Serbia extradites war crimes suspect Goran Hadzic for trial at The Hague

22/07/2011

Police secure the area where Goran Hadzic was taken to see his ailing mother before his extradition
 
 
 
 
Source: Guardian
 
The Serbian authorities moved swiftly on Friday to rid themselves of their last international war crimes suspect and fugitive, extraditing the 1990s warlord Goran Hadzic for trial at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague only 48 hours after he was arrested.
 
The extradition to the Netherlands was hastened by the fact that Hadzic, a leader of the armed Serbian insurgency in Croatia in the early 1990s, did not appeal or seek to delay the transfer after seven years on the run ended with his capture in the hills north of Belgrade on Wednesday.
 
The capture crowned 18 years of operations for the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, with Hadzic the last of 161 wanted for trial.
 
Wednesday's arrest, two months after Belgrade captured genocide suspect General Ratko Mladic and dispatched him for trial in The Hague, also marked a turning point for Serbia in seeking to turn from a pariah past to a future in line with the European mainstream.
 
Hadzic, a former warehouse worker from Slavonia, a region in east Croatia, was a political leader of the Serbian rebellion in 1991, armed and sponsored by Slobodan Milosevic's regime in Belgrade.
 

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