A subsequent report by Physicians for Human Rights stated that the security police believed Vula had sufficient authority to convince others in the Kosovo Albanian community to release the officers and, moreover, that the security police threatened Vula with death if the officers were not found.
Physicians for Human Rights later reported that conditions in the jail were unsanitary, and that Vula was forced to stand for three days and given no food other than bread and cheese at his interrogations.
At Prizren, Vula told an investigating judge that he had been in a village controlled by the KLA but that there was no fighting at the time, and that he provided medical assistance following a landmine explosion that killed five people and injured five others.
The director of the Gjakova hospital (a Serb) and three other civilians testified on his behalf; the court found him guilty, sentenced him to five months in prison, and released him for time served.
[4] Vula continued to experience threats to his safety after the end of the Kosovo War and the withdrawal of Serbian authorities.
[5] In the 1990s, most members of the Kosovo Albanian community boycotted Serbian state institutions and took part in parallel governing structures.
[6] Vula appeared in the seventeenth position on the LDK's electoral list for Gjakova in the 2000 Kosovan local elections.
[12][13] The LDK formed a coalition government with the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) after the election, and Vula served as a supporter of the administration.