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Russia doctor agrees Dutch autopsy
by Reuters
Updated: 2006-03-15 16:46
THE HAGUE - A Russian doctor who examined the autopsy of Slobodan Milosevic
agreed with the conclusion that the former president had died of a heart attack
but said treatment in Moscow could have saved him.
"We came to the
(same) conclusion that was made by the local team ... We are satisfied with what
we saw," Leo Bokeria, a director at Moscow's Bakulev Heart Surgery Center where
Milosevic had wanted to go for treatment, told Reuters.
Bokeria was part
of a team of Russian doctors that Russia sent to examine the results of the
Dutch autopsy after Moscow said it did not trust the investigation into
Milosevic's death.
Bokeria said he saw "nothing showing signs of
suicide", but there remained questions over whether Milosevic received adequate
care while standing trial at the U.N. tribunal.
"If the patient was
investigated enough ... he would have still been alive today," he said on
Wednesday.
Milosevic's family has accused the U.N. war crimes tribunal
of murdering the former Serb strongman by refusing his request to travel to
Russia for medical treatment.
A preliminary autopsy report showed
Milosevic, who had a heart condition and high blood pressure, died of a heart
attack and toxicology test results are due later this week.
A Dutch
expert said blood tests taken just weeks before Milosevic died suggested the
64-year-old, faced with a possible life sentence if convicted, had knowingly
taken harmful medicines to bolster his case to go to Russia for treatment.
The body of Milosevic was to be flown to Belgrade later on Wednesday for
burial, according to Milosevic's lawyer.
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