Original sentence: ...Izetbegovic was one of the suspects under investigation as part of the current investigations, but the fact that he had died meant that all legal proceedings against him were dropped.A representative of the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY, Hartmann, made the following statement:.Although Alija Izetbegovic was never charged with war crimes for his role during the Bosnian war, following his death, the ICTY acknowledged that he had been under investigation for possible war crimes but that the investigation had been terminated when he died.Asked to confirm that up until he died he was under investigation, Hartmann replied that this was the case
Edited sentence: An ICTY investigation of Izetbegović was started, but terminated when he died.Early in the war, allegations of other atrocities were fabricated by the Croatian press as a pretext to justify the partition of Bosnia.In his autobiography Inescapable Questions, Izetbegović admits one occasion in which a small number of soldiers of the Bosnian army deliberately killed civilians, and details his government's struggles to maintain discipline over the hastily assembled army.Mladen Ivanić, president of Republika Srpska government and other Serb politicians and institutions twice petitioned the ICTY to indict him on war crimes and other charges