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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable DoubtIn the early morning hours on this day, diverse military and police troopsfilled up the street. Approximately around 09:00, one unit, I do not knowwhat kind of unit it was, was on the street. I was looking at them fromthe window and among them I recognised some people from the placesaround Podujevo. Then, something significant happened. I saw fromthe window that one soldier pushed a metal fence, which was previouslylocked. He took a revolver that he carried on his waist and fired a bullet intothe lock and broke it, opened the door, and then some police officers or soldiersstarted entering the yard. In this moment I was coming down fromthe second floor. I was going to inform Tahiri and Jusufi families that therewere soldiers in the yard. I did not go through the yard. I went through thewindow. We intentionally left that window opened so that we could informeach other. These houses are located in the same yard. Actually, thatis a two-storey house with two entrances. I went to this other family and informedthem that a lot of troops came inside the yard. In this moment theyknocked on the door. Selim Tahiri opened the door and said welcome. Oneperson in uniform came in. He wore a green camouflage uniform and I onlyremember that he had police written on his back. In that moment whenthis person came inside the house, he told us that all men should go out ofthe house. When I went out I saw one person from the village that I knew.His name was Dragan Biočanin. He worked in the municipal building nextto the Defence and Protection Office. They searched all of us and asked formy ID card, which was in my back pocket and I wanted to take it out.One police officer said, ‘I will get the ID card for you’. My ID card was in mywallet. He took my wallet and looked at my ID card. It was there togetherwith my driver’s license and some money. He checked my ID card and putit back. Dragan Biočanin and another two soldiers or police officers, I amsure they were police officers, took Selim Tahiri and Isak Jusufi. It seemedas if he took them for some kind of protection and went inside Ferhi Ibrahim’s67 yard.Then, they went out of this yard and went inside some other yard; I do notknow whose yard it was. While they were in that yard, a lot of police officerscame in the yard where we were and started checking everything.When they took Selim and Isak back one of the police officers asked for67 Ferki Ibrahimi193