July 29
The tribunal was not in session.

July 30
Two witnesses testified that Dusko Tadic beat them inside the Omarska prison camp.

The testimony of one of the witnesses, Hakija Elezovic, was some of the most persuasive of the trial as he was able to point directly at Tadic as his assailant.

Elezovic, a Muslim born near Trnopolje, said he knew Tadic from sight, but "up until the conflict, didn't really know him." On July 9, 1992, he said he was taken to the Trnopolje prison camp where he said he witnessed the fatal shooting of his son, Samir. Elezovic said he was later taken to the Keraterm prison camp -- it as here that he first encountered Tadic. Elezovich said Tadic beat him and kicked him "with a master's kick."

Elezovich testified that he was later transferred to Omarska where he once again fell victim to Tadic. Elezovich first witnessed Tadic beating several prisoners, including his other son, Salih, who later died. Elezovich quoted Tadic as saying, "Now, you've come to the right place," as he was beating Salih Elezovich. Then, the witness testified, Tadic began to beat and kick him in a manner similar to the assault at Keraterm.

Another prisoner, Hase Icic, also offered incriminating evidence against Tadic.

Icic, a Muslim, testified that he had known Tadic for most of his life. Shortly after the Serb attack on Kozarac, he was transferred to the Keraterm prison camp and eventually sent to Omarska. Icic said that shortly after he arrived at the camp, he witnessed Serb guards beating prisoners and once saw them using knives to carve crosses on the backs of prisoners.

Icic said that at one point during his detention, Serb guards pulled him into a room. When he looked up, he saw Tadic was among the group. Icic said one of the men (he did not say if it was Tadic) put a noose around his neck, pulled it tight and then hit him on the back. Icic soon lost consciousness.

Another time, Icic said he saw Tadic and another man throw a beaten-up man into a room. "Now you'll remember ... that you cannot touch a Serb or say anything to a Serb," Icic said Tadic told the victim."

On cross-examination, defense attorney Steven Kay suggested Icic was confusing Tadic with another Serb guard whose nickname also is Dule. Kay point out that, in a prior statement about his experience in Omarska, Icic wrote he heard Tadic but never saw him.

The tribunal also released the transcript of the testimony of Witness "H," who testified last week in closed session. The prosecution contends that Tadic and other Serbs at Omarska forced the witness and another prisoner to sexuallyt mutilate a third prisoner. But Witness "H" did not and could not implicate Tadic in the incident.

July 31
The prosecution shifted its focus to the counts in the indictment accusing Dusko Tadic of killing five Muslim men and beating eight others in two villages near Kozarac in June of 1992.

The most important testimony of the day came from Drajuni Jaskic, the wife of one of Tadic's alleged victims.

She testified that she was living with her husband in Jaskici on June 14, 1992, when the Serbs took over the village. She said three Serb soliders came to her house that day and called out most of the male members of her family. Jaskic said that at one point, she looked out her window and saw Tadic chasing two Muslim men.

Then, she said, she saw "Dule Tadic beat my family, my husband, my father, my brother, my uncle, my whole family." Jaskic said it was the last time she saw her father, husband and brother.

Near the end of her testimony, she admitted to the court that when tribunal investigators interviewed her last year and showed her a set of photographs including one of Tadic, she said she did not recognize anyone even though she did recognize Tadic. When asked why she did this, Jaskic said, "I was afraid."

August 1
Dusko Tadic and several other armed Bosnian Serbs stormed into the Bosnian villages of Jaskici and Sivci on June 14, 1992, killing five Muslim men and beating eight others, according to three witnesses who survived the attacks.

Prosecutors are using the testimony of Zemha Sahbaz, Senija Elkasovic and Vasif Gutic to support counts 29 to 34 of Tadic's indictment.

Sahbaz, a Muslim woman from Jaskici, said that a man in a camouflage uniform threatened her and ordered Serbs from the town to beat Muslims. Through the use of a photo identification, she identified Tadic as that uniformed man.

Another Muslim woman from Jaskici, Elkasovic, said she had known Tadic for 15 years. When she saw him that June 14, he was standing in front of her home in a camouflage uniform. Another uniformed Serb ordered her and her family to lay on the floor. She heard a soldier threaten to cut the throat of anyone who looked in her direction.

Elkasovic said she did not see Tadic engage in any violent acts. But when she left her home, dead bodies were scattered about the town. She has not since seen or heard from her husband, brother or brother-in-law.

Gutic, a medical student from Kozarac, said he was arrested on the day he was to take one of his last exams before graduating. He said he had known Tadic for quite a while and became aware that Tadic's cafe began barring Muslims sometime prior to the Serb attack on Kozarac in May 1992.

August 2
The tribunal was not in session.