Posted on 11/29/2017 4:24:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
The wartime commander of Bosnian Croat forces, Slobodan Praljak, has died after he drank a liquid he said was poison seconds after UN judges turned down his appeal against a 20-year sentence for war crimes against Bosnian Muslims, a court spokesman confirms.
Praljak, 72, tilted back his head and took a swig from a bottle shortly after appeals judges confirmed his sentence for involvement in a campaign to drive Muslims out of a would-be Bosnian Croat ministate in Bosnia in the early 1990s.
"I just drank poison," he said.
"I am not a war criminal. I oppose this conviction."
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
For everyone that’s looking for European men with balls. Here ya go. This is what we do to them.
That’s all on video.
Yup...some time ago I did some reading about his case,including a suggestion that some time after his death evidence emerged that he may have,in fact,been innocent...wrongly accused.
remember Toon talking about graves with 10,000 bodies?....never ever found...
True.
If you google Croatian news you will find an English-language site. Read it. In Croatia which by the way is a Christian democratic nation this guy is a national hero. The prime minister is flying back from Iceland and the guys family is being offered public condolences. They all say the verdict was unjust. Kangaroo Euro court that hates Christians.
Did they put poison in quotes in the headline to suggest that it wasn’t poison that he took?
I totally reject the invention of speech being prosecuted as a hate crime. No matter where, not matter who.
Only physical actions can be deemed crimes, and there only if there is physical contact and/or a physical weapon used, and actual damage resulting.
He was sentenced to 20 years, but some lawyers are quoted as saying he could have been free in 2019 or 2020 because of time already served (apparently people can be eligible for release after serving two-thirds of the sentence).
this is why bible tells us to trust God with our own heart and lean not on our own understanding. in All our ways acknowledge Him and HE will make straight our path. Joseph spent years in prison wrongly accused and yet God used it for good and prospered Joseph..
“with an infinitely more distinguished public record than yours, Admiral Boorda committed suicide when he may have committed a minor mistake”
-—Congressman Tom Lantos
Remembered when Rush emphasized the “SUICIDE” word with a fake eastern Euro accent.
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