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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable DoubtPlaintiffs Safet and Selatin have also left the house earlier, leaving their familiesbehind - wives, children, mother, aunt and her daughter-in-law. Theyfirst learned that their families were killed on 14 April when they learnedthat their children - Saranda, Jehona, Fatos and Genc had survived andwere recovering in a hospital in Priština. From them, they learned that, besidethem and Lirrie, all those who had stayed together in the house hadbeen killed. Inquiring later on they learned that all of them had been buriedin the town cemetery. The exhumation of the bodies, which they attended,was carried out by KFOR, in the presence of Hague investigators.The plaintiffs identified the members of their families and the family of theirfriend, Enver Duriqi. Describing the place where the house in which membersof their families had remained, the witness - plaintiff Selatin Bogujevci- sketched the scene, explaining the position of his house and the houseof his uncles which was in the same courtyard. On the sketch the plaintiffalso drew the place where the corpses had been and which, generally, correspondedwith the sketch of the crime scene in the photo-documentationin the case files so the court, on the basis of these data, determined the siteof the event. Although the identity of the victims was determined on thebasis of statements of the plaintiffs, the fact was corroborated by the readingthe exhumation and autopsy reports.The court accepted the statements of plaintiffs Safet and Selatin Bogujevciand Enver Duriqi and the same persons assisted in the determination of thecrime scene, the sequence of events and identity of the victims, althoughthese plaintiffs have only indirect knowledge of the event itself. Still, whatthey had learned from their children who had survived the event is identicalwith the statements of those children at the main trial so that this is adatum corroborating the veracity of the plaintiffs’ statements.The plaintiffs - the surviving children - who had been heard at the main trialcould not decide on the number of persons who had fired at them andcould not, with certainty, identify these persons on the photographs. Theyidentified Saša Cvjetan, but not all of them could describe his behaviourand actions.However, their statements were corroborated by the statement of witnessGoran Stoparić. He used to be a member of the Scorpions unit and, at themain trial, on 10 December 2003, he had given an account of what he had303