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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable DoubtOn the 16th in the evening I headed back and on the way out of PrištinaI saw four corpses. When I met with Enver I told him what happened toour families. I wanted to return to Priština because of the children, but Iwas not able. We were ordered to leave and so we were taken in a line.Some 75 or 78 people were killed in the line, which went from Priština. Sowe were walking and wandering, when we arrived to Podujevo we werenot allowed to enter the town. So, we had to go to the surrounding villageknown as Šajkovac. There I met with Selatin again and after some time Iwent to Podujevo again and spent seven days in one man’s house. He letmy brother and me stay in his house. Every evening people in uniform werecoming. Some of them had some hats on; most of them had leather hatsand some had leather vests.During this time, my brother ran into the Mayor of Podujevo, Biserčić, andasked about the fate of his family. He could not find out anything fromPero or from Maljević. He met with them as well. I was not able to enter myhouse or my uncle’s house, which is in the same yard because their army’sheadquarters was there. I remind you that I met with Maljević while I wasstill in Šajkovac and I asked him about my family. He told me that there isnothing in my house; that he does not know anything about my family, andthat in Gashi’s house there were three dead people. Finally on one occasion,I convinced Biserčić to let me enter my house and he gave one man,I assume, from civil protection to escort me. On the way to my house I metSvetlana Filipović. I did not want to talk to her because my brother met herbefore and she told him she did not know anything about my family. WhenI came to my house, some young man came out. He asked me what I wanted.I explained that it was my house, that I did not know anything aboutmy family, and that I would like to at least enter the house. That youngman told me that there were no corpses or traces of blood there. He addedhe was sorry, but he was ordered not to let me in until they are inside thehouse and so I did not enter my house. Until the end of the war I was notable to enter my house.I heard there were 19 graves by the railway station and we assumed thosewere our family members’ graves. We calculated that 16 members of ourfamily plus Tahiri father and son and another person were buried there.However, we were never able to get closer to those graves because therewas constantly somebody from the army guarding them. Only when the149