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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtto look for a house where a platoon could be accommodated. The membersof SAJ again told us that the houses were empty and that Serb houseswere marked with white towels hanging from the windows.Quite close to where our buses were parked we found a house with thegate closed. I broke down the wooden part of the gate and Rajko pulledthrough and opened the gate. Here, from a house standing to the left ofthe gate, a man in his forties came out and said to me, in Serbian, that therewere some more women and children in the house. The man was an Albanian(Šiptar) but he spoke excellent Serbian. Then we told those who werein the house to get out of the house, and they did, carrying things, suitcasesand travel bags. When they were all out of the house, there were aboutten of them, two men, one around 30 and the other around 40 years old.The man of 30 was holding a child and wore a black leather jacket. WhenI entered the house, I found his black belt, testifying to his mastery of themartial arts. The rest were women and children.Beside these two men, there was a third man, aged between 40 and 50,who was coming out of the house. He was rather short, grey of hair, wellbuilt, with a worn out suit and a yellowish striped shirt. As he was comingout of the house, he held his left arm under the coat. I pulled at his arm,automatically, for personal safety. A woman cried out then: ‘Don’t! His armhas been broken!’ I tore his shirt and saw on his left arm, in the shoulder, abullet wound. I slapped him, then, and told him: “Is this a broken arm or abullet wound?” By his build and constitution and everything else this manwas a member of KLA.One of the men said that in the house, in addition to the women and children,there was a paralysed woman.Commander Rajko and the men from SAJ ordered these persons to go outin the street and to line up. Rajko then said: ‘Let them go.’ I saw then tearsin commander Rajko’s eyes. We told them to run down the street and whilethey were running I fired a short volley high above their heads. I don’tknow where they had gone, but they did scatter down the street.After that, Rajko and I went back to the courtyard; the policeman had remainedat the entrance to the house while members of SAJ stood at the283