Source: News.Scotsman.Com
The suicide of Slobodan Milosevic while in custody at the Hague for war-crimes may actually not be an successful suicide, after all.
Traces of a drug used to treat leprosy and tuberculosis were found in a blood sample taken in recent months from former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, a news report has said.
The report came hours after Milosevic's legal adviser revealed a letter the late Serb leader wrote on Friday, one day before his body was discovered in prison, alleging that he was being poisoned.
In the report by state broadcaster NOS, a lawyer and commentator for the channel, Heikelina Verrijn Stuart, said she had confirmation that doctors first noticed the medicine in his blood in January.
Stuart said the drugs interfered with other medicine Milosevic was taking for high blood pressure and vascular disease.
This comes after Milosevic's number 2 man, Vlajko Stojiljkovic, committed suicide under the same protective custody arrangement...how coincidental?
A few quick thoughts on this story:
The man's health could have been suffering, and the stress just did him in.
He also could have been given drugs that would interfere with his blood pressure medicines by accident--it happens.
A more nefarious thought is someone with a enormous amount of power did not want this man to speak out about other crimes.
I would have to say I'm leaning towards number 2 or 3. This was either a terrible medical mistake or someone wanted this man silenced. Either way, his secrets died with him, and I think they succeeded.
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