Milosevic might have committed suicide: Del Ponte

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The chief UN war crimes prosecutor said on Sunday it was possible Slobodan Milosevic had committed suicide and his death made it all the more urgent to catch others blamed for the horrors of the Balkan wars.

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Dutch scientists began an autopsy on Sunday, with senior pathologists from Serbia observing. A tribunal spokeswoman said it was unlikely results would be ready on Sunday.

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Leo Bokeria, head of the Bakulev Cardio-Vascular Surgery Center in Moscow, told Russian television that doctors treating Milosevic in The Hague had suspected he was secretly spitting out the medicines for high blood pressure they gave him.

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Describing his death as a "total defeat", Del Ponte told Italian daily La Repubblica she was furious and believed the approach of a verdict could have prompted him to take his life.

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suicide . . . that is, if he could have reached around to shoot himself in the back of the head.

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By Nicola Leske
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The chief UN war crimes prosecutor said on Sunday it was possible Slobodan Milosevic had committed suicide and his death made it all the more urgent to catch others blamed for the horrors of the Balkan wars.

Carla del Ponte said the former Yugoslav president might have wanted to thwart the impending verdict in his marathon war crimes trial, which she said she expected to be one of guilty, followed by a life sentence.

She noted it was the second death in a week at the Hague tribunal's detention center. Former Croatian Serb leader Milan Babic took his own life last Sunday.

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I can see this turning into a three-ring circus.