JUNE 10
The tribunal was not in session.

JUNE 11
A witness testified behind closed doors. It is believed that the testimony from the person known only as "Witness Q" directly implicated Dusko Tadic.

JUNE 12
The tribunal spent most of the day in closed session hearing from Witness "Q," the first of the so-called eyewitnesses who can allegedly directly implicate Dusko Tadic.

Officials won't identify the witness, but it is known that the individual was called to testify about Count I of the indictment -- persecution on non-Serbs in the Prijedor region.

The court then heard from Azra Blazevic, a veterinarian who lived in Tadic's hometown of Kozarac. She said she and Tadic were acquaintances and she saw him frequently saw him, sometimes on a daily basis. Blazevic said they lived a couple of hundred meters from one another.

During her two hours of testimony, she did not say anything about Tadic. Instead, she told a little about herself and about how Kozarac, a predominantly Muslim town, was taken over by the Serbs in May 1992.

She also said:

@ On April 30, 1992, the Serbs took over Prijedor and announced they had been forced to take the action because of the danger of Muslim extremists. She said she went to Prijedor that day and found the city unusually empty. Prijedor was generally a busy city, but on that day, she saw military people in uniforms but virtually no civilians.

@ Within days, the Serbs in Prijedor were issuing ultimatums to the Muslims who lived in Kozarac. They were demanding that the city and police officials sign Serbian loyalty oaths, and telling people in the town to turn over all their weapons. (She claimed the only weapons the villagers had were some hunting rifles and a few pistols.)

@ On May 23, 1992, she could hear gunfire from the direction of Prijedor. "Later on, one could see the smoke and flames rising from the area of the hills," she said.

@ On May 24, 1992, Kozarac was attacked. She and others thought the attack was imminent because all but two Serbs had left the town in the previous days. By the time of the attack, the city was surrounded and there were no escape routes, she said.

Just before the attack, she went to the medical center to see if she could help. The only non-Muslim there was a woman named Gordina. Not long after she arrived, the firing began. She said all the firing appeared to be directed toward the city.

"It started suddenly with terrible shelling that seemed as if thousands of shells were falling at the same time," she said. "Shortly after that, the wounded began arriving."

@ On May 25, 1992, she and the others moved to a hotel because it had become too dangerous in the center, The Serbs were everywhere, and there was no way for people to get their wounded safely to the hotel, she said.

Once in the hotel, she overheard negotiations between the Kozarac police and the Serbian military. She heard the military demanding that the police surrender and turn over their weapons. After that, she said, the military leaders were saying the civilians would be able to leave in a single file.

The next day, the police surrendered and the civilians fled Kozarac.

Blazevic did not mention Tadic in her testimony, but she certainly laid the groundwork for some potentially incriminating testimony. For instance, the indictment alleges Tadic and Goran Borovnica fatally shot four Muslims as the Kozarac civilians were attempting to leasve the city.

It also alleges Tadic participated in the attack on Korazac by lighting flares to faciliate tank and artillery fire, organizing the detention of the population for deportation to capms, killing an edlerly woman near the cemetery, besting a former policement from Korazac and beating two Muslim males from Kozarac in the Prijedor military barracks.

JUNE 13
Two witnesses publicly linked Dusko Tadic to the violence in Bosnia in 1992.

One witness said she saw Tadic wearing a uniform and carrying a rifle in the middle of things as Tadic's hometown of Kozarac was being taken over by the Serbs. The second witness claimed to have seen Tadic wearing a camouflage uniform and carrying an automatic rifle as Kozarac residents were rounded up and taken to prison camps.

Azra Blazevic, a veterinarian who lived in Kozarac, previously testified that she knew Tadic and used to see him almost every day. Today, she described her final minutes in Kozarac before she and others were taken to the Trnopolje prison camp.

She said the Serbs took her and other medical personnel to an intersection in town. While she was there, she heard someone whisper, "There's Dule," and she looked up and saw Tadic walking across the street. (Dule is a nickname for Dusko.)

She said he was carrying a weapon in one hand and his other hand was raised as if he was trying to get someone's attention. Blazevic said was wearing a uniform but she could not describe it.

On cross-examination, the defense suggested her identification was wrong. Defense attorney Michail Wladimiroff noted that she had seen the man identified as "Dule" for only a few seconds, and she was unable to describe the face of the man she saw. He also suggested that she identified Tadic in court because he was sitting in the logical place for a defendant to be sitting in a courtroom. She denied that, saying, "I know him. It doesn't matter to me where he sits."

The defense also suggest that Tadic may have been living abroad from during the time period (1986 to 1992) that Blazevic said she saw him many times. The witness said it was possible that he may have been out of the country and she wouldn't have realized it.

She told the tribunal that she made two trips back to Kozarac after she was taken to the Trnopolje prison camp. The first trip, in late May 1992, shortly after she arrived at the camp, was to try and retrieve medicine that might have been left in the village.

Her second trip in June was to get some personal documents. She said Kozarac was almost completely destroyed at the time, but she noticed several houses -- including one belonging to Tadic -- that were largely undamaged. She said Tadic's house had a sign on it that said: Serb House. Do Not Touch.

The second eyewitness to publicly identify Tadic was Nasiha Klipic, a Muslim from a town three kilometers from Kozarac who said she known the defendant all her life.

She told the tribunal about one incident in 1985-86 when she and other went to a bar after a wedding. Tadic and his friends were there, and he pulled her chair out as she began to sit down so she fell to the ground. She described it as a funny moment, and many in the courtroom gallery laughed out loud as she recalled a side of Tadic that few have seen.

Klipic said she frequently saw Tadic because she went to taverns and bars a lot. She said she knew he was a karate instructor. she also knew his father, his wife and his children.

Her husband was a Prijedor police officer until April 29, 1992, when the Serbians took over Prijedor. He then moved to Kozarac and worked there until late May. He disappeared during the violence and she does not know what happened to him.

When the alarm sounded in late May indicating Kozarac was in imminent danger of attack, her husband went to the police station and she and her children hid in a basement with others. The group in the basement eventually tried to get away by hiding in the mountains but the army arrived and she and the others surrendered. The army took them to Kozarac, and on the way, she said she saw all the signs of war.

She said that as the group was walking from Kozarac toward Kozarusa, a police car carrying several men -- including Tadic -- drove up. She said she was a half a meter away and is positive Tadic was in the car. She said he was wearing a camouflage uniform.

On the road between Kozarac and Kozarusa, the Serbs were singling out certain Muslims and taking them away to kill them, she said. When they arrived in Kozarusa, the men were pulled out of the group and were put into one of three groups: those headed for Omarska, for Keraterm or for Trnopolje.

At this point, she said, she saw Tadic again and heard him loudly say, "Where do I take these?" (It's unclear whether he was talking about the group of men or the remaining women and children. But if the judges believe her testimony, it clearly puts Tadic right in the middle of things as the war was progressing.) Tadic was carrying an automatic rifle and pistol at the time, she said.

Klipic said she and her children ended up in Trnopolje.

JUNE 14
The tribunal heard some of the most dramatic testimony to date when a survivor of the Omarksa camp said he saw Dusko Tadic kill two Muslim police officers in May 1992.

Nihad Seferovic testified that he was hiding in an orchard when he saw Tadic slit the throats of two Kozarac policemen.

Three eyewitnesses now have publicly linked Tadic to the violence, and they have identified Tadic in court. The defense has attacked the witnesses, accusing them of making up their Tadic sightings.

Before Seferovic testified, the court heard from Nasiha Klipic, who previously testified that she twice saw Tadic wearing a uniform and carrying weapons as the Serbs were taking over the village of Kozarac.

Today, she told a personal story of devastation as she recounted how 35 men in her family disappeared or were killed in the war. She identified pictures of some of them, including her husband, brothers and father-in-law. She cried as she described how her husband and one of her brothers disappeared. (In the indictment, Tadic is accused of helping to kill her brother, Enver Alic, at Omarska. So far, the tribunal has heard that he is missing. They have not heard confirmation that he is dead.)

She also testified that she saw Tadic twice near the Trnopolje prison camp. Once, she saw him in the passenger of a police car as she was walking near Prijedor to get some medicine for her children in early June 1992. Tadic was wearing camouflage.

The second time, she said, was a sighting across the street from the camp. Tadic again was wearing camouflage and was carrying a rifle and pistol.

She saw Tadic again in mid- to late-June in Prijedor. He was wearing civilian clothes and was standing in front of the police station.

She identified Tadic in court, and scolded him for the way he looked. "He never was so smartly dressed like this," she said. "Shame on you."

Under cross-examination by defense attorney Stephen Kay, she could not explain why she claims she saw Tadic in Kozarac headed toward Prijedor, then she saw him an hour and a half later in a different location headed the other direction. The defense contends she made up the sightings, yet she didn't see Tadic pass her, which he would have had to do to have been in both places at the times she alleged.

"As to how he got there, I don't know. Ask him," Klipic said.

She also could not explain some apparent discrepancies in a statement she gave to a tribunal investigator in October 1995. In it, she did not mention seeing Tadic twice on May 27, 1992, as she did during her testimony. She said she had forgotten it.

She also could not explain why in the statement she said Tadic was "deciding" where Muslims would be sent after the Serbs overtook Kozarac. During her court testimony, she said Tadic was present when male Muslims were taken away from their families and divided into groups headed toward different prison camps. She said she heard Tadic say, "Where do I take these?" The defense pointed out that the statement is quite a bit benign than her statement to the tribunal investigator that he was deciding who would be sent to Omarska.

Klipic bristled at Kay's suggestions that she made up seeing Tadic. "I said the truth. I would be happier if I was lying to you and if my family was alive," she said.

The defense suggested that Tadic might have been in Prijedor because he could have been with a Serbian man who was seeking to get him Muslim wife out of the prison camp.

Tadic Accused of Murder
Seferovic, a Muslim survivor of Omarksa and the first witness to say he saw Tadic commit murder, said he grew up in Kozarac and played with the Tadic children when he was young. He also said he helped Tadic build his cafe. (He said it was a tradition for everyone to chip in when someone had a major construction project.) He said that in May 1992, it was obvious the Serbs were taking over the Kozarac area. The roads were blocked and Muslims were not free to travel, and the Serbs too over the television stations and began broadcasting Serbian TV.

When the attack on Kozarac began, he went to the hills seeking safety. He came back in the next couple of days to feed his birds, and while he was in Kozarac he saw Tadic kill the police officers.

He said he was hiding in an orchard across the street from the Serbian Orthodox Church near his brother's house. He said he saw six or so Muslim police officers being held by about 15 Serb military men. He recognized four of the Muslims.

He then saw Tadic drag men named Osman and Ekremn Krabasic away and cut their throats. "I did not see the knife, just the gush of blood," he said, adding that he then "retreated in despair." (The indictment accuses Tadic or working with Goran Borovnica to shoot four men in Kozarac -- Ekrem Karabasic, Ismet Karabasic, Seido Karabasic and Redo Foric. It is not known how the difference in names or manner of death might affect the case.)

Defense attorney Kay suggested that the witness could not have had a clear view of the church because he was hiding in brush. The brush would have seemingly obstructed his view. Seferovic denied that, and said his view of the church was "all too clear."

Kay then maintained that Seferovic invented the incident, but the witness said, "I saw it with my own eyes."

Kay pointed out a minor discrepancy in Seferovic's testimony, He noted that the witness testified that his brother's house was 50-60 meters from the church. In his May 4, 1995, statement to a tribunal investigator, he said the house was 100 meters away.

Kay also asked a series of questions about the manner of death, locking Seferovic into his story that their throats were slit.