UN War Crimes Tribunal Denies Request for
Milosevic Autopsy in Moscow
Xinhua - 2006-03-12 03:19:02
The U.N. war crimes tribunal said on Saturday it had denied a request by
Slobodan Milosevic's lawyer to have the autopsy of the former Yugoslavia
president conducted in Moscow instead of The Hague.
A tribunal official also declined to comment on a claim by Milosevic's lawyer
that he had been poisoned while in jail.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The
Hague on Saturday announced that Milosevic had been found dead on his bed in his
cell at the UN detention unit in Scheveningen.
Milosevic, 64, has suffered from high blood pressure and heart problems.
On Feb. 24, the tribunal refused Milosevic's request to be temporarily released
to Moscow in order to undergo medical treatment.
In a trial that started on Feb. 12, 2002, Milosevic faced 66 charges of war
crimes, including genocide for his role in the Balkan wars following the breakup
of the Yugoslav federation in the 1990s.
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