Bosnian Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak used cyanide to kill himself in court after losing his appeal, it has been revealed. Dutch prosecutors aid it was the "highest priority" to carry out a post ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A United Nations war crimes tribunal ordered an independent review of its "internal operations" Friday following the dramatic death of a former Croatian general who swallowed ...

A convicted war criminal succeeded in attracting the eyes of the world with a courtroom suicide, though investigators must now piece together how the defendant confined at the “Hague Hilton” prison ...

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 ...

Slobodan Praljak, a former Bosnian Croat general, drank poison from a bottle during a war-crimes tribunal on Wednesday. He died a few hours later in a Dutch hospital. Praljak's charges centered on the ...

A vial drained by Bosnian Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak in front of the Hague tribunal contained a lethal chemical, Dutch prosecutors have confirmed. The authorities are investigating how he ...

The convicted Bosnian Croat war criminal who died Wednesday after drinking a vial of poison as a judge upheld his 20-year sentence died of heart failure, according to the Dutch Prosecution Service.

Slobodan Praljak died Wednesday, just hours after the convicted war criminal interrupted a courtroom hearing to declare his innocence — and then drank a small container of what he said was poison, ...

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 ...

The war criminal former commander of Bosnian Croat forces died today after gulping back poison when he was told his appeal against his sentence had failed. Slobodan Praljak, 72, tilted back his head ...

A preliminary autopsy indicates that Bosnian Croat war crimes convict Slobodan Praljak died of cyanide poisoning, Dutch prosecutors have revealed. It is still unclear how Praljak smuggled the poison ...

Bosnian Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak used cyanide to kill himself in court, Dutch prosecutors have said. Prosecutors are probing how he managed to get hold of a banned substance in the ...