Former commander Slobodan Praljak drank from bottle moments after judges upheld 20-year sentence in The Hague
A former Bosnian Croat general has died after drinking a phial of poison while standing in the dock at a UN tribunal in The Hague,where his war crimes sentence of 20 years was upheld.
Seconds after the judges had delivered their decision at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday, Slobodan Praljak shouted out angrily: “Praljak is not a criminal. I reject your verdict.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk