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Article: Bosnian Croat accused of war crimes is extradited to UN war crimes tribunal
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- June 24, 2003
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Dateline: ZAGREB, Croatia
A Bosnian Croat suspected of committing atrocities against Muslim
civilians during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia was extradited to the U.N.
war crimes tribunal where he will face trial, police reported Tuesday.
Ivica Rajic, 45, who holds both Croatian and Bosnian citizenship,
was arrested in Croatia in April, eight years after the court in The
Hague, Netherlands, issued an indictment against him for allegedly
ordering the slaughter of over a dozen Muslim civilians in a central
Bosnian village.
Rajic boarded a commercial passenger flight bound for Amsterdam, where
he was to be handed over to officials of the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
As a local ...