 He also ordered all able-bodied Serbian men to be decapitated, the children and boys to be enlisted in the Janissaries, and the girls and women of that city to be given to his soldiers and commanders as slaves.Dimitrije, a youth of about twenty at the time, witnessed these scenes of anarchy, atrocity, and death.This experience evidently left an indelible impression on him, and he became obsessed with the transitiveness of life and the power of death.