Shortly after hearing his fate, former Bosnian Croat military chief Slobodan Praljak shouted "I am not a war criminal!" and lifted a vial of liquid to his lips. He tilted his head back and swallowed.

War criminal drinks poison during sentencing Link Copied! Slobodan Praljak committed suicide by drinking poison while a judge from the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia read that his 20 ...

A former Bosnian Croat general has died after apparently swallowing poison as a judge at the Hague upheld his 20-year sentence for war crimes. Footage from the International Criminal Tribunal for the ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands --The final hearing at a United Nations war crimes tribunal was dramatically halted Wednesday when a former Bosnian Croat military chief claimed to have taken poison. Hours ...

Slobodan Praljak, a former commander of Bosnian Croat forces in Bosnia's 1992-95 war, drank from a small bottle or glass and yelled "I am not a war criminal" moments after judges at the International ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Croatian state TV reported Wednesday that a convicted Croat war criminal has died after swallowing what he said was poison seconds after a United Nations judge confirmed ...

Slobodan Praljak committed suicide on live television in the hall of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague on November 29. After hearing that the appeals ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands --A deadly chemical was in the container from which a Croat war criminal drank shortly before dying, a Dutch prosecutor said Thursday, as an independent investigation into the ...

On Wednesday, at a trial that saw a Bosnian Croat general convicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, that very same general drew international headlines ...

As the judge at The Hague read out a verdict confirming Slobodan Praljak’s 20-year prison term for war crimes, the white-bearded former Bosnian Croat general rose to his feet. “Slobodan Praljak is not ...