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Humanitarian Law CenterHalim Gashi’s yard because these are two storey houses. Since my uncleIsak Gjata was a reserve police officer in 1981, it is possible that he had thatuniform in the attic of his house. My father was wounded on 25 March onhis way to our house. His cousin and he were ambushed. On that occasion,my father was wounded and his cousin killed. I think there were five or sixcars in my uncle’s yard. One of them was my father’s and the rest werecousins’. When we returned, we only found my car. Since we did not stay inPodujevo, but we carried on towards Ladovac, we could not hear the gunfirecoming from the centre of the town.”The defence counsellor asked a question and the witness answered:“When I went out on the street I did not dare look or count much, I onlylooked in front of me, but I did see there were a lot of people wearing uniform.There were maybe 20 to 30 police officers and maybe even more.”To the defendant’s question, the witness answered:“Half of the staircase goes along the left wall and another half along theright half of the wall. When you take the stairs to the first floor, the firstroom on the right is the bedroom. This is not my bedroom because I donot live there. I do not know what was in the closet in this room. The kitchenwas on the left side on that floor and two other rooms were a little furtherdown the hall. It is true that when you get out of the house the fenceis located right beside the stairs, less than half a metre away from the stairs.There is another house on the left side of this house. That is Gjata Gashi’shouse. There is one smaller door in that house under the staircase.”Then the defendant stated:“The house the witness is mentioning is the house I went into and the gunfirehe heard was the gunfire I opened. I am not the bald guy the witnessmentioned; I have never shaved my head.”The witness gave the following answer to the defendant’s additional question:174