Slobodan Praljak was a beloved Croation film and theater director who abandoned his career to volunteer for the army during Croatia's battle for independence in the Bosnian War. He rose through the ranks over the war, eventually becoming a respected general.
After the war, the Hague accused him of being a war criminal. Confident he'd done nothing wrong or in violation of military ethics, he voluntarily surrendered himself... then the Hague left him imprisoned for the next 15 years while they tried to come up with something to charge him with. In the end, he was convicted of blowing up a bridge which, according to the Hague, caused 'unnecessary property and cultural damage to the Muslim population' and sentenced him to 20 years, with 15 served and time off for good conduct during his unwarranted incarceration.
Realistically, Praljak would have only had to serve another 2-3 years, but not wanting to give the Hague the satisfaction of branding him a war criminal after wasting fifteen years of his life in prison while they concocted some trumped up, bullshit charges against him, he stood up during the sentencing and said, simply, >"I am not a war criminal, I reject you and your verdict" and then drank a vial of poison he'd smuggled into the court. He died less than an hour later.
Pretty based, makes me sick that our country sided with the muslims
Jonathan Moore
This man was a good man. He literally did nothing wrong. All is fair in love and war, there is no such thing as 'war crimes', war is a legal act that a country does upon another.. There is no actual crime involved with it in my opinion.
Bentley Lewis
Literally a War Criminal who ordered the execution of entire families in order to create a greater Croatian state. He got what he deserved.
Nathan Long
t. man whos country never endured a warcrime
Matthew Hernandez
>war criminals are based
Nolan Garcia
the man was probably not a war criminal, but let's just not go all the way to the other side and claim war crimes are not a thing
Xavier Barnes
t. turk
Josiah James
This kind of reply is typical for the american subhuman who is incapable of feeling any empathy for the common man (or child in this case).
Went out in style and Hague court is fucking joke.
Samuel Lopez
why the fuck there are rules in war anyway?
i want to see blood,victims of nerve gas attacks and mauled bodies
James Adams
This guy is badass!!
Thomas Ward
how can you charge someone who was fighting for their country, someone who had to comply to orders just to protect their country? you literally can't, it's dishonorable. it's not right. at the end of the day, the winner decides who is bad, and you gotta ask yourself, is the winner right in their judgement for punishing the loser? more often, they are not, because it is in their own interests to punish them, not because they were actually criminals.
the winner is often times the same 'wicked person' that you saw in the loser who was getting charged for 'war crimes'.
Tyler Bailey
You're right, why don't you get into a war zone and do a demonstration for us?
Kevin Smith
Do you have any knowledge about the Bosnian wars you fucking idiot?
Jayden James
>war criminal
Sebastian Brooks
t. assblasted t*rk
Juan Hall
Just how many woman have you raped while deployed, Marine?
Jordan Cruz
One slavshit less in this world
Juan Hughes
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Jaxson Butler
He took the easy way out.
Sebastian Cooper
War crimes definitely do exist. However, the destruction of a bridge used to supply ammunition, weapons and to transport troops from one side to the other is a -legitimate- war target and is not a war crime, and Praljak was accused of war crimes specifically for destroying the bridge in Mostar used for these purposes by the ARBiH mujahideens. NATO blew up way less threatening bridges in Serbia during their bombings and they never had to face any court or justice. Had he not committed such a public suicide in front of the many cameras, nobody in the world would have known or heard about him.
Jace Sanchez
on wikipedia it says he directed some television series, some documentaries, and a film where can i watch them?
