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FILE - In this ICTY file photo dated Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, Slobodan Praljak drinks from a bottle after proclaiming his innocence shortly after hearing an appeals judge confirmed his 20-year sentence for crimes during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The Hague Public Prosecution Service says in a written statement issued Friday Nov. 2, 2018, they have failed to unravel the mystery of how Croatian ex-general Praljak managed to smuggle a bottle of poison into a United Nations courtroom to take his own life. (The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) via AP)

Probe fails to unravel mystery of Croat’s courtroom suicide

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Bosnian Croat man Pero Pervisic , 49, friend of late Gen. Praljak, pays his respect in front of house where Gen. Slobodan Praljak was born, on the house are placed posters reading &quot; Our Hero&quot;, in southern Bosnian town of Capljina 170 kms south of Sarajevo, on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. Gen. Praljak took his own life during sentence reading before The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. Praljak was standing trial for war crimes committed in the name of Bosnian Croats, during 1992-95 war.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)

The Latest: Autopsy shows war criminal had cyanide in system

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In this photo provided by the ICTY on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, Slobodan Praljak brings a bottle to his lips, during a Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Praljak yelled, &quot;I am not a war criminal!&quot; 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. (ICTY via AP)

The Latest: Praljak lawyer doesn’t know how he got poison

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In this photo provided by the ICTY on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, Slobodan Praljak brings a bottle to his lips, during a Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Praljak yelled, &quot;I am not a war criminal!&quot; 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. (ICTY via AP)

The Latest: UN prosecutors urge Croatia to accept findings

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In this photo provided by the ICTY on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, Slobodan Praljak brings a bottle to his lips, during a Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Praljak yelled, &quot;I am not a war criminal!&quot; 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. (ICTY via AP)

Slobodan Praljak, war criminal from Croatia, drinks poison in court and dies

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Bosnian people from west part of Mostar watch the live TV broadcast from the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague as Slobodan Praljak brings a bottle to his lips, in southern Bosnian town of Mostar 140 kms south of Sarajevo, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. Praljak yelled, &quot;I am not a war criminal!&quot; 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. Croatia's state TV says Praljak who claimed to have taken poison just after his 20-year sentence was upheld by appeals judges at a U.N. war crimes tribunal, has died. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Croat general performs ultimate act at war crimes trial

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and DARKO BANDIC - Associated Press