Foul Play in Milosevic Death Ruled Out

World | April 5, 2006, Wednesday // 00:00

Late Slobodan Milosevic died of natural causes, according to Dutch prosecutors who ruled out any foul play. The former Serbian president was found dead in his cell at The Hague on March 11 while being tried for war crimes. Earlier autopsy results had shown that Milosevic had died of a heart attack. Some of his supporters in his native Serbia claimed he had been poisoned while in prison. Slobodan Milosevic was charged with a series of offences relating to the Balkan and Kosovo wars of the 1990s, which saw tens of thousands of people killed. The most serious charge alleged that he tried to carry out genocide against Bosnian Muslims between 1992 and 1995. Milosevic used to deny all of the accusations.

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