Date of Birth
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01-October-1955
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Place of Birth
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Kozarac
(Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska, Prijedor, Banja Luka Region)
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Nationality
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Also know as
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Dusko Tadic, DuÅ¡an, Ãule
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Duško Tadić is a Bosnian Serb war criminal, former SDS leader in Kozarac and a former member of the paramilitary forces supporting the attack on the district of Prijedor. He was convicted of crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the customs of war by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his actions in the Prijedor region, including the Omarska, Trnopolje and Keraterm detention camps. He was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment.
Tadić was the first to be tried by an international criminal court of war since the Nuremberg Trials in 1947.
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