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Humanitarian Law Centertogether in the house of Safet and Selatin Bogujevci. As a police vehicle hadstopped in front of their house, all of them went over to the house of Selatin’sand Safet’s uncle, located in the same courtyard. In the house therehad already been the father, mother, wife and the four children of theirfriend, Enver Duriqi. In that house, there were 20 people in total, amongthem an elderly man, the father of Enver Duriqi, 12 children between twoand 14 years of age and seven women, two of which were almost 70 yearsold. As quite a number of uniformed men had entered the courtyard and assome of them had even entered the house where these families had been,they began getting their things into travelling bags so they could leave.However, the men in uniforms told them to leave their travelling bags, toraise their hands and go out. While the plaintiffs and everybody else wereleaving the house, some of the uniformed men entered the house. After allthe plaintiffs had gone into the courtyard they were told to go into theirneighbour’s courtyard where all of them were searched.At that moment, Hamdi Duriqi, the father of Enver Duriqi, was taken awayfrom the group. After that, the search of the members of the grouped continuedand the mother of the plaintiffs - Lirrie, Jehona and Fatos - ShefkateBogujevci was separated from the group, while the others were told to goout in the street, opposite the police station. Then the plaintiffs saw howHamdi Duriqi and Seljman Gashi were taken into a restaurant, with soldierscoming after them, and then some of the plaintiffs heard the soundsof firearms shooting.After that, the group with the plaintiff in it was ordered to return to thecourtyard. Then they saw, in the courtyard, plaintiff Shefkate surroundedby some soldiers and crying and, in plaintiff’s words, spoke in Serbian,saying something like “they are just children”, so a soldier pushed her andshot at her, and when her children started crying and shouting “Mama!”the soldiers shot at her again. After that, the soldiers, as they are called bysome of the plaintiffs, fired at all of them. Plaintiffs Jehona and Lurie lostconsciousness so they could not decide on the number of people who hadfired at them, while from the statements of plaintiffs Fatos and Saranda itfollows that they had been shot at from at least two directions although,these plaintiffs, too, could not decide on the number of men who wereshooting at them. Plaintiff Saranda Bogujevci was hit 13 times in an arm,twice in a leg and once in the back. Plaintiff Fatos Bogujevci was wound-298