(13 Mar 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of ICTY (international Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia) building
2. Wide of media crews gathering outside
3. SOUNBITE (English) Alexandra Milenov, ICTY spokeswoman
"It is not released to the United Nations, it is released, it is my understanding that they finished what they needed to do and that the body is now ready to be collected by the family."
4. Cut away cameraman and reporter
5. SOUNBITE (English) Alexandra Milenov, ICTY spokeswoman
"Normally in cases where an accused dies before the conclusion of proceedings, the proceedings are terminated."
6. Wide of Zdenko Tomanovic, lawyer for Slobodan Milosevic talking to media in front of the ICTY
7. SOUNBITE (English) Zdenko Tomanovic, lawyer for Slobodan Milosevic, reading from a letter his client wrote to him
++ AUDIO AS INCOMING ++
"Two months ago, an extremely strong drug was found in my blood which is used, as they themselves say, for the treatment of leprosy and tuberculosis, although I never used any antibiotics during these five years that I'm in their prison."
8. Cut away of cameramen
9. SOUNBITE (English) Zdenko Tomanovic, lawyer for Slobodan Milosevic
++ AUDIO AS INCOMING ++
"Now we are waiting for the autopsy, I believe (...)"
10. Zdenko Tomanovic walking away from the camera teams
STORYLINE
Dutch forensic pathologists who conducted the autopsy of Slobodan Milosevic have submitted the report to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
"It is my understanding that they finished what they needed to do and that the body is now ready to be collected by the family", said ICTY spokeswoman Alexandra Milenov who could not specify what the report's conclusion was.
The preparation of the final autopsy report may take more than one day, tribunal spokeswoman Alexandra Milenov said on Monday.
According to the Dutch experts, the autopsy lasted about eight hours and they found two types of the heart disease that the former Yugoslav leader suffered from and could explain the massive heart attack.
Last month, the tribunal rejected Milosevic's request to travel to Russia for special medical treatment, noting that his trial which already lasted four years, was in the final stages and he might not return to complete it.
Meanwhile in front of the ICTY, Zdenko Tomanovic, Milosevic's lawyer, read from one of Milosevic's last letters in which his clients expressed his fears of being poisoned: "Two months ago, an extremely strong drug was found in my blood which is used, as they themselves say, for the treatment of leprosy and tuberculosis, although I never used any antibiotics during these five years that I'm in their prison."
Milosevic, 64, was found dead Saturday in his bed at a U.N. prison near The Hague, where he was standing trial for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, the U.N. war crimes tribunal said in a statement.
Milosevic suffered a heart condition and high blood pressure which had repeatedly interrupted his trial in The Hague that started in February 2002 and had been expected to end this year.
Cardiologists treating Milosevic in The Hague had warned he was at risk of a potentially life threatening condition known as a hypertensive emergency, when surges in blood pressure can damage the heart, kidneys and central nervous system.
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