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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtone of the policemen who had come with us, but, as nobody was comingout, I broke through the door of the house, with Rajko Olujić at my side.The first to come down the stairs was a man in his thirties, well built, whosearm was bent and he held it in a curious manner, curious to me, and since Iknew well all the terrorists’ tricks, I was suspicious and, in order to be safe,I pushed him with the butt of my rifle, and he fell down, but got up again.A woman behind him told me that his arm had been hurt. To make sure, Iremoved a part of his shirt; it was chequered, and saw that his arm abovethe elbow had a through-and-through bullet wound. For me, this meantthat we had a terrorist there. They were told, all of them, to come out. Therewere some ten persons in that house. From the other house, also, four orfive people came out, so that, all told, there were some ten people in thecourtyard. Among them, there were four or five children, the rest were menand women.Then Rajko told them to go out into the street. At the same time I saw Rajkocrying, that is, that there were tears in his eyes and I supposed he was goingthrough what my family, and his family, had gone through at the timeof the Operation Storm in Krajina. Rajko told them to go down the street.It was obvious that those people were loath to leave their houses and theircourtyard.In order to urge them to leave that place and go to the place Rajko was directingthem to, I fired a volley of a dozen rounds from my automatic rifle.This short volley was fired directly in the air and I can guarantee that,then, I didn’t wound anyone. Before that, before these people had left theircourtyard, that is, when these people had come out from their houses intotheir courtyard, I had seen in the street a certain number of the membersof our Scorpions unit. Those people were some 20 to 30 metres far from thecourtyard gate that Rajko and myself had come to. Of them all, I recognisedGoran Stoparić, a member of the Scorpions, Zlatko Lukić, also a member ofthe Scorpions and I think that Pavle Rokvić, also a member of the Scorpions,was with them. There were a couple more persons there, also members ofthe Scorpions, but I did not know them. The persons I mentioned and thosewho were with them could have seen that I had not harmed a single one ofthese people, nor killed anyone, nor caused them any harm whatsoever.267