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Humanitarian Law Center“Previously, In Prolom Banja, we were issued with weapons, automatic rifles.Sran Manojlović handed them to us. We received the rifles and I do not thinkthere was any official issuing process. I do not think the numbers were writtendown.”The first instance court had significant, valid, and first-class evidence to concludethat the Scorpions members were not issued with weapons accordingto the serial numbers of rifles. First of all, the statements given by the defendanthimself, then Sran Manojlović, who issued the weapons, SlobodanMedić, who was the commander of the Scorpions unit, and all Scorpionsmembers, except Olujić represent evidence.Therefore, the Supreme Court’s request for the ballistic examination of SašaCvjetan’s rifle is unrealistic, illogical, impossible, and completely senselesssince it is not certain which of the rifles Cvjetan carried that day. This requestwas the result of the false presentation of the material facts in the SupremeCourt’s decision based on Cvjetan’s case file from the district court.3) The Supreme Court found another reason for the dismissal of the first instanceverdict in the fact that the verdict says that 11 bodies were autopsiedwhile it is said in the text of the verdict that 14 Albanian women and childrenwere executed. Because of this, the Supreme Court believes that the cause ofdeath is not identified for each person and it is not certain what lead to thatcause; we do not have wounds for each body with the detailed descriptionof their location and the instrument they were inflicted by. The first instancecourt had a foothold in most of the evidence adduced in the proceedings fordetermining the number of executed and wounded persons, the locationswhere the execution took place, and the weapons used for the execution, firstof all, the examination of the children who were at the scene and who survivedthe execution, and whose mothers, sisters, brothers, and other relativeswere killed. The serious consequences of the wounds and permanent disabilityare very visible in the children. Then, the statement given by the SAJ doctor,Dragan Marković, who was taking the wounded persons from the sceneof the crime, provided them with the first aid, and placed them in the ambulance;the statement given by the Belgrade SAJ Commander Zoran Simović;and SAJ officer Spasoje Vulević, who appeared at the scene of the crime severalmoments after the shooting took place and personally took the survivors out;the statements given by the Prokuplje District Court investigative judge Mi-226