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Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable DoubtShpetim without his head, and Enver’s son Arbër with his face blown away.Saranda, Jehona, Fatos and Genc were all hit in several places on the bodyand in the left hand. They remember someone giving them first aid andbeing driven to the Pristina hospital in an ambulance. Lirrie was taken fromthere to Belgrade where she was in hospital until 10 October 1999.More deaths in Ivana Kosančića StreetSelim and Idriz Tahiri were killed and Nazim Veseli wounded the same dayin Ivana Kosančić Street. Nazim and Isak Jusufi, who survived unscathed,recounted to me what happened. There were some 50 people in the houseof Nazim’s uncle when the police came at about 10 o’clock. The police werein camouflage uniforms and Nazim saw they had local Serbs as guides. Herecognised Dragan Biočanin, who worked in the local administration onterritorial defence and military affairs. Biočanin’s brother Boban was alsothere.Dragan took Selim Tahiri to lead them to other houses. A lot of policemenstayed with us; the yard was full of them. One said the men should be takento the police station. Selim had been brought back in the meantime. Theytook me, Selim, Idriz, and Isak and led us out into the street, and then backagain and into the entrance hall of the house. Then Boban Biočanin camein and said, “What are you doing here, f... you!” He started firing at usright away. We were lined up. He shot me first, then Selim, Idriz and Isak.He emptied his gun firing at us. I was hit me twice, in the stomach and theright arm, below the elbow. We fell down and they didn’t check to see ifanyone was still alive. They left. Our people bundled me and Isak over thewall and carried us to the Lab river where there were a lot of people.AftermathSaša Cvjetan and Dejan Demirović, former members of the Serbian policeforce and reservists in the Scorpion unit, have been charged with warcrimes against the civilian population under Art. 142 (1) of the YugoslavCriminal Code. They are currently on trial before the District Court in Prokuplje,Demirović in absentia since he is still at large. The specific charges arethe murders of four identified and several unidentified persons, and the97