The General's Last Act | Slobodan Praljak
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The General's Last Act | Slobodan Praljak
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In 2017, a convicted war criminal stood in a courtroom in The Hague, heard his appeal denied, declared "I am not a war criminal" — and drank poison. Live. In front of the judges.
This week, Chelsea covers the case of Slobodan Praljak (yes, we're going to try to say it): a Bosnian Croat general convicted of war crimes during the brutal Croat-Bosniak War of the 1990s — a man who was, before all of that, a philosophy professor, a theatre director, and an engineer. The crimes he was found responsible for included the persecution and murder of Bosnian Muslims, and the destruction of the famous Old Bridge of Mostar — a 16th-century Ottoman landmark that had survived four centuries before he came along.
We also get into what happened in the former Yugoslavia, why it matters, and why the kind of tribunal that convicted him is both rarer and more important than most people realize.