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Humanitarian Law Centerin Novi Sad, and there was a bus, or rather, two buses. I know that there,near the buses, was a minister, Mrgud, I know that’s his nickname andthat he had signed the agreement. This happened in the evening and BocaMedić, I don’t know his name, told us we would be included into SAJ asa legal formation, so we would not be a paramilitary formation. The commanderof the unit was Boca Medić; he is from Mirkovci, Eastern Slavonia.When I came to Novi Sad, to the Bonaparta club, there was Boca Medićand he told me he was supposed to go to Kosovo. He said everything wasunder attack, everything was on fire, so I did not return home, I just calledmy wife on the phone.From there, we went to the Makiš forest, near Belgrade, where we were givenuniforms, boots, that is, just uniforms without arms. There was a full busof us. I think it was a civilian bus, owned by Auto Bečej or another transportcompany, I don’t know. It was on 24 March 1999. We did not know wherewe were going. Our buses had big escort of police vehicles up front, a coupleof jeeps and a truck. I am not sure it was a police escort, but it was anescort. Boca Medić said we were going to Kosovo and I know we stoppedon the way and we arrived in Prolom Banja, we were not taken to Kosovo,but to Prolom Banja, we were accommodated in the Radan hotel, withoutarms, and awaited further instructions there. There, in Prolom Banja,we spent five or six days. Another group of people arrived, we were givenbadges, arms, which were oiled, and we were not issued arms against therecord of their factory numbers, they just distributed them among us. Justthe rifles with combat sets. We were also given bayonets for the rifles.I had known Boca Medić before. I knew Rajko Olujić, too, who, as a matterof fact, was a platoon commander, and the unit commander was Boca,I don’t know his name. As I have already said, both of us were from Dalmatia.Our unit had between 100 and 120 men. Rajko Olujić was a platooncommander, and he is from Dalmatia, and lives in Novi Sad. Therewere five platoons and the platoon I was in was under the command of RajkoOlujić. I know that the commander of a platoon was a man nicknamedGuljo and that he was a brother of commander Boca, but I can’t rememberthe name of commander Boca. Brko and Žuća were platoon commandersof the next two platoons. I know that Brko and Žuća had been in the Scorpionsin Eastern Slavonija under Boca’s command. Rajko Olujić offered meeither the post of his deputy or the command of a group of men, but I re-286