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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubt“I was the last one who left the house and I could not hear if any of the policeofficers called us in Albanian to come out. Nobody pushed me with thegunstock or hit me with a gunstock to the head.”The photo documentation was presented to injured party Enver Duriqi andhe gave the following statement:“Halim Gashi’s house is in the photograph one - I can see that by the pillarof the house; I do not recognise anybody in the photographs one, two orthree. In photograph three where a closer picture of Selman Gashi’s corpseis shown, I state that I recognise my father. I know that because he waswearing the coat I bought him. By the same coat I recognise his corpse inthe photograph one in the teahouse. In the photograph four I recognisemy wife by the wall in the grey and dark green clothes. My older daughterDafina is in the pink and violet clothes. My mother Isma is also there in thebrown coat and Nora, Selatin’s daughter is in front of them. Shefkate Bogujevci,Selatin’s wife, is in the photograph six.”EXAMINATION OF WITNESS GORAN STOPARIĆWitness GORAN STOPARIĆ with personal details as in the record from theMain Hearing from 11 November 2002 before the Prokuplje District Court;did not know the defendant before; they are not related; warned; advisedpursuant to Article 100 of the Criminal Procedure Code; he gave the followingstatement:“I was in the Scorpions unit, we took off from Šid to Belgrade and then toProlom Banja. We spent some time in Prolom Banja because we were waitingfor some other people from our unit to join us. When these people arrivedwe took off for Podujevo. We were issued with 7.62 mm automaticrifles in Prolom Banja. Before we arrived to Podujevo, our company commanderSlobodan Medić told us that approximately half of the town wasunder Serb control and we were supposed to participate in the action oftaking over other half of the town.175