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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtinvestigation was carried out. According to the record made at the scene inthe yard and the surrounding facilities on Kosančić Ivana Street, the corpsesof six children, five women, and five men were found; the description oftheir clothes and visible wounds was given in the report, but the autopsy ofthese bodies was not carried out. Four of these persons were registered asunidentified. The Priština Forensic Institute’s report states that 18 corpseswere transferred from Podujevo to that institute on 30 March 1999.After this event, the unit commanders in Podujevo arrived at the scene ofthe crime. They were furious and they cussed because of what happened.Because of this event, this unit was gathered and withdrawn from Podujevo,after which it was taken back to Vojvodina and was dissolved.Witnesses Radoslav Olujić, Slobodan Medić, Željko ukić, Zoran Vukšić,Sran Manojlović, Dragan Medić, and Dragan Marković were all at thescene after this event. In their statements they do not explain preciselywhat happened there, why the shooting occurred, and was it ordered. Weunderline that Dragan Marković, the SAJ doctor, arrived at the scene withseveral other persons and provided first aid to four small children. For therest of the people lying in the yard and other places, he declared death andgunshot wounds with fresh bleedings, which indicated that the crime happenedone or two minutes before he arrived. The persons who were in thecommand post and who were examined as witnesses also heard severallong bursts of gunfire. After being informed of the event, they immediatelywent to the scene and concluded that the Scorpions members committeda crime, and they specified that the defendants committed this crime.In his defence statement, defendant Cvjetan partially admitted that hecommitted this act explaining that he was shooting at the civilians whowere lined up next to the wall. He also added that he did that upon somebody’salleged order.Defendant Demirović, who is still at large, admitted that he was presentat the scene of the crime, but he claims that he did not shoot. However,his escape from prison points to his involvement in the commission of thiscrime.53