ZAGREB, June 24 (Hina) - Ivica Rajic, a former commander of Bosnia's Croatian Defence Council (HVO) who has been charged with war crimes, was turned over to Dutch police at Amsterdam's Schipol airport shortly after 11 a.m. on Tuesday,
which completes the process of his extradition, Croatian interior ministry spokeswoman Zinka Bardic said.
ZAGREB, June 24 (Hina) - Ivica Rajic, a former commander of Bosnia's
Croatian Defence Council (HVO) who has been charged with war
crimes, was turned over to Dutch police at Amsterdam's Schipol
airport shortly after 11 a.m. on Tuesday, which completes the
process of his extradition, Croatian interior ministry spokeswoman
Zinka Bardic said. #L#
Rajic arrived in Amsterdam escorted by Croatian criminal police
aboard a Croatia Airlines passenger flight. Dutch police will take
him to the Hague tribunal's detention centre at Scheveningen.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
indicted Rajic, 45, in October 1995 for the killing of at least 16
Muslims in the central Bosnian village of Stupni Do in October
1993.
Rajic had been at large, using the alias Viktor Andric, until April
this year, when he was arrested in Split.
On April 30, Zagreb's county court approved Rajic's extradition to
the Hague tribunal, a decision confirmed by the Supreme Court on
June 9 after overturning Rajic's appeal.
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