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Argentina Extradites War Crimes Suspect To Hague

Milan Lukic in 1992 (AFP)

20 February 2006 – Officials in Argentina say that Bosnian-Serb war crimes suspect Milan Lukic is being extradited to the UN war crimes court at The Hague in the Netherlands.

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February 20, 2006

The AP quotes Argentinian federal justice officials as saying Lukic was put on a plane headed for Spain, and will eventually arrive at The Hague.

Argentinian police captured Lukic in August 2005.

The UN court has charged Lukic, a former paramilitary soldier, with abducting and killing Muslims during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.

A Serbian court last year sentenced him in absentia to 20 years in prison for his involvement in the abductions.

(AP)

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