There is no evidence that Bosnian Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak had help in successfully carrying out his plan to commit suicide inside a UN courtroom, prosecutors say.
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Praljak died last November after swallowing cyanide from a bottle he sneaked into the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ahead of the verdict in an appeal against his prison sentence.
After The Hague tribunal upheld his original 20-year sentence and in front of live cameras, he yelled his protest at the verdict, consumed the poison and died shortly afterwards in hospital.
In their final report into Praljak's death, Dutch prosecutors said they could not determine how and when he obtained the cyanide.
"It cannot be excluded that Praljak had the poison for a long time in his possession," prosecutors said.
Cyanide can be stored in a dry form as a tablet or powder and has a long shelf life. Even a small amount is deadly.
Before his final act, Praljak had briefly been in two rooms without camera - a toilet and a waiting area.
A farewell letter was found in his cell. It states that he had made the decision to commit suicide long before he carried it out.
Praljak was handed the long prison sentence for an ethnic cleansing campaign against Muslim Bosniaks during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Australian Associated Press
