HIS death sent conspiracy theorists into overdrive, but it now looks possible that Slobodan Milosevic accidentally brought on his death by trying to make a real illness appear worse.
The 64-year-old former president of Yugoslavia died of a heart attack on 11 March while detained by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague in the Netherlands. An autopsy revealed normal levels of prescription cardiovascular drugs in his blood, and no poisons or non-prescribed drugs. However, a blood sample taken on 12 January contained the antibiotic rifampicin, which had not been prescribed.
Milosevic was known to have…
