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Humanitarian Law CenterV. The defendants should be placed in detention because they are chargedwith the commission of a crime, for which mandatory detention is prescribed.Statement of ReasonsThe existence of the aforementioned criminal offences is founded onevidence gathered in investigation, as well as defendants Cvjetan andDemirović’s admission of guilt.After the war between the FR Yugoslavia and NATO Pact coalition, as wellas an armed conflict with the so-called KLA terrorist organisation members,broke out on 24 March 1999 at the territory of Kosovo, a reserve Ministryof Interior (MUP) SAJ unit was formed; they had the Scorpions patches ontheir uniform and as the members of the Yugoslav Armed Forces they weresent to Kosovo; on 27 March 1999, they arrived in Prolom Banja by buses;there they were issued with automatic weapons - 7.62 mm rifles with 150bullets; they cleaned the weapons and prepared themselves for combat. Afterthat, they headed to Podujevo in order to execute a task and, in the earlymorning of 28 March 1999, they arrived in Podujevo. Upon arrival, the busesparked in the centre of the town, and the commander of the unit, SlobodanMedić aka “Boca”, went to the town command post to make operationplans, while other unit members were ordered to stay by the buses for safetyreasons. Certain individuals did not follow this order and walked awayfrom the buses. Defendants Cvjetan and Demirović were among these individuals.They went to inspect the houses on Rahmana Morine and KosančićIvana Streets. They entered the yard of the house no. 15 carrying automaticrifles and ran into a group of civilians comprised of women, children, andseveral men. On that occasion, they used their automatic weapons andfired bursts of bullets at the civilians. They killed some of them, while otherswere wounded. By this act they committed a war crime against the civilianpopulation. The motives of such actions are inexplicable and a normalperson could not comprehend them.This factual background was determined by the Prokuplje InvestigativeJudge’s Investigation Record Kri. no. 21/99 from 30 March 1999, the sketchand photo documentation from the scene of the crime with a commentthat the scene with corpses stayed unchanged until 30 March 1999 when52