JULY 22
The tribunal was not in session.

JULY 23
Three survivors of the Omarska detention camp testified about Dusko Tadic's role in the beating and torture of prisoners there.

Senad Muslimovic, a Muslim, described beatings he received at the hands of Tadic. He said he was forced to kneel on the floor while Tadic held his head and put a knife to his throat. He was not cut badly. But Tadic threatened to slice his ear off.

Armin Kenjar, a reserve policeman from Tadic's hometown of Kozarac, said that when he was growing up he idolized Tadic because of Tadic's karate expertise. He compared Tadic to a cowboy. Kenjar was later held at Omarska, where he said he saw Tadic. From a nearby room, he said he heard Tadic and other Serbs attack a prisoner. He described "screams, wailing . . . cries of pain . . . it was really horrible, a nightmare . . . It must have been a massacre in the worst way possible."

Mehmed Alic, an elderly Muslim man, said he knew the Tadic family for most of his life and was friendly with Tadic's family. After an attack in his hometown, he said he saw Tadic wearing a camouflage uniform. He was taken to Omarska, where he said he saw Tadic twice. "It was always very quickly, but Dule [Dusko] Tadic is Dule [Dusko] Tadic . . I would know him. I know him, I know his build like myself . . . There is no question."

Tadic has denied mistreating prisoners in the detention camp. He claims to be the victim of mistaken identity.

JULY 24
The defense questioned Mehmed Alic's testimony that he saw Dusko Tadic at Omarska. Attorney Steven Kay suggested that Alic's head was down or turned away most of the time -- that the circumstances surrounding his alleged sightings of Tadic prevented him from making an accurate identification.

The next witness, Halid Mujkanovic, a Muslim survivor of Omarska from Kozarac, testified that he has known Tadic most of his life. After surrendering to Serb forces after the attack on Kozarac, he was taken to Omarska. When asked about the conditions there, he said, "hunger, scabies, lice, dysentery...impossible condition." He said prisoners were beaten every day, sometimes singled out or individual or special beatings.

Mujkanovic recalled the time a Serb soldier beat him and threatened to continue the lashings until the prisoner could come up with a certain amount of money. When Mujkanovic failed to do so, he was beaten again.

He testified that he saw Tadic inside the camp on two separate occasion. But he was unable to connect Tadic with any specific criminal acts.

JULY 25
Testimony focused on allegations that Dusko Tadic and other Serbs at the Omarska detention camp ordered a prisoner to bite off the genitals of another prisoner.

Muharem Besic, a Muslim survivor of Omarska, said he saw Tadic at the camp. While Besic said he heard the wails of the victim, he could not say whether Tadic was involved in the mutilation incident.

Husein Hodzic, another prisoner at the camp at the time of the incident, also said he heard the screams of the victim. And like Besic, he could no connect Tadic to the crime.

Hodzic also testified that a fellow prisoner, Emir Karabasic, told him upon seeing the Tadic in the camp, "Dule has arrived. I'm finished. (Dule is a nickname for Dusko.)

JULY 26
The direct examination of Armin Mujcic, who previously testified that he was born and raised in Kozarac and knew Dusko Tadic most of his life, continued as he told the court of what he saw at the Omarska prison camp.

Mujcic said when he arrived at Omarska, "people were lined up and beaten by the guards. It was impossible not to be beaten." He was placed with others in an overcrowded room and often not permitted to use the toilet.

At one point during his detention, Mujcic described how he was running to his room when he turned around and saw Tadic in a camouflage uniform. Mujcic said later that day, he witnessed a group of Serb guards, including Tadic, beating two other prisoners. This was the incident when prosecutors claim Tadic and other Serbs ordered a prisoner to bite off the genitals of another prisoner.

"I thought we were all going to br tortured like this," Mujcic told the tribunal. "I wished they would just kill me with a bullet, it would be easier."

But during an effective cross-examination, Mujcic seemed to retreat from his testimony.

Defense attorney Steven Kay, questioning with witness's alleged observation of Tadic, suggested that Mujcic only heard rumors that Tadic was in the camp.

"What I'm suggesting to you is that you've made it up and that it was Tadic," Kay asked. Mujcic at first denied the allegation but soon after conceded that his belief that Tadic was Omarska may have been based on what he heard from other prisoners.

Elvir Grozdanic, a former Muslim reserve policeman and former student of the defendant, testified that he was held at Omarska for 72 days.

He said he saw Tadic in the camp on three separate occasions. The first time, he said, Tadic "came up to me, grabbed my face, and asked me if I had been on the Muslim police force." Grozdanic testified that he lied to Tadic and was left alone. Another time, he said, he saw Tadic beating some prisoners. The third time he saw Tadic in the camp, the defendant was carrying a fire extinguisher and "shoved the hose into the mouth of a prisoner."

On cross-examination, defense attorney Sylvia Bertodano challenged Grozdanic's testimony about seeing Tadic in the camp.

At one point, she said: "What I'm suggesting is this, that you didn't see Dusko Tadic at all on that day...that you heard afterward from other prisoners and reports in the media about what had happened in the camp, and you made up this story that you yourself had seen Dusko Tadic."

Grozdanic replied, "thank you very much for all this, and for all this trust you are showing. After all those atrocities, I am quite ready to take Dusko Tadic's place, and for him to see here, if I have said a single lie."