500lbguerilla
03-12-2006, 01:49 PM
Poison claim over Milosevic death
Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic claimed the day before he was found dead that he was being poisoned.
Milosevic, 64, who was on trial for war crimes, was found dead in his prison cell at the UN detention centre near The Hague.
A UN spokesman said he had died of natural causes.
Milosevic's lawyer, Zdenko Tomanovic, said: "I informed the Russian embassy on behalf of Mr Milosevic about his claims that his health was being wilfully destroyed, and that this should be (investigated) by the Russians."
Tomanovic told reporters at The Hague that he had now filed an official request to the tribunal for the autopsy to be carried out in Moscow.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=371252006
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UN war crimes tribunal denies request for Milosevic autopsy in Moscow
www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-12 05:50:15
BRUSSELS, March 11 (Xinhuanet) -- The U.N. war crimes tribunal saidon Saturday it had denied a request by Slobodan Milosevic's lawyerto have the autopsy of the former Yugoslavia president conducted in Moscow instead of The Hague.
A tribunal official also declined to comment on a claim by Milosevic's lawyer that he had been poisoned while in jail.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague on Saturday announced that Milosevic had been found dead on his bed in his cell at the UN detention unit in Scheveningen.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/12/content_4292109.htm
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Who would want this and why (assuming it happened)? Why would anyone want to fake that he was poisoned too?
All I can think is reletives of victims or fear that he wouldn't be convicted...
Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic claimed the day before he was found dead that he was being poisoned.
Milosevic, 64, who was on trial for war crimes, was found dead in his prison cell at the UN detention centre near The Hague.
A UN spokesman said he had died of natural causes.
Milosevic's lawyer, Zdenko Tomanovic, said: "I informed the Russian embassy on behalf of Mr Milosevic about his claims that his health was being wilfully destroyed, and that this should be (investigated) by the Russians."
Tomanovic told reporters at The Hague that he had now filed an official request to the tribunal for the autopsy to be carried out in Moscow.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=371252006
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UN war crimes tribunal denies request for Milosevic autopsy in Moscow
www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-12 05:50:15
BRUSSELS, March 11 (Xinhuanet) -- The U.N. war crimes tribunal saidon Saturday it had denied a request by Slobodan Milosevic's lawyerto have the autopsy of the former Yugoslavia president conducted in Moscow instead of The Hague.
A tribunal official also declined to comment on a claim by Milosevic's lawyer that he had been poisoned while in jail.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague on Saturday announced that Milosevic had been found dead on his bed in his cell at the UN detention unit in Scheveningen.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/12/content_4292109.htm
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Who would want this and why (assuming it happened)? Why would anyone want to fake that he was poisoned too?
All I can think is reletives of victims or fear that he wouldn't be convicted...