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. An official statement from the ICTY said: “Mr Slobodan Praljak, one of six defence appellants in the Prlić et al case, passed away today in HMC hospital in The Hague. Immediately thereafter, Mr Praljak drank a liquid while in court, and quickly fell ill.“Mr Praljak was immediately assisted by the ICTY medical staff. One lawyer who has defended suspects at the ICTY said it would be easy to bring poison into the court. The 1992-95 war in Bosnia, in which 100,000 people died and 2.2 million were displaced, mainly pitted Bosnian Muslims against Bosnian Serbs, but also saw brutal fighting between Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats after an initial alliance fell apart.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2017 11:00 UTC