Dutch pathologists were conducting a post mortem examination today on Slobodan Milosevic’s remains to find out what killed the former Yugoslav leader, found dead in his jail cell a day earlier.

Slobodan Milosevic’s death just before the end of his trial deprived victims of justice – and made the capture of war crimes fugitives Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic even more urgent, the chief UN prosecutor said today.

Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president indicted for war crimes for orchestrating the Balkan wars of the 1990s, was found dead in his prison cell near The Hague, the UN tribunal said today.

MILAN Babic, the Serb leader of a rebel republic in Croatia and one of the key figures in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, committed suicide in prison, the UN war crimes tribunal said yesterday.

Milan Babic, the Serb leader of a rebel republic in Croatia and one of the key figures in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, has committed suicide in a Netherlands prison, the UN war crimes tribunal said today.

Milan Babic, the leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia and one of the key figures in the early Balkan wars of the 1990s, committed suicide in the Netherlands prison where he was serving a 13-year sentence, the UN war crimes tribunal said today.

The UN war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands has said Milan Babic, leader of wartime rebel Serbs in Croatia, has committed suicide in prison.

A UN war crimes tribunal yesterday sentenced Milan Babic, the war-time leader of Croatia’s rebellious Serbs, to 13 years’ imprisonment, saying his role in ethnic cleansing showed “ruthlessness and savagery.”

A UN war crimes tribunal today sentenced Milan Babic, the wartime leader of Croatia’s rebellious Serbs, to 13 years imprisonment, saying his role in ethnic cleansing showed “ruthlessness and savagery”.

A UN war crimes tribunal today convicted wartime Croatian Serb leader Milan Babic of one count of persecution after he pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors and sought forgiveness from the Croatian people for his crimes.

Wartime Croatian Serb leader Milan Babic pleaded guilty today to persecution in a plan to ethnically cleanse parts of Croatia of non-Serbs at the outset of the Balkan wars, and expressed “a deep sense of shame” for his crimes.

The UN war crimes tribunal has indicted former Croatian Serb leader Milan Babic for a campaign of ethnic cleansing early in the Balkan wars.