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Humanitarian Law CenterWhile I was still in Podujevo Mr. Nazim Veseli told me that father and son,Idriz and Selif 20 (I cannot remember their last name), were killed and Nazim,who told me that, was wounded. These two people were killed onthe same street where my house was. It happened right across my house. Ispent that night in Balovac and the following day I went on the road leadingto Niš. Other Podujevo citizens started gathering there. I hoped someof my family members would be there. I spent that whole day there. I didnot see anybody and I did not learn anything about them. I did the samething the following day. On the third day, I tried to break through; I wentto Šajkovac, Ladovc, Hertica looking for my family. The following day I arrivedto Baklava 21 in the place known as Diz. I waited there from 07:00throughout the whole day waiting for them. I tried to return to Balovac inthe evening.Around 7 o’clock in the evening when I tried to return to Balovac, I heardshooting in the direction of Podujevo and the surrounding settlements -as I understood, the gunfire was coming from the direction of the churchand the bridge located on the road to Niš. It was 14 April in the village ofKuliqi 22 that I found out for the first time about the fate of my children. Ilearned about this from a person whose child had a surgery right beforethe bombing and his child was in the same room in hospital as my children.The children gave him a letter with names and last names and asked him togive that letter to some of their fathers who were somewhere in the forests.I found out from that person that my children were in the hospital. Saranda,Fatos Bogujevci, Jehona Bogujevci, and Genc Bogujevci were in the hospitaland Lirrie was at that time already in Belgrade. My brother Safet andfriend Enver agreed on 15 April to go to the hospital in Priština. They weregoing from the Diz village located some 30 km from Priština. That is whenwe found out the truth about their fate and what happened to the children.My brother Safet and my friend Enver Duriqi went to Priština and found outfrom my children what happened to my family and then they told me.When Safet came back from the hospital I found out this: Safet’s daughterSaranda said she was wounded and Lirrie was transferred to Belgrade.Then I knew that other family members were killed. I was in shock and I20 Selim21 Batlava22 Koljić/Koliq128