A convicted war criminal from Croatia swallowed what he said was poison and died Wednesday after a United Nations court in the Netherlands upheld his 20-year sentence for committing crimes against humanity during the Bosnian war of the 1990s. In a stunning end to the final case at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, former Croatian general Slobodan Praljak yelled, "I am not a war criminal!" All had their guilty verdicts sustained by the UN's war crimes court Wednesday. 'Just like an airport'A lawyer who has frequently defended suspects at the war crimes court told The Associated Press it would be easy to bring poison into the court. Croatian Prime Minister Plenkovic said that his country's leadership during the Bosnian war could "in no way be connected with the facts and interpretations" in the appeals judgment.

Source: CBC News November 29, 2017 12:03 UTC