witness Dragan Vuksic, former chief of the VJ General Staff Momcilo Perisic used his influence on Ratko Mladic to make him realize that the release of French pilots was not an ‘issue of his vanity’ but a problem which needed to be solved in order to achieve ‘peace in the region’
THE HAGUE | 23.06.2010.
GENERAL PERISIC WAS ‘TILTING AT WINDMILLS’
Defense witness Dragan Vuksic likened Momcilo Perisic’s efforts to convince Ratko Mladic that he was wrong to ‘tilting against windmills in Holland’. Perisic ‘used his influence’ and ‘brought to an end the ugly affair’ of French hostages
