EX-rebel Serbs leader Babic kills himself in prison

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.

EX-rebel Serbs leader Babic kills himself in prison

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.

Babic was found dead yesterday evening in his cell at the UN detention centre in Scheveningen, a suburb of The Hague, said a tribunal statement.

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