CROATIA MAKES REQUEST FOR EXTRADITION OF NADA SAKIC

( Editorial: --> 0504 ) ZAGREB, July 29 (Hina) - The County Court in Zagreb on Wednesday launched an investigation against Esperanza (Nada) Sakic, who was an official in a Croatian concentration camp between 1942 and 1945. Given that the suspect Sakic lives in Argentina, a decision on the investigation was submitted to the Croatian Ministry of Justice, which made an extradition request. The investigating judge of the Zagreb County Court decided to launch an investigation against the suspected Esperanza Tambic de Bilanovic Sakic on the basis of a request of the Zagreb County's state attorney's office, a County Court statement said on Wednesday. The investigation comes in the wake of founded suspicion that as a member of Ustasha units and an Ustasha official in the Stara Gradiska concentration camp between October 19, 1942 and early 1945, Nada Sakic breached the international law by torturing and inhumanely treating civilians, and by applying measures of intimidation and terror as well as collective punishment of civilians. According to the statement, detention has been determined for Nada Sakic. She will be given a court-appointed lawyer until she chooses one. Esperanza Sakic is the wife of Dinko Sakic, commander of another World War Two concentration camp, in Jasenovac, against whom an investigation is currently in course at the Zagreb County Court. Argentina extradited Dinko Sakic to Croatia in mid-June. (hina) ha jn 291155 MET jul 98