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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtfused because proper organisation was lacking, because we didn’t have thebare necessities, like bandages, systems of communication, so I refused. Irepeat that the Scorpions were members of SAJ and I was a member of theScorpions.I can’t remember the date exactly, but I know it was toward the end ofMarch or the beginning of April, but I don’t remember the day. I knowthat, in the evening, they told me, my platoon commander, Rajko Olujić,told me we were going to cleanse the terrain in Podujevo, and other menwere told, by their platoon commanders, that tomorrow was the date togo. In the morning we were off, in two buses waiting in front of the hotel;there were two full buses when we started from Prolom Banja. I know generalPavković was in Prolom Banja, but he did not make contact with us,he often changed his residence in wartime. I know a military vehicle wasin front of us, but I say I don’t know if it was armoured personnel carrier.There was a jeep up front, that is, several vehicles, and they were going inthe direction of Podujevo.When we arrived in Podujevo, I saw quite a lot, I don’t know how manyexactly, members of SAJ, and we were met by the members of SAJ, andthere also were members of special police units, but I didn’t see any militaryunits. When we got out of the buses, commander Boca went to attenda meeting; we got out and we were told by Rajko Olujić to take residencein the surrounding houses, that each platoon should take a house and remainstationed in those houses. When we got out of the buses and startedtoward the houses we found members of SAJ who had earlier come to theterrain and they told us: ‘Here we are, in these houses, and you go a littlefurther on, into those houses’ and that meant that we should go into thosehouses and take accommodation in them.Our unit was told so by Rajko Olujić while other commanders informed otherunits. After leaving the two buses, some people broke into the shops andboutiques and took what they wanted from those shops. I didn’t know anyoneof those people to be able to identify those who broke into the shopsand took things from them. When we arrived to those houses, the membersof SAJ said that the terrain had been cleansed and made secure. RajkoOlujić told me to go with them and take a look at the house we weresupposed to go into. We entered the house and there were two members287