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27Jun05
Serbs to ask extradition of alleged war criminal held in Argentina.
BELGRADE June 27 (AFP) -- The government of Serbia-Montenegro is to request the extradition of a Serbian man arrested last month in Argentina and suspected of having ordered war crimes as part of a paramilitary group in the province of Kosovo six years ago, the Beta news agency said on Monday.
The agency said Human Rights Minister Rasim Ljajic, whose department is in charge of extradition issues on behalf of the loose Serbia-Montenegro federation, intended to make a formal request for the extradition of Nebojsa Minic.
Minic, who is aged around 40, was arrested in late May in the Argentinian city of Mendoza after an anonymous tip-off.
As a member of a Serbian paramilitary unit during the brief 1999 conflict in Kosovo, he is accused of having ordered the murder, torture and rape of 12 members of an ethnic Albanian family in the town of Pec.
In Argentina, Minic was found to be carrying false identity papers in the name of a minister who served under the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, who is himself on trial in The Hague before the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Monday's report said Minic was seriously ill in a Mendoza hospital with both AIDS and cancer.
[Source: Agence France-Presse, 27Jun05]
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