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Humanitarian Law Centerhe saw some people carried out from the courtyard, and Tutinac told himto pull out his unit without explaining why. This witness could not say anythingabout anyone from the Scorpions unit taking part in the shooting ofthe civilians. At the main trial he expressed an opinion that no one of theScorpions could have done that because they had arrived in Podujevo onlya short time ago and that he thought that the murders had happened earlier,before the Scorpions unit had arrived in Podujevo.Witness Dragan Medić, aka Guljo, also stated that he did not know whohad shot the civilians and the only thing he had seen at the crime scenewere the policemen carrying out civilians from a courtyard. Also, he statedthat he had not seen the defendant, Saša Cvjetan, nor Dejan Demirovićat the crime scene. At the main trial, the witness added a detail which hehad not mentioned earlier - namely that he had, allegedly, got sick beforethe place where the shooting had occurred and that his comrades had takenhim to the bus. This detail was first mentioned by his comrade, witnessŽeljko ukić, aka Brka. He, too, had heard the shooting, which was intense,and then saw the policemen, members of SAJ, taking out some corpses andwounded children from a courtyard. These witnesses, nicknamed Guljoand Brko, were mentioned by defendant Saša Cvjetan at the time he gavehis confession as the persons who had also been in the courtyard, and thepersons known as Guljo he even described as the man who, excited andangry, had said that all the persons from the courtyard should be lined upalong the wall and killed.At the hearing at the main trial these witnesses left an impression of peoplewho were not telling the truth and, in view of the fact that they werewarned that they were not obliged to answer the questions put to themif that would make them liable to criminal prosecution, it was logical thatthey did not want to describe their participation in this event and that theydid try to annul their criminal responsibility and that of their comrades -members of the Scorpions unit. These witnesses, also, changed their statementsat the main trial in relationship with what they had stated in the investigationso the court could not trust them even concerning the factsthey, as witnesses, were obliged to give. The court took the same attitudetoward the statement of witness Dragan Borojević who, like witness MilovanTomić, claimed that they did not know anything about the event inquestion except that, while they were staying in Podujevo, they had heard332