UN court exposes uneasy legacy of Croatia's 'father' Tudjman Last month's final ruling at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was overshadowed by the dramatic death of Bosnian Croat Slobodan Praljak, who drank cyanide in court after judges upheld his sentence for 1990s war crimes. But of arguably greater significance to Croatia was the judges' censure of Franjo Tudjman, the country's first president, who died in 1999 but remains a hero to many Croats for winning independence, despite the flaws of his autocratic rule. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES