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Humanitarian Law Centerer known as Žuća, and they came later to Prolom Banja, in a vehicle. We returnedthe arms issued to us ten days later before leaving for Novi Sad. Wereturned the arms in Prolom Banja in the manner the arms were issued tous. We handed in automatic rifles and ammunition but kept our personalarms.While we were in Prolom Banja, nobody questioned or heard me, nor haveI heard about anybody else being heard or questioned. I thought it unusualthat we were returning although, while staying in Prolom Banja, we hadsome activities, and besides, NATO forces were expected to land in the areaof the Radan mountain. Communication systems which were supposed tooperate at the time of the landing were not installed. I am still a memberof the Scorpions, my name is still on the unit roll.Rajko Olujić was with me, as I had said, and, beside him, four members ofthe Ministry of the Interior, and I suppose they were from the Departmentof the Interior in Podujevo. I think they were present in the courtyard. It ispossible that they had also run after me, and I don’t know them, while Iknow well those whose names I have mentioned.”The defendant answered the last question of the presiding judge: “I wasnot given any order concerning people found in the houses. It is understoodthat, when the forces of the Ministry of the Interior enter houses, thearms found in the houses must be handed over, and I am being chargedwith robbery. It is a normal procedure that, should there be terrorists, theterrorists should be arrested at the moment of entering the house, andshould they fire at me, I would fire at them. Everybody knows, and behavesaccordingly, and I learned about it in the course of my schooling, that civiliansmust be left alone, they are not to be maltreated or fired at.”Asked whether it was understood, or whether there existed an order concerningthe removal of the civilians from the houses that the members ofthe Ministry of the Interior and some other units were entering, the defendantreplied: “The people who were there, and I mean other membersof the Ministry of the Interior, must have known something about this becausethey had allowed those people to go down the street. It’s true that,when I entered the house, I did say, louder, that they all had to leave thehouse because there was noise and talking in the house. In this case, I fol-280