Australia extradites Croat for wartime murders

A Croat charged with the killing of three policemen in 1991 was extradited from Australia to Croatia Sunday.

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Australia extradites Croat for wartime murders

Gudelj will be tried again for the killing of the Croatian district police chief in an eastern region and two of his aides—an incident which further raised tensions between Croats and Serbs in the area at the time.

The police chief, Josip Reihl-Kir, had tried to mediate between Serbs and Croats in eastern Croatia in an attempt to prevent nationalist tensions from exploding into armed conflict.

Some in Croatia believe Gudelj acted on behalf of hard-liners from late President Franjo Tuđman's then ruling party, who opposed negotiations with Serb rebels. The war, which erupted when Serb rebels took up arms to fight against Croatia's independence from the former Yugoslavia, ended in 1995.

Tuđman's government had denied any involvement in the killings. Gudelj insisted he acted alone at the trial here in 1994.

He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was pardoned in 1997 under a wide-ranging amnesty law.

Gudelj then returned to Australia, but Croatia's Constitutional Court ordered a retrial in 2001 and Croatia requested his extradition.

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