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Humanitarian Law CenterAlthough we were forbidden to leave the buses, several members of theScorpions left the buses and I could see them start breaking into shops andboutiques and taking goods out of them. I was flabbergasted as I was followingthe orders given to me.Rajko Olujić then comes to me and invites me to come with him and lookfor suitable houses to billet our platoon. The idea was to have each platoonbilleted in a separate facility. Four policemen accompany us, some of themmight have been members of the Special Antiterrorist Unit, but I knownothing about that, they are supposed to show us the terrain as they havebeen there longer and knew what the situation in the town was. We starteddown a street, a bit further from the police station and from the buseswhere we had been staying. I didn’t know the name of the street, but wewent some 200 metres further down the street as the members of the SpecialAntiterrorist Unit had told us that the facilities close to the police stationand the place where the buses were parked had already been taken bymembers of other units which had come to Podujevo ahead of us.We came to a house that, in our opinion, could provide accommodationto our platoon, to a courtyard with the closed gate. It was a big gate, withits lowest third made of metal, the second third made of wood and the topthird also made of metal. I kicked the wooden part and it gave in. I am notsure who entered the courtyard first, myself or Rajko, but we did enter it together,also the members of the police accompanying us. In the courtyard,from my right-hand side as seen from the gate into the courtyard, I couldidentify a big two-storey house, two levels, and on my left also a single storeyhouse. Upon entering the courtyard, on my right, I saw a green handgrenade; I could not say what type of a grenade it was.Upon our entry into the courtyard, an elderly man came out of the houseon the left, holding some money and gold in his hand, and he said: “Wewill pay.” I told him: “We are not taking anything.” He then told us thatthere were some more people in the house. We told them to come out ofthe house. The elderly man who had come out with the gold called, uponour request, the people who were in the house and they came out, four orfive men and a woman with travelling bags. After that, in the other housein the same courtyard a noise could be heard. Had anybody invited themto come out, and I believe that somebody did, and that it must have been266