THE HAGUE, Netherlands, March 11 (UPI) -- The judge presiding over the U.N. war crimes tribunal has ordered a full inquiry into the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
"The Dutch Police and a Dutch coroner were called in and started an enquiry," the tribunal said in a statement. "A full autopsy and a toxicological examination have been ordered."
A guard found Milosevic dead in his cell at The Hague in the Netherlands Saturday morning.
Milosevic was the strong-armed leader of Yugoslavia in a time of Serbian unification.
He is accused of orchestrating genocide and other war crimes including "ethnic cleansing" for his roles and refusal to stop violence in his country.
He resigned his post as president in Oct. 2000 after 13 years in power, lost an election but refused to quit, doing so only after international pressure and mass protests across the country.
The U.N. tribunal accuses Milosevic of "ordering the persecution, deportation and murder of Kosovar Albanians" in 1999 as well as using mass rape as a war tactic.
Milosevic's lawyer said that the autopsy should be done outside the Netherlands, because Milosevic complained of being poisoned, the BBC said.
His wife, who is wanted in Serbia, is in Russia, and Milosevic, who suffered from high blood pressure and heart problems, had asked to be sent there for medical treatment.
