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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtthe killing of the civilians took place because, at that very moment, Dr DraganMarković, a SAJ physician, was giving medical assistance to the civilians.He did everything in order to assist the wounded civilians in the senseof providing an ambulance for the transport to medical facilities. He calledthe Scorpions commander, Slobodan Medić, and ordered the members ofthe Scorpions to return to Prolom Banja, which they did.Witness Spasoje Vulević, also a member of SAJ, stated that on 28 March1999, upon arrival of the Scorpions, he took two platoon commanders ofthe unit, as he was ordered, to show them the houses where they were tobe accommodated. He showed them two houses, one near the other in thestreet, forming a right angle relative to the main street, and left them therewhile he went toward the place where the members of his group were.Some ten to 15 minutes later, he heard the shooting of uninterrupted volleysfrom a number of automatic rifles. Judging that the shooting was comingfrom the place where the members of the Scorpion were to be accommodated,he went there and found some 40 members of the Scorpions inthe street in front of those two houses.When he entered the courtyard he saw a pile of bodies. Among the corpsesthere were persons who were still alive so the witness approached themin order to help and, at the same time, was calling for the physician, DraganMarković, who soon arrived and examined those still alive. Together,they put them into military vehicles marked with the Red Cross. WitnessSimović stated that he remembered that help was given to three girls anda boy, and that, among the pile of dead bodies there were seven or eightchildren, aged six months to seven or eight years old, and four women. Aftertaking care of the surviving children, the witness, in his words, went outin the street and asked the members of the Scorpions to tell him who haddone that, but nobody answered him.Witnesses Mitar Dabetić and Predrag Fabijanić are also the members of SAJwho were, on 28 March 1999, in Podujevo, as escorts of the commander ofthe Priština unit of SAJ. Both witnesses, during the time the meeting of theirsuperiors was held, heard the shooting coming from the place near thepolice station, the shooting from automatic rifles. Witness Fabijanić wentto the crime scene, some 200 to 300 metres from the building where thecommand headquarters were and saw that it was a courtyard where there309