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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtthere was a fountain and I saw a dead woman on the path in front of thehouse. And in this house in the second courtyard there were corpses inthe courtyard, I don’t know how many. I think they were civilians, I don’tknow if there were any women and children, but it was a terrible scene forme. These corpses were along the house, near a wall, and as I said, I sawa corpse on the path. Later I learned it was Gulja’s group. Gulja is Boca’sbrother and he wore his hair long, like Boca, and I think his family namewas Medić. When we were taken, in buses, to Prolom Banja, I heard the story,like all other members, that something terrible had happened, that Guljahad ordered all those people killed. I learned that these men and womenwere lined up and shot, but who ordered them to be lined up and whoshot them I don’t know. I heard in Prolom Banja, as everybody was talkingabout it, that they should be lined up and killed, that it was Gulja who orderedthe killing, but I can’t say for sure, but that was the story.”The defendant was told that, in his statement given before the investigativejudge in Prokuplje and entered into the minutes of the questioning, on 24May 1999, he had said: “Then we were shooting from a number of firearms,there were ten to 12 pieces of firearms. I was shooting, Guljo was shooting.I did not fire more than ten rounds. The youth who had searched them wasshooting, six or seven more people were shooting. All those lined up werehit and they fell down, in a pile, one over the other.”The defendant responded: “I say this is not true. I was threatened andforced to say this for the minutes. I don’t know whose nickname is Vuk, andSimović he was the commander of the Belgrade SAJ and we were told topull back into the buses. It is true that Boca had said: ‘You motherfuckers,I can’t leave you a moment alone without you causing some shit’. I thinkthey had no idea whatsoever of what the platoons commanded by Guljaand Žuća were doing.In two buses, we were returned to Prolom Banja and there was ŽivkoTrajković and he was wounded. He greeted us. When we came to ProlomBanja, we realized a platoon was missing, Žuća’s platoon. We had been inthe field for an hour or two; it was only in the evening that Žuća was transportedin a truck by someone from SAJ, and we did not even know wherehis platoon was and what they were doing.289