[A-List] Final Sordid Chapter In Hague Travesty: Del Ponte Floats 'Suicide' Claim

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'Suicide' Claim


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4798702.stm


BBC News
March 12, 2006


Milosevic death mystery persists


-Mr Tomanovic later showed journalists in The Hague a
copy of Mr Milosevic's hand-written letter - addressed
to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.


Slobodan Milosevic feared he was being poisoned just a
day before he died in his cell at the UN war crimes
tribunal in The Hague, his lawyer has said.

Zdenko Tomanovic told reporters Mr Milosevic had
complained of "strong drugs in his system only used
for treating leprosy or tuberculosis".

An autopsy is under way on the indicted former
Yugoslav president, who died on Saturday. He had had
heart problems.

UN chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte has scorned claims
of suicide or poisoning.

"Until we have precise results it's rumours," Ms del
Ponte told journalists, referring to the autopsy in
The Hague, which is being observed by a Serbian
doctor.

Plea to Russia

Mr Tomanovic later showed journalists in The Hague a
copy of Mr Milosevic's hand-written letter - addressed
to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"He said: 'They would like to poison me. I'm seriously
concerned and worried'," Mr Tomanovic said, adding
that Mr Milosevic had been citing a medical report
from 12 January.

Mr Milosevic had requested permission to travel to
Moscow for medical treatment, but the tribunal had
refused, fearing that he might not return to The
Hague.

The tribunal also argued that Mr Milosevic was getting
competent medical supervision in The Hague.

He died aged 64, just months before the scheduled end
of his trial for war crimes in the Balkans in the
1990s.

Mr Milosevic's family blames his death on The Hague
tribunal.
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Reuters
March 12, 2006


Milosevic may have killed himself, Del Ponte tells
paper


ROME - Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav
president, may have committed suicide, the chief
prosecutor in his war crimes trial suggested in
comments published on Sunday.

Carla Del Ponte said the approach of sentencing could
have been a reason for Milosevic to take his life.

"According to our valuations, (the trial) would have
closed with a condemnation requesting he be shut away
for life. Perhaps he wanted to avoid all that," she
said in an interview with Italian newspaper la
Repubblica.

The U.N. war crimes tribunal has said there was no
indication Milosevic committed suicide. But it has
requested an autopsy hoping to clear up the cause of
his death only months before the verdict was due in
his four-year-old trial.

Del Ponte said medical checks of Milosevic, who was
found dead in his cell on Saturday, were thorough and
should have picked up if his heart condition and high
blood pressure had worsened.

"It is very strange, even if it is of course possible,
that he should have died so suddenly without these
medics having noticed a worsening of his condition,"
she said.





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