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Humanitarian Law CenterFor me, cleansing the terrain is number one - that is, orders given by superiorsare followed. Orders must be carried out, which means members ofKLA should be killed, not the civilians. My platoon commander was RajkoOlujić. Both Gulja and Rajko could order me around. I have no connectionswith Gulja. I was arrested by the police in Novi Sad, by two civilians whotold me ‘Don’t resist or we’ll snuff you’. They took my pistol.When I was giving my statement to the investigative judge there were nothreats, and when I was giving my statement to the police I was threatened.I repeat that I did not shoot the people at all, but I did fire into the air.”While presenting the evidence, upon an agreed upon motion of the parties,the court read the statements of the witnesses heard before the DistrictCourt in Belgrade and the plaintiffs who were heard before the DistrictCourt in Belgrade, namely: Keča Duško, Filipović Miroslav, Filipović Svetlana,Oparnica Miloš, Klikovac Duško, Marković Dragan, Anastasijević Milan,Janković Radislav, Maljević Nebojša, Petrović Tomislav, Dabetić Mitar,Fabijanić Predrag, Orlović Nebojša, Radulović Milan, the plaintiffs BogujevciSelatin, Bogujevci Lirrie, Bogujevci Jehona, Bogujevci Fatos, BogujevciSaranda, Bogujevci Safet, the witnesses ukić Željko, Olujić Radoslav,Medić Dragan, Medić Slobodan, Kovačević Nikola, Radić Aleksandar,Mitrović Petar, the plaintiff Duriqi Enver, the witness Gjata Fljorim, StoparićGoran, the plaintiff Kastrati Rexhep, the witness Veseli Nazim, SmiljićZdravko, Šolaja Miodrag, Cekić Nebojša, Tomić Milovan, Borojević Dragan,Simović Zoran, Vulević Spasoje, Manojlović Sran, and read the followingwritten depositions: the minutes of the crime scene investigation dated 30March 1999, with photo documentation and the sketch of the crime sceneattached to the minutes of the crime scene investigation; the letter of thehead of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Dr. Slaviša Dobričanin, dated6 March 1999; a report on the discovery of 19 corpses on the territory ofPodujevo Municipality, dated 9 April 1999; the minutes of the bodily searchof persons dated 21 May 1999; the report of the Ministry of the Interior ofthe Republic of Serbia dated 11 March 2002; inspected photographs of themembers of the Scorpions unit submitted by the Ministry of the Interior ofthe Republic of Serbia to the District Court in Belgrade on 4 July 2003, andthe report of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia bearing290