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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubthe had not gone into the courtyard where the shooting took place - at themain trial when he gave a new statement intending, obviously, to describejust what he had seen, while speaking about what he had not seen, hewas using the phrase “I suppose”, which makes it quite clear that witnessStoparić obviously did not want to describe something he was not an eyewitnessof and find himself in a situation where he would falsely charge theparticipants in the event with something he did not see them do.The data about the types of arms - automatic rifles identified by an expertwitness on the basis of the cartridge cases found on the spot - are corroboratedby the witness’s statement that the plaintiffs had been shot at fromexactly this type of firearms, the type that the members of the Scorpionsunit were armed with.The commander of SAJ, Zoran Simović, was not present at the crime sceneat the moment of the crime, but he was, like other members of SAJ and ofthe Department of the Interior in Podujevo, near the crime scene and allof them learned immediately that a large group of women and childrenhad been killed. On that day, 19 civilians of Albanian nationality had beenkilled, 14 in a courtyard, two in a teahouse and three in a house in Podujevo.Witnesses Nebojša Orlović - the commanding officer of the Departmentof the Interior in Podujevo, Milan Radulović from the same Department,Nebojša Maljević - assistant to the commander of the Departmentof the Interior of Podujevo, Milan Anastasijević, inspector, and RadislavJanković, criminology technician of the Department of the Interior in Podujevo,knew about the event the day it had happened.Witnesses Radislav Janković and Milan Anastasijević, together with the investigativejudge of the District Court in Prokuplje, Mijat Bajović, on 30March 1999, compiled the minutes of the investigation, photographed thecrime scene and collected some of the cartridge cases from the crime scene.In the afternoon hours, witnesses Orlović, Maljević and Radulović heardthe shooting of automatic firearms. They did not go to the crime scene, butthey knew that a large number of civilians had been killed, with witnessMaljević also stating that he had heard that the killing was carried out bythe members of the Scorpions unit. The killing took place, in his words, in ateahouse and in two houses. Witness Orlović heard that whole families hadbeen killed, including women, children and old men and women so that, in307