War Crimes Suspect Dies After Shooting Himself
From Times Wire Reports
Veteran Serbian politician and war crimes indictee Vlajko Stojiljkovic, who shot himself in the head outside the Yugoslav parliament in Belgrade on Thursday, died, a doctor said.
Stojiljkovic shot himself hours after parliament passed a law under heavy U.S. financial pressure to send him and other war crimes suspects to a U.N. tribunal in The Hague.
In a note, he blamed Yugoslavia’s reformist leaders for his act, which provoked small but vocal protests of solidarity from nationalist sympathizers.
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