'I am not a war criminal' Bosnian War crimes suspect drinks poison at UN appeals hearing

The final hearing at a United Nations war crimes tribunal was dramatically halted today when a former Bosnian Croat military chief claimed to have taken poison.

Slobodan Praljak yelled "I am not a war criminal!" and appeared to drink from a small bottle seconds after judges reconfirmed his 20-year prison sentence for involvement in a campaign to drive Muslims out of a would-be Bosnian Croat ministate in Bosnia in the early 1990s.