Death of a Die Hard

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AFP PHOTO/SASA STANKOVIC

File picture of former Serbian interior minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic, who shot himself outside the Yugoslav parliament, hours after it passed a law allowing the extradition of war crimes suspects to The Hague.

Friday, Apr. 19, 2002
Only a few hours after the Yugoslav parliament approved a bill allowing the extradition of war crimes suspects to The Hague, Vlajko Stojiljkovic, the Serbian interior minister under former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, fired a bullet into his own temple in front of the federal parliament building in Belgrade. Stojiljkovic's 11 April suicide attempt was not immediately successful and he was rushed to hospital, where he remained in critical condition until his death two days later.

The much-discussed Bill on Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, ich allows for the...