Posted on 03/06/2006 5:20:53 AM PST by syriacus
Milan Babic, the leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia and one-time president of the Croatian Serbs in the 1990s, has committed suicide in his cell at a U.N. detention facility where he was serving a 13-year term for war crimes, officials said.
Babic was found dead in his cell at the prison in Scheveningen, a suburb of The Hague, at about 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, according to a statement from the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
"The Dutch authorities were called immediately. After conducting an investigation, they confirmed that the cause of death was suicide," the statement said.
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This thug was just jealous of the prisoners at Guantanamo. He couldn't take a UN cell any longer. It was just too much.
One of the problems with abolishing the death penalty throughout Europe is that so many prisoners are forced to use far less efficient and more painful techniques.
"UN-icide"?
My guess is... he could have fingered others, if he had been allowed to live.
Margaret Hassan, the aid worker who "disappeared" in Iraq, probably had "dirt" on the UN, too (the oil-for-food scandal). I don't think she was involved in the oil-for-food scandal, but I'd bet she had some suspicions about the program.
Dublin-born charity worker Margaret Hassan moved to Iraq 30 years ago, and began working for Care International soon after it began operations there in 1991. When she was kidnapped, she had been head of the charity's operations in the country for some 12 years. [snip]Care International is the world's largest humanitarian relief agency, with a presence in 72 countries. It has focused efforts in Iraq since the war on providing emergency relief and medical aid, and restoring access to clean water.
Suicide is a popular way out in the Netherlands. If the UN takes the hint, this could be the start of a big trend...in which prisoners who have committed crimes against humanity don't get executed, but "kill themselves."
This guy was just about to testify against Milosevic, what does that tell you? Two bad for him he didn't wait for 2 weeks
I didn't know that. Something is foul in The Hague/The UN.
How do we know? Dutch authorities say so? Or maybe he changed his mind?
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