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Humanitarian Law Centernames on it, “just in case you meet our fathers somewhere”. The next day,Safet and Enver went to the hospital and spoke with Saranda and Jehona,but were afraid to ask about the boys, who were in the orthopaedic ward.Shelling forced the civilians to leave Koliq on 18 April. Selatin says that manypeople were killed. They went to Priština, where the police told them thateveryone from Podujevo was to go back home. At the gasoline station justoutside Podujevo, the police directed them to Šajkovac. Since all the housesin the village had been burned, the people went on to Sibovac. Only oneAlbanian house in that village had not been burned and looted, thanks toa Serb neighbour. They spent the night there and returned to Shajkovacthe next day. A few days later, the police told them they could return to the“liberated” parts of Podujevo. Some people did, but the majority stayed inthe woods. Those who returned were accompanied by Inspector NebojšaMaljević of the Podujevo police station who rode in a police car, and FaikJashari, a member of the Serbian delegation at the Rambouillet talks, in ablack Mercedes. Maljević took the Bogujevci brothers to their compound,went into the yard, and came back saying the houses were occupied.It was only after the arrival of the international forces in Podujevo that Selatinand Safet Bogujevci and Enver Duriqi entered the compound. In HalimGashi’s yard, they saw evidence of the crime. Selatin recounted:There were bloodstains on the whole path, all the way to the gate. Onewall of the old house and the yard wall were pockmarked with bullet holes.There were also traces of a child’s brain on the wall of the house. I found achild’s boot near the tap in the yard; marbles and women’s scarves werescattered all around. Enver’s wife’s watch had stopped at two minutes toeleven... I found my wife Shefkate’s identity card on the storage heater inour house. I didn’t find the bags we had packed and kept in the yard nearmy uncle’s house all during the war. We hadn’t had time to take them withus and somebody probably took them before the war ended. I found photographstaken with my camera in Dumnice village, thrown around anddamaged. We found 97 shell casings on a few square metres of ground inthe yard.A Serb at the morgue in Priština showed me a book in which 19 unidentifiedbodies were registered. According to the book, the bodies had been94