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Heart failure blamed but former Serb leader said doctors were killing him
The Guardian ^ | 13 March 2006 | Ian Traynor

Posted on 03/13/2006 5:00:15 PM PST by ChessExpert

The death of Slobodan Milosevic was shrouded in mystery and deepening controversy last night as Dutch pathologists examined his corpse and it emerged that he had claimed he was being slowly killed by doctors. Milosevic's body was removed from the detention centre at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague to the Netherlands forensic institute for a postmortem examination and toxicological testing.

Last night a preliminary postmortem report said that he had died of heart failure. His remains were to be released to his family today.

Yesterday the 64-year-old former Serbian and Yugoslav president's lawyer revealed a six-page letter - dated last Friday, 24 hours before his death - that Milosevic wrote to the Russian government alleging he was being deliberately administered the wrong drugs for his illnesses.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balkans; clintonbodycount; clintonlegacy; milosevic; wrongplace; wrongside; wrongtime; wrongwar
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To: Proctor

Yeah, and prisoners have never been able to smuggle things in before.


21 posted on 03/14/2006 11:43:53 AM PST by elc
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To: Lion in Winter

That's right ~ almost forgot the Balkan Wars line in the Clinton Body Count. Big hits, too. You've Milosovic, and before him Ron Brown, and probably some others we haven't noticed.


22 posted on 03/19/2006 2:32:16 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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