Untitled

Humanitarian Law CenterAfter these people had gone out into the street, I went back to check therooms of the house where the members of our platoon should be billeted.In one of the rooms upstairs, on the right, I discover a uniform and foundgrenades, several grenades in a box. In another room, on the left, I founda Zbrojovka M-75 pistol, of Czech make, with a round already in the barrel,of which I made sure by removing the clip and repeating the pistol. While Iwas in the house, I heard individual and volley shots from a number of firearmsin the immediate vicinity, from the direction we came from, from thedirection opposite to the one these people had gone. We had come fromthe bus, from completely opposite direction to the one that the men, womenand children who had come out of the houses that we had entered.I went out in the street, thinking our unit had been attacked, that the Scorpionsand the Special Antiterrorist Unit had been under attack. Togetherwith Stoparić, Zlatko Lukić and Pavle Rokvić I was running in the directionthe shots were coming from.We ran along the street for some two to three hundred metres, in fact, wewere going through the courtyards, not along the street, and when wereached a house, through a narrow passage, and entering the courtyard Isaw, on my left, on a concrete path, a dead woman lying and, to the rightof her, I saw some six or seven corpses. I saw they were civilians. This wasa very unpleasant experience for me.At that moment, I heard some noise in the street, I turned and I saw somemembers of the Priština battalion and some Scorpions. At that moment, inthe courtyard, I didn’t see any members of the Scorpions, nor any membersof any other formations present in Podujevo at that moment. Withthe three already mentioned members of the Scorpions I went out into thestreet where I found people shouting, talking. At the moment, a number ofthe members of the Special Antiterrorist Unit appeared, one of them I knewwas called Vuk, I don’t remember his family name, and, as he had seen meand the boys who had come out with me, he began cursing us. I cursedhim in return. We squabbled for a while.At that moment, the Scorpions commander, Slobodan Medić, aka Boca, arrivedat the scene and angrily addressed his own brother, Dragan Medić,aka Guljo, and then Crni, and Žuća and Slobodan Marić. There were some268