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BELGRADE (AP)--Branko Rakic, legal adviser for
Slobodan Milosevic during his war crimes trial, Friday called a U.N.
report into the former Serbian leader's death "scandalous".
Milosevic died last weekend at a detention center near the U.N.
war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, which was trying him on 66
counts of war crimes, including genocide.
Questions and
accusations have swirled this week about Milosevic's death. His widow and
her son say the former leader was poisoned.
"No evidence of
poisoning has been found," Tribunal President Judge Fausto Pocar said in
The Hague, reading the preliminary results of a Dutch toxicological
report. A number of prescribed medications were found in his body, "but
not in toxic concentrations," he said.
"Today, such a huge array
of falsehoods has been presented, indicating that someone's conscience
obviously isn't clear," Rakic said in Belgrade.
"Those who were in
a position of monopoly over Milosevic's health, denied him proper and
adequate treatment," Rakic said. "If Milosevic had been in a hospital, he
would have been alive today."
Flown home Wednesday, Milosevic is
to be buried Saturday at a family estate in his home town of Pozarevac,
about 50 kilometers southeast of Belgrade.
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