Posted on 03/11/2006 12:30:24 PM PST by Proctor
Milosevic feared he was being poisoned: lawyer
March, 11 2005
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic feared he was being poisoned in his detention cell in The Hague, his lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic said on Saturday hours after the tribunal announced Milosevic's death.
"Today, I have filed an official request to the tribunal to have the autopsy carried out in Moscow, having in mind his claims yesterday that he was being poisoned in the jail," Tomanovic told reporters in The Hague.
Acting on a request from Milosevic, Tomanovic said he had made a request for protection for his client to the Russian embassy in The Netherlands and to the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow.
"I demanded protection for Slobodan Milosevic over his claims that he was being poisoned. I still haven't received any reply and that's all I have to say at this time," the lawyer said.
Milosevic conducted his own defense at the war crimes trial. Tomanovic acted as his legal representative in other matters as well as helping him prepare his defense.
The Serbs did not carry out genocide. What they were doing was defending themselves against PROVEN genocidal regimes - Croats and Muslims.
Like Napoleon?
Suicide seems to be running in his family: First an uncle,his father Svetozar and then his mother Stanislava.
No suicide is being claimed here.
There would be no verdict.
And I fully expect the exact same thing to happen to Saddam Hussein as well. Don't expect that charade to be ending any time soon.
It took me a few seconds to realize what you mean by that Napoleon remark. Then it hit me. There was speculation of late that the British poisoned Napoleon as their prisoner with arsenic.
?Acting on a request from Milosevic, Tomanovic said he had made a request for protection for his client to the Russian embassy in The Netherlands and to the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow."
So what did he expect the Russians to do? Drive a tank into the prison and tak Milosevic into protective custody?
This sounds as if it could have ended very nastily had the Russians made a move of some kind.
Do you know anything about the UCK?
That's what Napoleon claimed. Of course, I could have mentioned Mozart's rather paranoid comments about Salieri.
Probably not.
Then why don't we send Clinton to the Hague? His resume qualifies him as a war criminal as Cicero has well pointed out.
LOL!
You've hit the nail on the head.
Wonder what she'll do, when the Mexicans start doing in Texas what the Albanian did in Kosovo?
"Able was I ere I saw Elba."
N.B.?
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
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