Was it possible to prevent Praljak's suicide in The Hague?

An independent investigation has confirmed that the International Tribunal for Crime in the Former Yugoslavia has failed to prevent war crimes convict Slobodan Praljak from committing suicide during the trial hearing broadcast on television.

The report was released by Tribunal on December 31st, in which it says that “without any specific data, there is no measure that could have guaranteed the identification of poison to that degree”.

My “Review has not shown any space or shortcomings of the Tribunal legal framework in terms of prisoners or principles of this body, so there was no proposal for changing regulations or laws”, said report author Hasan Jarloe.

Pralyak, 72 years old He's been drinking the cyanide poison. during a television broadcast of the court Senate until his 20-year sentence for war crimes was pronounced.

Later in the day he died as a cause of poison.

While Dutch prosecutors are still investigating the incident, the published writing did not indicate details how and when Pralyak had provided the poison, and there was no evidence that he had a dangerous substance.

And even if there was information about poison, nature and the amount of substance it was, so that it could easily have remained indisputable even if a detailed search of persons, cells, or other” was done, it was said in the report.

The former Bosnian forces commander during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia has been sentenced in 2013 for crimes of murder, persecutionum and deportation.

He was one of the six who were participating in the November 29th trial to hear the court ruling after appealing the earlier decision.