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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubtbrought there by Milan Anastasijević of the civil defence. I don’t knowwhen they were buried. Tefik Gashi, the pathologist who examined thebodies, told me the belongings found on them were taken by forensicsInspector Živojin “Žika” Cvetkovic. We found 19 unmarked graves at thecemetery, and three with the names Amdi Duriqi, Isma Duriqi, and FitneteShabani.Killed in Halim Gashi’s yardSeven children and seven women were shot to death in Halim Gashi’s yard:Shpetim (born in 1989) and Shpend (1986), the sons of Safet Bogujevci;his wife Sala (1960); Nora (1984), the daughter of Selatin Bogujevci; hiswife Shefkate (1956); Shehide Bogujevci (1932); Nefise Bogujevci Llugaliu(1945), the sister of Selatin and Safet; her daughter-in-law Fexhrie Llugaliu(1978); Dafina (1990), Arbër (1992), Mimoza (1995), and Albion (1997),the children of Enver Duriqi; Fitnete nee Shabani (1963), wife of Enver; andEsma (1930), Enver’s mother. Saranda (1985), Safet’s daughter; and Selatin’schildren Fatos (1986), Jehona (1990), Vukumirović (1990), and Genc(1993) were seriously wounded. Enver Duriqi’s father, Hamdi, was killedthe same day in the “Drini” bar.The children rememberThe children told their fathers and the Hague tribunal’s investigators whathappened after Selatin, Safet, and Enver left the compound. Selatin wouldcall me on the phone or write to tell me what they had said:After the three of us left, my family and Safet’s moved over to my uncle’shouse, where the Duriqis were. When the police started going into houses,the mothers decided it would be safer out in the street. Enver’s father[1928] Hamdi was the only man with them. They were just leaving thehouse when a group of uniformed men came into the yard and stoppedthem. The children say there were a lot of them, in camouflage and policeuniforms. They remember a tall policeman with longish hair and an earring,an older and shorter one with a beard, and a very young policeman with amilitary cap with visor that was flat on the top. They say the youngest onesearched them the most. He checked their bags and didn’t let them take95