ARKAN'S SECRETARY TESTIFIES AT MILOSEVIC TRIAL

THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, April 16 (Hina) - The U.N. war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic continued on Wednesday with the testimony of a protected witness, B-129. The witness is a former secretary who worked at the headquarters of Serbian warlord Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan's Serbian Volunteer Guard (SDG). #L# Prior to her testimony, Milosevic completed his cross-examination of protected witness B-1701, who spoke about the massacre of Muslim civilians in the eastern Bosnian village of Glogova in May 1992. Prosecutorial witness B-129 testified about SDG operations in Croatia and Bosnia. During her testimony, the court heard several taped conversations between Arkan and members of his units, as well as one with a former president of the Bosnian Serb entity, Biljana Plavsic. The witness said the SDG was founded in October 1990 in the Pokajnica monastery near Velika Plana. She also provided a list of its founders and members with whom she had been in contact. B-129 said that Arkan's units, "Tigers", told her about operations in the Croatian towns of Tenja, Borovo Selo, Mirkovci and Tenjski Antunovac, as well as in Bosnia's of Bijeljina, Zvornik, Brcko and west Bosnia. She said Arkan had told her he had gone to Bijeljina "at... Plavsic's invitation and their task was to disarm the Muslims, especially in the village of Janja". B-129 also testified that Arkan had told her "the Tigers go nowhere without orders from the (Serbian) State Security Service". Tapes were played of two conversations, in which B-129 recognised the voices of Plavsic, Arkan, Milorad Lukovic Legija and Vladimir Hom Rus. Arkan, a Hague indictee killed in a showdown between Belgrade underground gangs, was one of 15 people cited in the indictment against Milosevic as having taken part in the war crimes. B-129 will continue her testimony tomorrow. (hina) lml