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                                           NEWS: EVENING BULLETIN

          
          O.L. SCALFARO IN SARAJEVO

Sarajevo, Feb 2, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Italian president Oscar
Luigi Scalfaro arrived at visit to Sarajevo where he talked with
president of the Republic of B-H presidency Alija Izetbegovic and
the president and vice president of the B-H Federation Kresimir
Zubak and Ejup Ganic, respectively. Scalfaro visited Italian
soldiers being a part of IFOR troops.
     After the talks with his Italian counterpart, Alija
Izetbegovic expressed his pleasure with to date implementation of
the peace accord adding that the implementation of civil annex of
the peace agreement was finally stepped up. /end/ A.S.

          
          TADIC DEMANDS ALIBI, HERAK DENIES CRIMES
  
Sarajevo, Feb 2, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Two lawyers of Dusko Tadic
arrived at B-H looking for witnesses who could provide alibi to
their defendant. The lawyers claim they do not want to deny the
fact that grave crimes were committed in the concentration camp
Omarska, but only want to prove that Dusko Tadic, despite the
statements of many witnesses and other proof that their defendant 
was not at the camp at that time. Dusko Tadic is the only person
so far in the prison of the Hague International Tribunal, where 
he was placed on his extradition from Germany.
     Borislav Herak, sentenced to death in Sarajevo three years
ago due to rapes and killing what he admitted, told the
journalist of "The New York Times" that nothing he had said was
true as he was "forced to accuse himself and his friends from
Republic od Srpska". Herak has three version of the pressure:
that he was exposed to violence in the prison, that he was afraid
for his father's life and that it was the only way to save his
own life. Sretko Damjanovic, another Serb criminal who along with
Herak, was sentenced to death the same process, claims the same.
Yet, Sretko Damjanovic states that "Herak is not clear," saying:
He must not be given a gun into his hands. He is a beast." In the
process Herak said his superior had told him that raping Bosniak
girls and women was good for Serb military morale and that their
death was a adequate Serb revenge. Herak now claims that he was
handed a text with the guilty plea on 6O pages he had to learn by
heart and repeat it at the trial. "Herak is a psychopath, who
cannot be trusted," says the head of the prison Esad
Osmanbegovic, where Herak is now, adding that the prisoners might
have been beaten in the beginning but it soon stopped.
     "The New York Times" writes that there are no witnesses to
prove Herak's crimes and that there are some who saw Herak and
Damjanovic as the concentration camps' guards. Herak and
Damjanovic threatened one detainee, who later escaped from the
camp, to be brutally killed. It is not known when and if Herak
and Damjanovic, for whom the International Tribunal has not shown
any interest in, will ever be executed. /end/ A.S.�## CrossPoint v3.02 ##