{"id":76233,"date":"2017-11-29T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76233"},"modified":"2017-11-29T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:03:26","slug":"slobodan-praljak-poisons-himself-in-courtroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76233","title":{"rendered":"Slobodan Praljak poisons himself in courtroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mick sends a link from MSN<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

“I just drank poison,” he said. “I am not a war criminal. I oppose this conviction.” <\/p>\n

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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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;<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Slavko Dogmanovic and Milan Babic, two other convicts were found hung in their cells more than ten years ago in separate incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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