Person: Praljak Slobodan Archives

Milivoj Petkovic, former president of the self-proclaimed Croat-led wartime statelet of Herzeg-Bosnia, wrote a letter from jail to the UN court saying he accepts the verdict sentencing him to 20 years in prison for wartime crimes against Bosniaks.

The UN court in The Hague rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Croat political leader Jadranko Prlic because he has not yet served two-thirds of his 25-year war crimes sentence.

A Dutch investigation into former Bosnian Croat military official Slobodan Praljak’s suicide at the UN war crimes tribunal in 2017 failed to establish how he obtained the poison that he took in the courtroom.

As Dutch prosecutors confirmed that Bosnian Croat military chief Slobodan Praljak took poison before he died, the Hague Tribunal launched an independent review to establish what went wrong at the UN court.

The Hague Tribunal will rule this week on an appeal from six wartime Bosnian Croat officials who were convicted of involvement in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at establishing a ‘Greater Croatia’.

An economics professor, a karate expert, a TV producer - six ex-officials of the Bosnian Croat wartime statelet Herzeg-Bosnia, now awaiting their final verdicts in The Hague, were brought together by the 1990s conflict.

The Hague Tribunal delivers its verdict on six Bosnian Croat ex-officials next week - but the trial has already revealed how Croatia funded the self-proclaimed Herzeg-Bosnia statelet’s forces while they fought the Bosnian Army.

The Hague Tribunal asked Bosnia and Croatia to help pay the 2.8 million euro defence debt of Bosnian Croat ex-military chief Slobodan Praljak, who is currently appealing against his war crimes conviction.

The Hague Tribunal rejected Croatia’s request to be involved in the appeal against the conviction of six Bosnian Croat wartime officials, thwarting Zagreb’s strategy to prove the innocence of 1990s President Franjo Tudjman.

Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic asked the Hague Tribunal to order a one-year break in his war crimes trial beause of the complexity of the allegations against him.

Person: Praljak Slobodan

Bosnian Croat Ex-Leader’s Jail Letter Expresses Regret for Crimes

UN Court Denies Bosnian Croat Wartime Leader Early Release

Slobodan Praljak Court Suicide: Source of Poison Not Found

Hague Tribunal Probes Slobodan Praljak’s Courtroom Death

Bosnian Croats Face Judgment on ‘Greater Croatia’ Charges

Bosnian Croat Officials Brought Together by War

Trial Shows Croatian Money Fuelled Bosnian Croats’ War

Bosnia, Croatia Asked to Pay Hague Defendant’s €2.8m Debt

Hague Rejects Croatia Bid to Clear Ex-Leader Tudjman

Karadzic Demands a Year to Prepare Closing Statement

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