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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable DoubtProkuplje dated 24 May 1999, the confession of the defendant is essentiallyidentical with the statements of the eyewitnesses of the event. The defendantdescribed the event in connection with plaintiff Rexhep Kastrati, anddid later, in his defence, give a more detailed description of the event. Besides,even at that time, the defendant admitted that he had appropriateda pistol from a house and has not changed his statement later on in his defence.At the time of the same questioning the defendant admitted that he,together with a person known as Gulja, and a youth who had previouslysearched the civilians, and six or seven more persons, had shot at a groupof civilians who were in the courtyard near the courtyard that the group ofcivilians, together with witness Rexhep Kastrati, had previously left.It is interesting to note that the description of the place where all this hadhappened agrees with the statement of witness Rexhep Kastrati, and thechronology of the event and what had happened inside - in the Gashi familycourtyard - agrees with the statements of the plaintiffs, the surviving childrenof the Bogujevci family and the statement of witness Goran Stoparić.In his defence, at this place, the defendant describes the person who wassearching the group of civilians as a short person, the youngest personof the group, which agrees with the description given by Fatos Bogujevciand witness Goran Stoparić and which refers to witness Miodrag Šolaja,aka Zicko. The defendant also described, in great detail, how one of thosepresent removed a blonde woman from a group, pushed her toward thewall, took her along the path toward the house, and then shot at her, sothe woman fell down on the concrete path. After that, as the defendantstated, he and Gulja, and the youth who was searching the civilians andsome six or seven other men shot at the group of civilians. In the wordsof the defendant, all those lined-up were hit and fell down in a pile, oneupon the other, and those who had been shooting went out into the street.All these details agree completely with the description of the event givenby the plaintiffs - the children of the Bogujevci family and witness GoranStoparić; and agree with the photographs where one can see the positionof the body of Shefkate Bogujevci, the mother of plaintiffs Fatos, Lirrie andJehona Bogujevci - the blonde woman in the description of the defendant,and other bodies in the courtyard.327