Posted on 11/29/2017 6:57:05 AM PST by C19fan
A Bosnian-Croat war chief has died after downing poison during his war crimes trial at The Hague, Croatian state TV reports. Slobodan Praljak yelled, 'I am not a war criminal!' and drank a dark liquid from a small bottle seconds after losing his appeal against a 20-year prison sentence at the International Criminal Tribunal, in the Netherlands. 'I just drank poison,' he added. 'I am not a war criminal. I oppose this conviction.' Praljak, 72, is one of six Croatian politicians sentenced to jail for their involvement in a campaign to drive Muslims out of a would-be Bosnian Croat mini-state in Bosnia in the early 1990s.
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We were on the wrong side in that war
Most freepers are too uninformed over the Balkans
Ask any non prejudiced military guy who was there
Muslims in the Balkans murdered plenty of civilians, but the PC narrative that we're fed portrays them as helpless victims in that conflict. They weren't - they were at least as often perpetrators as they were victims of war crimes, both historically and recently.
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