Arrested general would be 50th Serb extradited to Croatia

There is no criminal case in Serbia against retired General Borislav Djukic and for that reason Serbia cannot seek his extradition from Montenegro.

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Tuesday, 21.07.2015.

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Arrested general would be 50th Serb extradited to Croatia

Djukic was arrested at the airport in Tivat with Montenegrin authorities acting on a Croatian arrest warrant.

If Croatia requests his extradition and Montenegro approves it, Djukic will be the 50th Serb accused of war crimes allegedly committed during the 1990s extradited to Croatia.

At the same time, according to the Veritas Documentation and Information Center, no person suspected of war crimes committed against the Serb population have been extradited to Serbia.

Earlier this week, President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta urged the authorities in Belgrade to make an effort to have General Borislav Djukic transferred from extradition prison in Montenegro to Serbia.

Tanjug reported that "Linta believes that Serbia must do all it can to have Djukic, its citizen, tried by the war crimes department of the Higher Court in Belgrade."

The 67-year-old was the deputy commander of the central headquarters of the Army of Serbian Krajina during the war.

Croatia holds Djukic responsible for war crimes against civilians that occurred in the period from August 1991 until the end of 1993 when he served as commander of the 221st Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the 9th Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) Corps in Knin. He is also indicted for destruction of the Peruca dam in January 1993.

Director of Veritas Documentation and Information Center Savo Strbac told Tanjug on Monday that the dam was partially blown up by Croatian forces after they started Operation Maslenica in the territory of the Republic of Serbian Krajina that was under the protection of the United Nations, when they also took over the control of the dam.

A total of 348 people - soldiers and civilians, among them 35 women and three children under 12 - were killed as a result of the operation.

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