Slobodan Praljak (2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat engineer, film and theatre director, businessman, author and retired general in the Croatian Army and the Croatian Defence Council, an army of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. In 2013, he was among six Bosnian Croat politicians convicted at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes during the Croat-Bosniak War. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail. An appeal was heard in 2017 whereby Praljak, upon hearing the guilty verdict upheld, drank what he said was poison, and died shortly...