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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable DoubtOn 28 March 1999, in concert with several other persons in Podujevoaround 10:00, in the time of war between the Federal Republic of Yugoslaviaand NATO Pact Coalition, which began with the NATO Pact’s bombingof the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’s territory on 24 March 1999, as wellas during the armed conflict with the KLA armed troops, as a member ofthe Republic of Serbia Ministry of Interior reserve unit known as the Scorpions,in violation of the IV Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection ofthe Civilian Persons in Time of War from 12 August 1949, provisions of Article2 Paragraph 1, Article 3 Paragraph 1 Item 1 and Paragraph 2 Item a)and c), as well as the provisions of the Additional Protocol I relating to theProtection of Victims of International Armed Conflict 51, 76, and 77 and AdditionalProtocol II relating to the Protection of Victims in Non-InternationalArmed Conflict Articles 4 and 13, he treated the civilian persons inhumanlyand participated in the commission of murder of several women and childrenand in the infliction of wounds upon several Albanian children.When he arrived with the unit to Podujevo at the intersection of KosančićIvan Street and Rahman Morina Street where several Albanian houses arelocated, he entered Sabit Gjata’s house where Rexhep Kastrati gave him1,000 German marks so that he would let the civilians leave the house. Hetook the money and pointed his automatic rifle at Kastrati’s chest, orderedcivilians to get out of the house. When they went out on the street withthe residents of other houses, who were also ordered to leave the houses,formed a line in Rahman Morina Street, the defendant yelled that he wouldkill them all, he hit Kastrati with the gunstock in the face, and fired a burstof gunfire in the air in order to make them move faster.Then he entered a house owned by an unidentified Albanian, searchedit, and confiscated and kept for himself a pistol “Zbrojovka”, made in theCzech Republic, M-9 type, 9 mm calibre, serial number D 4754 and 15 9mm bullets. Then, he left the house and went on the street where alreadya group of women and children was because they were previously forcedto leave their houses.He went together with them inside Gashi family’s yard and, in concert withseveral other persons in this yard, fired several rounds from his 7.62 mm automaticrifle known as a Kalašnjikov at the group of women and children.205