Posted on 03/13/2006 4:16:48 PM PST by Proctor
Russia questions Milosevic autopsy findings, requests to send own doctors
www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-14 03:02:08
MOSCOW, March 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Russia did not fully trust former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's preliminary autopsy findings and requested to send his own doctors to examine the body.
Lavrov said Russia had been offended by the UN war crimes tribunal's refusal to let Milosevic receive treatment for his heart condition in Russia in December.
Russia "was ready to provide medical assistance to Milosevic and give 100-percent guarantees of his timely return to The Hague. These guarantees were considered insufficient. In fact, Russia was distrusted," the minister stressed.
"In this situation, when they did not believe us, we also have the right not to believe and not to trust those who are conducting the tests" to determine the causes of Milosevic's death, Lavrov told reporters at a briefing.
In his words, a group of Russian medics is preparing for an urgent trip to The Hague, to take part in a forensic medical examination.
"We have asked the tribunal to let our doctors participate in the autopsy or at the very least to be informed of its results," Lavrov said, adding that "a group of our doctors is preparing to depart urgently for The Hague."
U.N. war crimes tribunal spokeswoman Alexandra Milenov said on Sunday that an autopsy revealed Milosevic had died of a heart attack.
But a spokeswoman for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said it was too early to rule out poisoning as suspected by Milosevic himself days before his death.
The 64-year-old former president was found dead on Saturday morning in his cell at The Hague-based UN court.
A Dutch toxicologist confirmed on Monday that he had found traces of an unprescribed drug in a blood sample taken from Milosevic earlier this year.
Donald Uges said he found traces of rifampicin, a drug that could have reduced the effectiveness of his other medication.
On Sunday, the Russian Foreign Ministry received a letter from Slobodan Milosevic, dated March 8. "The letter expresses concern over certain methods of treatment which were affecting Milosevic's health," Lavrov noted.
Milosevic had suffered from chronic heart problems and high blood pressure. His medical condition repeatedly delayed the trial that began in five years ago. Late last month, the tribunal rejected Milosevic's request for provisional release to go to Russia for medical treatment.
The former Yugoslav president was charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during conflicts in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo in the 1990s. Milosevic denied the charges and was defending himself. Enditem
<< Well I'm glad you're showing your hatred of those NATO countries. >>
Sad to say, that remark is as uncalled for and as cowardly and fundamentally dishonest as were the loathesome and fearsome Blair-Clinton-NATO Neo-Axis's Islamanazi-supporting attacks on Christian Serbia.
Serbs keep Albanians from leaving Kosovo and tell them to back to their villages - they say Serbs using Albanians as human shields.
<< Some of Slobo's dangerous enemies >>
Not one of whom had moved a millimeter from his home until the Blair-Clinton-NATO Neo-Axis began its murderous attack on Serbia! And drove them all out.
Hey, Joan... there was a little girl in Belgrade killed by NATO bombs as she sat in her families' bathroom. She was 3 years old and it upset my wife something awful. Our first great-grandniece was the same age when she passed away from a brain tumor....
BTTT
"The clenched fist of Otpor ("Resistance"), a network of some 70,000 militant youth whom Soros paid to oust Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic....
Sleep tight and DO let your bedbugs BITE!!
GSlob you are a liar.
OH, yes.. clinton was such a humanitarian that the planes even came back on a second run and bombed the rescuers and killed the Priest as he ran to render aid to ALL the CIVILIAN victims.
OH, yes, BOMBED, a de-capitated man of the cloth AND Nothing but CIVILIAN victims( OLD AND YOUNG) really shows a HUMANITARIAN STREAK IN CLINTON!!
GET REAL, THERE CLINTON SUPPORTER!
SLOBO WAS NOT THE ONLY VILLIAN IN THE YUGOSLAVIAN CIVIL WAR AND YOU KNOW IT!!
ever heard of the english king Henry II?
Those poor,poor people... clinton was as much a war criminal as ANY participant in that civil war.
Apparently they do not teach English History in ALBANIA.
I mean, to hang in the Balkans threads you need some history background and he does not know the reference 'Lion in Winter'?
Cripple dude, that is embarrassing.
I had not seen that before.
Where do all those soros /kla trolLs come from??
Soros is NOT getting very good OR educated POSTINGS ON FR, for his money...I mean..."LION IN WINTER" was not only a historic character in England... BUT... It was even made into a MOVIE for goodness sake.
Oh, never mind. There were no car chases or SLEEZY wimmen and bar scenes...WHY WOULD ol CRIPPLE-C DUDE WANT TO SEE A MOVIE WITHOUT HIS CHIEF INTERESTS IN LIFE!! FAST CARS, BARS AND LOOSE WIMMIN!!
lollol
« It would be better if Milosevic died in the dock, because if the trial ran its course he might be sentenced for only relatively minor charges » James Gow, "an expert on war crimes" and supporter of The Hague Tribunal, in an interview with Channel 4, 2004.
http://www.icdsm.org/more/Laughland1007.htm
« It would be better if Milosevic died in the dock, because if the trial ran its course he might be sentenced for only relatively minor charges » James Gow, "an expert on war crimes" and supporter of The Hague Tribunal, in an interview with Channel 4, 2004.
http://www.icdsm.org/more/Laughland1007.htm
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