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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtgrave in Podujevo and the court has received the report referring to eightpersons who, as the victims killed, have been included into the indictmentand the lettering of the verdict, as well as three persons not included in theindictment. So, a report was issued for Shefkate Bogujevci, Nora Bogujevci,Shpend Bogujevci, Shehida Bogujevci, Shpetim Bogujevci, Sala Bogujevci,Fexhrie Llugaliu and Nefise Llugaliu. The cause of death in each case wasmultiple wounds inflicted by firearms.The court has accepted said reports as the information contained in thesereports agrees with the information contained in the statements of the witnessesand plaintiffs. The fact that not all bodies have been exhumed andautopsied is explained by the fact that the surviving plaintiffs, the membersof whose families had already been buried, did not allow new exhumationand autopsy. In view of the fact that the cause of death of all thepersons has been doubtlessly determined, not only on the basis of the saidreport, but first of all, on the basis of the statements of the plaintiffs, theeyewitnesses of the event, as well on the basis of written documentationcontained in the case files, the court has decided that new exhumation andautopsy are not necessary for the clarification of the facts.During the presentation of the evidence, other members of the Scorpionsunit were heard. All of them spoke about their movement through Podujevoat the critical time, but not one of them wanted to speak about essentialfacts, particularly who of the members of this unit did shoot the civilians.Still, from the parts of their statements certain conclusions could bedrawn.Thus witness Radoslav Olujić said that he did not know whether he saw thedefendant when he returned to assign accommodation to the members ofhis platoon, but he did know that, arriving to the place where the shootingcould be heard from, he saw the defendant quarrelling with a policeman.This witness, like witnesses Simović and Vulević, stated that, in frontof the courtyard where the killing of the civilians took place, beside defendantSaša Cvjetan, there were some other members of the Scorpions. Thispart of his statement about the quarrel between the defendant and witnessVulević is corroborated by the statement of witness Vulević, and thedefendant himself does not dispute the detail.313