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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable DoubtVuk, too, was in the dark about this, I think it was so because they said everythingwas clean.Guljo and his men were late for the line up; we were ordered to board thebuses, a volley or two could still be heard and Boca told Rajko to return andsee as there probably were some of our men there. Rajko came back withthose men and at that moment a number of sniper shots were heard andwe were one hundred percent sure it was KLA shooting at Žućo’s group.We stayed some ten days in Prolom Banja and were told to keep silentabout all this. Colonel Trajković thanked us for carrying the assignment andfrom then on we knew we belonged to the SAJ Reserve Corps. They toldus they would call us when we were needed and that we could go homethen. Immediately we left the rifles and the ammunition in Prolom Banjaand left for Belgrade. I know we were thanked by a minister whose name Icannot remember. We were also told that we would hand in the uniformsin Novi Sad and that it would be in one place. They told us we would be issuedoveralls when we were engaged next time.I am saying that every order must be carried out, not only in a special operationsunit, but in every single special operations unit, irrespective of theconsequences. I did not see a single child there, but I did explain a momentago that all orders must be carried out. The immediate commander on thespot was Guljo and we followed his orders.”At the time of questioning in the preceding trial before he investigativejudge of the District Court in Prokuplje, in the premises of the prison in BijeloPolje, on 18 July 2001, the defendant stated:“I am stressing the fact that I am a member of the Reserve Corps of the SpecialAntiterrorist Unit (SAJ). I think, I am not sure, that at that time SAJ belongedto the Government of Serbia. The SAJ commander at the time wascolonel Živko Trajković. SAJ was paying my salary normally; the unit commander,Boca Medić, handed out our salaries. I know this happened atthe time NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia and, on 24 March 1999, BocaMedić, who leads the Scorpions unit as part of the SAJ, called me and I acceptedhis invitation, and he told me that an attack on our country hadbeen launched. I came from Novi Sad, that is, I came to Petefi Šandor Street285