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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable DoubtAs for my statement given to the same investigative judge in the Bijelo PoljePrison, I think it complies with the statement I gave here today. It is court’sduty now to inspect this statement and evaluate it in line with my wholedefence.”A part of the statement given on 18 July 2001 regarding the events in Podujevoespecially regarding the place where the persons were killed and whoordered the execution was read to the defendant. In this statement it wassaid that Slobodan Medić 4 aka “Guljo” ordered the executions. The defendantgave the following statement regarding this issue:“Investigative judge Mijat Bajović, whom I would like to see here and askhim some questions, had to write what was written in the record in orderto justify himself. There was no threat in Bijelo Polje.Regarding this statement I would like to say the following: I was tried in BijeloPolje because of a specific criminal offence and my lawyer was oreKalanj, who is my defence counsellor in this case, as well. He had alreadybeen hired. The investigative judge will have to explain to me why theydid not let me call an attorney whom I had already hired. The investigativejudge did not ask me whether or not I wanted a lawyer.”The defendant was asked whether there were any comments in ProlomBanja regarding the event in Podujevo. The defendant replied that therewere comments and that they were all trying to find out what happened,but they failed.The defendant was asked whether he knew Dejan Demirović and he said“No”.The court has no further questions for the defendant and informs him thathe has right to add to his statement anything he thinks it would be importantfor his defence. He replied:4 Dragan Medić69