Mr. Praljak, a former general, 72, later died in a Dutch hospital, according to Nenad Golcevski, a tribunal spokesman. Many questions, however, remained unanswered, including the most significant one: How did Mr. Praljak obtain poison and smuggle it into the tightly secured courthouse? Judges upheld the sentences against all of the six defendants, but the suicide of Mr. Praljak — the most senior member of the group — quickly overshadowed those decisions. Before the Bosnian and Croatian wars, Mr. Praljak had been a theater and film director and a writer. The siege was the most widely publicized Croatian military action during the war and included the destruction of the town’s 16th century stone bridge.

Source: New York Times November 29, 2017 12:22 UTC