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Humanitarian Law Centernot sure because they would start to feel sick one after another. They wererecording what they could and leaving the scene.The place where this pile of bodies was is on the concrete near the house.I think the area was fenced. I think they had tall walls as a fence aroundthis house. One police officer went with me to the place where the pile ofbodies was and he said he was sick of the sight. I think he was a police officerfrom the Podujevo Secretariat of Interior who was guarding the scene.There was also a technician in this yard and he was taking pictures of thecorpses. There was a pile of corpses against the wall on the concrete andit was not very high, but it was wide. I am talking about the wall of thehouse. I remember one specific detail. One woman on this pile had a childby her head and another child lay at her breast and she held this child’shead with her other hand. The bodies had clothes on. They were not coveredwith anything. This police officer, who was guarding the scene, wasalready there when I arrived.Now I cannot remember how many corpses there were, but everything Ifound there I put on the record. I was personally counting the bodies and,as far as I could, I tried to categorise the corpses by stating the relation betweenthem, mother and child, gender, and approximate age. When I wascounting the corpses I had to lift them, but then I returned them to the previousposition. Now I do not know if I counted the corpses first or the techniciantook the photos of them before this. On this occasion I had a notepadin which I wrote information, which I later on used to compose the investigationrecord. Now, I cannot remember the number of corpses, but Iwrote down this number on the record. I was the only one who composedthis record. I do not know if anybody else made the record of the situationat the scene. Whatever I found at the scene I put on the record. Nobodylifted, moved, or counted the corpses in my presence. I was alone in theyard for some time because the police officers would start to feel sick andthen leave the yard. Then I demanded that the commander sends somebody,who could deal with the situation without getting sick, to secure thescene.Since I was presented with a part of witness Milan Anastasijević’s statementwhere he said that he did not inspect the bodies and he believes that the investigativejudge did not inspect them either, I have to say that this is com-236