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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable DoubtIt was at least two weeks after I left Podujevo. We spent some time in Koriqand there I was in constant contact with Selatin and Safet, we were lookingfor our families, and we did not hear anything about them. One personfrom the village of Lapašnice went to take his son from the hospital. Sarandaand Jehona Bogujevci were in that hospital. They wrote a letter sayingthat Saranda and Jehona Bogujevci were in hospital. That letter arrived tothe village of Konjic 57 . Then, Selatin and I decided to go the following day,Monday, to the Priština Hospital. It was not Selatin, it was Safet. We werewalking to Priština and it was very difficult because of the numerous checkpointswith people in different kinds of uniform, but we did not care for theconsequences; we had to get to the Priština Hospital. When we arrived inPriština, near the Nova Koljevica and the power station we saw three peoplewho were killed. They were shot in the head. I do not know who thesethree persons were. We carried on towards the hospital. I did not manageto enter the hospital, but Safet did. I do not know what he was speakingabout with his children. When he returned, he told me everything.Safet told me, ‘Your children and your family are dead’. I asked him whathappened; was that a massacre or execution and he said that they were executed.Since I could not find out anything else and I said this to my secondbrother, Shemsi, and other family members did not know anything.We stayed until Serb forces drove us out of Konjic 58 . We spent that night inthe forest with my brother’s son. That was Sunday. On Monday, we headedtowards Priština. We arrived to Priština and stayed with my uncle’s family.We stayed there and then the air strikes began and, after the air strikes,there were executions and mistreatment.I went with Selatin to the Priština mortuary where we found the documentssaying who sent my family members’ bodies to the mortuary, who tookover the bodies and when. The date of execution was 28 March, while thedate on all documents was 30 March. I am not sure whether it was after22:00 when the bodies were admitted. There were no names in this record.All bodies were marked as unidentified persons. Podujevo Civil Protectionsent the bodies.57 Koliq58 Koliq165