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20feb06
Argentina sends Bosnian Serb war criminal to Hague.
A Bosnian Serb war criminal accused of leading a paramilitary group that killed dozens of Muslims during the war in Bosnia was transferred from Argentina to face charges at a U.N. war crimes court, an Argentine official said on Monday.
Milan Lukic, who had been on the run for nearly five years, was arrested in Buenos Aires on Aug. 8. He has been indicted on several counts of crimes against humanity during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war by an international tribunal at the Hague.
An official in the office of federal Judge Jorge Urso, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lukic was handed over to authorities and headed to The Hague.
The U.N. charges against Lukic include beatings, mass executions and barricading groups of Bosnian Muslim women and children into houses that were later set on fire and shooting anyone who tried to escape.
Serb officials say Lukic led a paramilitary group known as "The Avengers" or "White Eagles," who are blamed for the murders of at least 100 Bosnian Muslims.
Last year, Lukic was convicted for the 1992 murders of 16 Muslims from Serbia and sentenced in absentia by a Belgrade court to 20 years in prison.
In that case, Muslim men and women were kidnapped from a bus and their bodies later thrown into a river.
[Source: Reuters, Buenos Aires, Arg, 20Feb06]
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