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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtwhich had affected them on 28 March 1999, uncertainties and lack of consistencyin the description of the details are quite acceptable.Their pointing to defendant Saša Cvjetan as one of the participants in theevent is, therefore, quite logical despite all uncertainty, because the witnesseshave described to the court the event where their families had beendestroyed, without leaving an impression of persons who would want toblame the innocent. This was in particular seen at the time of identificationon the basis of photographs as the witnesses were shown an album of photographsfrom the case file. Not once did the witnesses point to a photographwith any degree of certainty. At that, one must bear in mind the factthat the album of photographs is incomplete because, although the Ministryof the Interior of the Republic of Serbia was asked to provide a full set ofphotographs of all the members of the Scorpions, the court was providedwith an incomplete set of photographs containing photos of only half themembers of the Scorpions unit.On the basis of the findings and opinions of the expert witnesses, psychologistsStanko Ivandić and Dušanka Garić, it has been determined that notone of the underage witnesses - the plaintiffs - suffers from cerebral impairmentwhich would induce a tendency toward confabulation, that the psychologicalstructure of these persons contains no symptoms of psychoticprocesses, mental impairment which is why these persons are capable ofconsciously controlling their behaviour in time and space. Their mental statuscorresponds to their chronological age; intellectual abilities of SarandaBogujevci and the underage Fatos Bogujevci have been determined abovethe average - that is, they belong to high intelligence category, while intellectualabilities of underage Lirrie are on the upper limit of the average andthose of Jehona Bogujevci at the average. All these witnesses - underageplaintiffs - in the opinion of the expert witnesses, are capable of rememberingthe events and reproducing them correctly.At the hearing during the main trial the said plaintiffs were very quiet andcomposed, trying to present the account of the event as faithfully as possible.In their statements, given without undue emotions, in their replies tothe questions put to them concerning both the said event and their presenthealth status, the witnesses left an impression of sincerity and the desire tospeak only about what had really happened. The uncertainties and lack of301