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Humanitarian Law Centerseen on the spot. On 28 March 1999, the Scorpions unit arrived in Podujevowhere there had already been a large number of policemen so that,after getting off the buses - because there was bombardment - and aftera short walk around the town, they were directed toward the street wherethey intended to go to and look for a house suitable for accommodation.When he came to a house with an amphora-like passage - a roof connectingtwo houses - and entered the house he concluded, on the basis of thethings in it, that the people had left the house a short time ago. Then, inthe words of witness Stoparić, he went out, in front of the house, and thensaw a group of civilians, women and children and a single man, enteringthe courtyard accompanied by defendant Saša Cvjetan. A number of themembers of the Scorpions unit had already been in the courtyard and hesaw Šolaja, Aleksandar Dabić, Zdravko Smiljić, Neboja Cekić and DraganBorojević, while with the civilian there came Dragan Medić and another policeman,from the Active Police Corps. When the civilians entered the courtyard,Šolaja, whose nickname is Zicko, started searching them, but MilovanTomić stopped him and said that it would be best if the civilians were takeninto the street. Stoparić and Tomić left the courtyard with the civilians and,with them, Nebojša Cekić and the policeman.After the civilians had gone down the street some 20 to 30 metres, a memberof the police told them to get back. In witness Stoparić’s words, thegroup consisting of women and children just turned and came back intothe courtyard, this time without the only man who had been with them.Stoparić was standing at the gate and when the women and childrenpassed him by and entered the courtyard, he was not looking any more inthe direction they had gone to, but in another direction.The shooting was heard then - unsynchronised shooting, said the witness- from a number of firearms, four or five automatic rifles. The witness surmisedthat it was the civilians in the courtyard who were being shot at, buthe did not go into the courtyard and remained in the same place. Afterthat, members of the Scorpions unit started coming out of the courtyard -first Dabić and Smiljić who had come from the stairs and he supposed theyhad come out of the house, and after them there came Dragan Medić, SašaCvjetan, Dragan Borojević and Dejan Demirović and all of them, exceptDemirović, were replacing cartridge clips on their rifles while walking.304