Nazi returned to Yugoslavia
NZPA-Reuter Belgrade An alleged Nazi war criminal, Andrija Artukovic, arrived in Yugoslavia yesterday after being expelled from the United States. The official Yugoslav news agency, Tanjug, said he would stand trial for war crimes.
Artukovic, aged 86, an Interior Minister in the Nazi-controlled Government of Croatia, was immediately taken into custody after being flown from New York.
Artukovic, who had been fighting an order for his extradition made by a Los Angeles court in March, 1985, would “have to account for the deaths of over 700,000 men, women and children,”
Tanjug said. Earlier, the United States Justice Department announced that Artukovic, who lived in the United States for 38 years, had been sent back to Yugoslavia after the United States Supreme Court refused to block his extradition. Tanjug said he had been charged with ordering the deaths of 1293 people. His trial would be held at Zagreb, in northern Yugoslavia. The news agency said evidence existed about concentration camps set up or controlled by Artukovic, in which genocide against Serbs, Jews and Gipsies had been committed and atrocities perpetrated against children.
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Press, 14 February 1986, Page 6
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