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JUNE 24
The tribunal was not in session.
JUNE 25
Three more witnesses testified to seeing Dusko Tadic inside the Omarska prison camp, but none saw him doing anything more than walking with a group of men in camouflage.
There wasn't much major testimony but prosecutors did elicit some interesting information, including testimony that:
In 1990-91, a Belgrade newspaper printed a story about Dusko Tadic receiving hate mail threatening to liquidate the Tadic family if it didn't move out of town. A witness said he later heard a rumor that Tadic's wife wrote the letter. (The prosecution wasn't clear about the significance of this, but apparently it hopes to suggest that Tadic was stirring things up well before the war.
Also, Tadic was on a peace committee established by the town of Kozarac when residents began to fear the town would be overtaken by the Serbs. Tadic was well-known in town, and Muslims wanted him on the committee because they thought he could be trusted to represent everyone's interests.
JUNE 26
The prosecution ended this phase of the trial by calling the eighth witness who claims to have seen Dusko Tadic inside the Omarska prison camp.
The witness, Kemal Susic, was even more adamant about seeing Tadic than those witnesses who preceded him on the witness stand. Susic, a physical education teacher, said he has known the Tadic family for years. He said he knows Tadic's physique so well that he would have known him even in the dark, and he said he is positive he saw the defendant at the camp.
Susic said he saw Tadic walking into the administration building with a group of soldiers. He said he was disappointed because he had hoped Tadic would have stayed out of the war and distanced himself from the Serbian soldiers.
For a while today, it looked as if the defense would wage a war over a series of photo line-ups conducted by the prosecution, but defense attorney Michail Wladimiroff backed off after the court said it would not allow his expert to testify in person today. Wladimiroff said he would address the issue when the defense presents its case.
JUNE 27
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia started a so-called Rule 61 hearing against Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic.
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