IT-05-88-T 37488 D37488 - D37225 26 July 2010 TR THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA CASE NO IT-05-88-T IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER Before: Judge Carmel Agius, Presiding Judge O Gon-Kwon Judge Kimberley Prost Judge Ole Bjorn Støle, Reserve Judge Registrar: Mr John Hocking Date Filed: 26th of July 2010 THE PROSECUTOR -V- VUJADIN POPOVI3 LJUBIŠA BEARA DRAGO NIKOLI3 LJUBOMIR BOROV5ANIN RADIVOJE MILETI3 MILAN GVERO VINKO PANDUREVI3 PUBLIC PANDUREVIC NOTICE OF FILING A PUBLIC REDACTED VERSION OF THE PANDUREVIC FINAL TRIAL BRIEF The Office of the Prosecutor Peter McCloskey Counsel for the Accused Zoran Živanovi4 and Mira Tapuškovi4 for Vujadin Popovi4 John Ostoji4 for Ljubiša Beara Jelena Nikoli4 and Stephane Bourgon for Drago Nikoli4 Christopher Gosnell and Ms Tatjana Cmeri4 for Ljubomir Borov6anin Nataša Faveau Ivanovi4 and Nenad Petruši4 for Radivoje Mileti4 Dragan Krgovi4 and David Josse, QC for Milan Gvero Peter Haynes, QC and Simon Davis for Vinko Pandurevi4 Case No. IT-05-88-T 1 26 July 2010 PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/065c65/ 37487 Pursuant to the Trial Chamber’s Order on Outstanding Documents Marked for Identification and on Public Redacted Versions of the Final Briefs (3 June 2010), the Defence for Vinko Pandurevic hereby files a public redacted version of its Final Trial Brief as Annex A to the present notice. The Pandurevic Final Trial Brief was originally filed confidentially on 30 July 2009. Respectfully submitted on this 26th of July 2010 Lead Counsel for Vinko Pandurevi4 Word Count: 218 Case No. IT-05-88-T 2 26 July 2010 PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/065c65/ IT-05-88-T 37486 ANNEX A PUBLIC PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/065c65/ 37485 Annex A TABLE OF CONTENT PART 1 – INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................. 11 1. Structure of the final brief ........................................................................................ 11 2. Issues of Proof ......................................................................................................... 11 2.1. Preliminary matters on evidence ...................................................................... 12 2.1.1. Contemporaneous Documents .................................................................. 12 2.1.2. Business Records ..................................................................................... 14 2.1.3. Intercepted Radio-communications .......................................................... 14 2.1.4. The Evidence of Eileen Gilleece ............................................................... 15 2.1.5. Experts and Analysts ................................................................................ 16 2.2. [REDACTED] ................................................................................................. 19 2.2.1. [REDACTED] ......................................................................................... 20 2.2.2. [REDACTED] ......................................................................................... 21 2.2.3. [REDACTED] ......................................................................................... 22 2.3. Pandurevic’s Testimony in his own Defence .................................................... 23 2.4. The Boksanica and Zivanovic Video Tapes ...................................................... 25 2.4.1. The Boksanica Footage ............................................................................ 25 2.4.2. The Zivanovic Footage ............................................................................. 29 PART 2 - THE DEFENCE CASE ....................................................................................... 31 PART 3 - BRIGADE COMMAND ISSUES ....................................................................... 34 1. Zone of responsibility .............................................................................................. 34 1.1. False Prosecution theory ....................................................................................... 34 1.2. Occupation commanders – the basis of a flawed theory of liability? ...................... 35 1.3. Name of the Brigade ............................................................................................. 36 1.4. “Zone of defence’ and ‘zone of responsibility for combat operations’ ................... 36 1.5. Detention and execution sites outside the zone ...................................................... 37 1.6. Brigade commander cannot be responsible for the territory ................................... 38 1.7. Zone of responsibility as a basis for criminal liability ........................................... 39 2. Commander and chief of staff as deputy commander ............................................... 40 2.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................... 40 2.2. The Rules of the Brigade of the JNA .................................................................... 40 2.2.1. Purpose of the Rules ...................................................................................... 41 2.2.2. Difficulties in applying the rules of the JNA to the VRS ................................ 42 2.2.3. Commander under the Brigade Rules ............................................................. 43 2.3. Commander’s responsibility in law .................................................................. 45 Case No. IT-05-88-T 1 30 July 2009 PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/065c65/ 37484 3. Chief of staff and deputy commander under the Brigade Rules ................................ 45 3.1. Powers of the chief of staff to issue orders only in accordance with the commander’s decision ................................................................................................. 46 3.2. Powers of the deputy commander are unlimited ............................................... 46 3.3. Chief of staff is deputy commander in law with all rights and responsibilities .. 47 3.3.1. ‘All rights and duties’ necessarily include taking over command .............. 47 3.3.2. Compelling circumstances ........................................................................ 48 3.3.3. Absence of the commander as the only condition ..................................... 49 3.3.4. Absence of the commander and the chief of staff ...................................... 49 3.4. Obrenovic as a deputy commander by appointment .......................................... 50 3.4.1. Permanent order of appointment and automatic assumption of command . 50 3.4.2. No need for subsequent order of appointment ........................................... 50 3.5. Length of time of commander’s absence is irrelevant ....................................... 51 3.5.1. No additional replacement order if absence less than a month .................. 51 3.5.2. Additional replacement order only if absence for more than a month ........ 52 3.5.3. Additional order does not affect deputy commander’s legal position ........ 53 3.6. In practical terms there is no difference between the titles deputy commander, standing in for the commander, and acting commander. ............................................... 53 3.7. The signing of combat reports is no indication of command responsibility ....... 54 3.8. Formality is irrelevant ...................................................................................... 55 3.9. Deputy commander exclusively receives orders from and reports to superior command ..................................................................................................................... 56 4. Structure of the Zvornik Brigade ............................................................................. 57 4.1. The Staff .......................................................................................................... 58 4.2. Organ for Logistics .......................................................................................... 58 4.3. Organ for Morale ............................................................................................. 58 4.4. Functional relationships ................................................................................... 59 4.5. Subordination of units ...................................................................................... 59 4.6. Battalions ......................................................................................................... 60 4.7. Podrinje detachment or Drina Wolves .............................................................. 60 4.8. Reorganization of the Zvornik Brigade by Pandurevic ..................................... 60 4.9. Role of the duty operations officer ................................................................... 61 4.9.1. General role ............................................................................................. 61 4.9.2. Documents kept by the duty operations officer ......................................... 62 5. Security organ ......................................................................................................... 63 5.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 63 5.2 The Security and Intelligence Services within the VRS .................................... 64 5.3. Command and Control ......................................................................................... 65 Case No. IT-05-88-T 2 30 July 2009 PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/065c65/