Protected witness testifies in Podujevo case

A protected witness in the 1999 Podujevo massacre case said today that he saw four paramilitaries holding civilians at gunpoint. The witness testified that he saw one of the accused Skorpioni (Scorpions) members Dragan Medic cock his riffle at the scene of the murders, in the family home of the ethnic Albanian family Gasi home in the Kosovo town of Podujevo. Protected witness testifies in Podujevo case 14 people were shot and killed there on March 28, 1999, during the war in Kosovo. Protected witness P1 resumed the testimony he started yesterday in front of the Belgrade War Crimes Court Zeljko Djukic, Dragan Medic, Dragan Borojevic and Miodrag Solaja have been indicted for this crime. The witness told the court that all the accused were in the yard when the crime happened and that he had heard Djukic and Medic shouting: “Kill that! What are you waiting for, up against the wall.” "I saw Medic taking the riffle and cocking it,” he said, adding that the defendant, along with Sasa Cvijetan, who was previously sentenced to 20 years in prison in a separate trial, held civilians at gunpoint and that shooting occurred soon after. He told the judges that upon as they returned to central Serbia from Podujevo, he told his fellow unit members that "someday someone will answer for this”. The indictment charges four members of the unit for the murder of 19 civilians, including women and children. MUP's command immediately after learning about the killings withdrew the paramilitaries from Kosovo.

Protected witness testifies in Podujevo case

14 people were shot and killed there on March 28, 1999, during the war in Kosovo.

Protected witness P1 resumed the testimony he started yesterday in front of the Belgrade War Crimes Court

Željko Đukić, Dragan Medić, Dragan Borojević and Miodrag Šolaja have been indicted for this crime.

The witness told the court that all the accused were in the yard when the crime happened and that he had heard Đukić and Medić shouting: “Kill that! What are you waiting for, up against the wall.”

"I saw Medić taking the riffle and cocking it,” he said, adding that the defendant, along with Saša Cvijetan, who was previously sentenced to 20 years in prison in a separate trial, held civilians at gunpoint and that shooting occurred soon after.

He told the judges that upon as they returned to central Serbia from Podujevo, he told his fellow unit members that "someday someone will answer for this”.

The indictment charges four members of the unit for the murder of 19 civilians, including women and children. MUP's command immediately after learning about the killings withdrew the paramilitaries from Kosovo.