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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubter, who I did not know at the time, but I found out later that his name wasToma, gave her a pair of shoes and said, ‘Do not be afraid’.Approximately at the same time, people from Isak and Xhafer’s housesstarted coming out and we heard some noise. There were a lot of cars inthis yard and they kept asking me for the keys. I told them that I did nothave any keys. Fortunately I explained to them that a part of the yard wherethere were no cars belonged to us and this part with the cars belonged toour neighbour. When he heard the noise, this man let go of me and ran. Iheard somebody saying to him, ‘Saša, what are we going to do with theseover here?’ I did not hear him say anything. Then one of the police officers,it might have been Toma, said, ‘Everybody out’ he was sending us out ofthe yard. We went out of the yard on the street and we were all standing ina group in front of the grocery store and a boutique. Everybody who waswith me in the house was now on the street and people from Xhafer andIsak’s houses were still coming out.The man, who was holding me before, was already on the street. While wewere walking down the street, he was standing in front of us and said, ‘Iwill kill you all’. Then he came to me and separated me from the group ofpeople and pointed his rifle at me again. He asked me why the dogs werebarking, because we heard some dogs barking from some yard, and thenhe asked me why did I speak Serbian and I said because I learned it in Belgrade.Then one of the people in uniform came to him from the group andsaid, ‘Let the man go’. This man let go of me, but he turned his rifle aroundand hit me with the gunstock in the face. I still have a scar.Then I joined other people and went with them because some of the peoplein uniform told us to go up. I previously waited for my paralysed sisterand when she came we joined other people. When the people in line startedwalking, the man, who was holding me before, started shooting in theair. I know that he was shooting in order to scare us. I did not hear gunfireother than this. As we were walking up the street, some 15 or 20 metresaway from our yard, near the entrance to Selman Gashi’s house, whenpeople from that house started coming out of the yard, I saw that they keptSelman and told him, ‘You with the white cap, you are staying with us’.Then they went inside his yard together with him.187