Court officials said the two witnesses had confirmed their statements given earlier to the police, when they said that the person who had tortured them was Slobodan Davidovic. It was on the basis of those statements that the investigation against Davidovic, initially suspected of participating in the killing of Muslims after the fall of the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in 1995, was expanded in mid-July.
Describing in detail the torture they were subjected to after their capture on October 19, 1991, the two witnesses told investigating judge Mirko Klinzic that Davidovic was the only person wearing a camouflage uniform with a badge reading "Scorpions" on his sleeve, while the other soldiers in the prison wore uniforms of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).
Both witnesses said they were saved by a JNA colonel and that they were exchanged the following day.
Davidovic was arrested in Banovci near the eastern town of Vinkovci in mid-June this year after an amateur video recording was shown on Croatian Television showing members of the "Scorpions" killing Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. The recording was previously shown at the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague.
Davidovic stands mute regarding crimes against Bosnian Muslims, and he has dismissed accusations about the torture of Croatian soldiers as false. He claims that he last visited Bobota 20 years ago and that "Scorpions" did not exist at the time when crimes against Croatian soldiers were committed. He says the unit was formed as late as 1993 and he joined it in November that year.
The witnesses heard today were the last witnesses to testify and the court is now expected to forward the results of the investigation to the prosecution, which will decide whether to indict Davidovic or discontinue further prosecution.