- Oct 9, 1999
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Looks like it happened saturday.
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://news.google.com/news?q=slobodan+milosevic+dead&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr">THE HAGUE, Netherlands ? A heart attack killed Slobodan Milosevic in his jail cell, according to preliminary findings from Dutch pathologists who conducted a nearly eight-hour autopsy on the former Yugoslav leader Sunday, an official at the U.N. war crimes tribunal said.
The official, who agreed to discuss the autopsy only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, commented after a day of speculation on the cause of death that swirled from ill health to suicide to poison.
A tribunal spokeswoman said the court had no immediate comment on the official's report.
Found dead in his cell Saturday morning, the 64-year-old Milosevic had suffered from heart ailments and high blood pressure, and his bad health caused numerous breaks in his four-year, $200 million trial before the tribunal.
Some wondered if suicide might have been an out for the man accused of causing wars that killed 250,000 people during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. And a legal adviser said the 64-year-old Milosevic feared he was being poisoned.
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<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://news.google.com/news?q=slobodan+milosevic+dead&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr">THE HAGUE, Netherlands ? A heart attack killed Slobodan Milosevic in his jail cell, according to preliminary findings from Dutch pathologists who conducted a nearly eight-hour autopsy on the former Yugoslav leader Sunday, an official at the U.N. war crimes tribunal said.
The official, who agreed to discuss the autopsy only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, commented after a day of speculation on the cause of death that swirled from ill health to suicide to poison.
A tribunal spokeswoman said the court had no immediate comment on the official's report.
Found dead in his cell Saturday morning, the 64-year-old Milosevic had suffered from heart ailments and high blood pressure, and his bad health caused numerous breaks in his four-year, $200 million trial before the tribunal.
Some wondered if suicide might have been an out for the man accused of causing wars that killed 250,000 people during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. And a legal adviser said the 64-year-old Milosevic feared he was being poisoned.
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