Posted on 03/13/2006 2:54:20 AM PST by HAL9000
Che Hague - Slobodan Milosevic took délibérement a drug not prescribed "cancelling" the effect of its treatment against hypertension, indicated to Monday to AFP the Dutch toxicologist Ronald Uges after an analysis of the blood of the former Yugoslav president."It took (a drug containing) rifampicine, a drug which cancels the effect" of the treatments against hypertension, explained Mr. Uges who carried out an analysis of the blood of the former Yugoslav president two weeks ago.
"It took this drug itself and it it wanted to obtain an one-way ticket towards Moscow", he added.
Slobodan Milosevic had required in December of the international penal Court (TPI) for ex-Yugoslavia to be transferred in Moscow to be neat there but this request had been rejected, the judges estimating that it profited from a sufficient medical follow-up in the Hague and that it was likely not to be represented with its lawsuit if it left for Russia.
Slobodan Milosevic was found died Saturday of a myocardial infarction in its cell of the prison of the TPI in the Hague, according to the first conclusions of the report of autopsy.
Sunday, one of its legal advisers, Me Zdenko Tomanovic, had read a letter in which the former Head of State affirmed to fear to be poisoned.
Mr. Milosevic wrote with the embassy of Russia to the Hague that blood tests carried out on January 12 and who had been communicated to him a few days ago by the clerk's office of the TPI made state of the presence with high amount of a drug used in the treatment of leprosy or tuberculosis in its blood.
Mr. Uges indicated that the rifampicine, used according to him délibérement by Mr. Milosevic, was a substance used in the fight against tuberculosis.
Toxicologist at the university of Groningen, Mr. Uges carried out a check analysis of the blood of the former president, at the request of the Dutch doctors who treated it, in order to determine why its blood pressure remained also strong in spite of the prescribed treatments.
Several time at the time of the lawsuit, the charge had quoted medical reports/ratios indicating that the former president did not follow the treatment which was prescribed to him to fight against its cardiovascular problems and of the traces of not prescribed drugs had been found already in its blood.
Personally I have a hard time believing that Milosevic had control over his medication at all. I'm sure he would have been given the exact amount of tablets he was supposed to take each time, no more and no less, and was most likely observed by the guard delivering this medication to ensure that he swallowed it. It's what we (nurses) do in aged care especially when there is any possibility that the medication could be "abused". I imagine it would have been similar with Milosevic if not even more secure. I have a difficult time imagining he had free access to his own medication.
Another thought that crossed my mind is wouldn't there have been a camera observing him in his cell at all times considering he was such an important indictee? Why did it take so long to find him dead?
I don't think it could have been intentional suicide. It looks as if he was enjoying making a mockery of the trial and I think we would have hung on just for that. He certainly wasn't afraid of an impending death sentence or any such thing.
As to an accidental one, it doesn't seem likely that he could have gotten the medication against the wishes of the prison authorities.
I predict this will be fodder for conspiracy theorists for years to come.
It was an historical play on words, since Hermann Göring wrote the book--so to speak--on robbing the hangman by committing suicide.
He had free access to the booze that was reportedly regularly smuggled into his cell
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