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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 and took a swing from a flask or glass as a war-crimes judge at The Hague read out the verdict.
Praljak - who was jailed for 20 years in 2013 for committing crimes against Bosnian Muslims - then told the judge: “I just drank poison. I am not a war criminal. I oppose this conviction.”
As Praljak sat back down and slumped in his chair the presiding judge Carmel Agius dramatically suspended the hearing and called for a doctor.
He also asked for the glass Praljak had drunk from to be kept.