Mick sends a link from MSN which reports that Slobodan Praljak, a Bosnian-Croat commander who was convicted of war crimes during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, drank a vial of poison in The Hague courtroom when a judge read a ruling against him and five other defendants.
The apparent courtroom suicide, which was broadcast on a video feed, came in the final minutes of the last judgment at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which closes next month.
“I just drank poison,” he said. “I am not a war criminal. I oppose this conviction.”
After gulping down the drink, Praljak sat back down and slumped in his chair, a lawyer who was in the courtroom at the time said. U.N. court representatives and Dutch hospital officials declined to comment on his condition.
One has to wonder about the security measures they have in these courtrooms. But, at least justice was done on behalf of his victims. He was convicted of committing “ethnic cleansing” of Muslims;
The ICTY, established in 1993 by the U.N. Security Council, indicted 161 war crimes suspects from Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. Of the 83 convicted, more than 60 of them were ethnic Serbs.
The court’s lead suspect, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, died of a heart attack in March 2006 months before a ruling in his genocide case.
Slavko Dogmanovic and Milan Babic, two other convicts were found hung in their cells more than ten years ago in separate incidents.
Did he order that from room service or something?
“Yes, I’ll take the strychnine special please”
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That is, IMHO, a wee bit drastic.
But then, I’m not a [suspected] war criminal.
Did ICTY contract out their security to the Keystone Kops ?
Probably blue helmets from all over the place. So to answer your question, yes.
Ambassador Worldwide Protective Agency, under the astute supervision of Turd Bolling.
What did he have, a shot of strychnine with a vodka chaser?
What a Rommelian drama queen!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poisonings
Dunno why you mentioned Rommel. He was forced to commit suicide, which he did to keep his wife & son safe.
Rommel was actually one of the few honorable soldiers in a position of authority in Germany.
If I had to actually splain my sarcasm, you most probably would not understand.
Sorry, you did not get it.
I’ll drink to that.
Didn’t we have one of those suicides (Hermon Goring) during the Nurnberg trials?
Goebbels poisoned himself just before he was to be hanged, if I’m correct it was via a cyanide capsule smuggled to him by his wife during a visit just prior.
My mistake, Goehring poisoned himself before his scheduled execution via hanging, Goebbels shot his wife and himself shortly after they poisoned their children.
And Himmler poisoned himself when the British found out who he was, not the Wehrmacht sergeant he was trying to pass himself off as.
No…I believe too, that it was Goring!
It was Hermann Göring, thank you very much.
I’ll just leave this here…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrEwCa8nSA
Such a drama queen….
Does the Hague have a prison for these International War Criminals? Do they re-open Spandau Prison for something like this?
The Yugoslav tribunal has a “detention unit” for people on trial, but they transfer them to other countries to serve their sentences.
http://www.icty.org/en/press/mile-mrk%C5%A1i%C4%87-transferred-portugal-serve-sentence
Let’s all squeak out a tear for poor old Slobodan.
Or not. AMF, Slobo.
With a name like Slobodan how could he not grow up to become a war criminal?
His parents should have named him something like Ollie or Toby.
or….”Lesthanaslob” ?
Wish Bergdahl would take notes on this.
And The Wannabe-Eunuch Bradley Manning…
Some folks like water
Some folks like wine
But I like the taste
Of straight strychnine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Nffq0bOgE
maybe Hillary should take note of this as well as a few others, without naming those others but we all do have some favs for this form of demise, I’m sure from past comments here
How the hell did a guy at a War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague get a vial of poison and wander into the courtroom with it? His guard must have been, like
“what is that”
“poison, I’m going to drink it”
“oh, ok then let’s go”
good for him! he did the right thing. better dead than fed!
I’m wondering if the current crop of lefty sex predators are watching his method of disagreeing with the court.
Here’s hoping that at least a few of them take the Darwin path to immortality !!!
So the lesson here is don’t lose the war and don’t let the fucking Hague decide your fate.
The winners dictate the terms.
In the Balkans this move will make him a long remembered folk hero, as so many there didn’t find the killing of muslims to be a bad idea.