ARGENTINA: AUTHORITIES DETAIN AND WILL EXTRADITE BOSNIAN SERB PARAMILITARY WANTED FOR WAR CRIMES

Record ID: 448936

  • Title: ARGENTINA: AUTHORITIES DETAIN AND WILL EXTRADITE BOSNIAN SERB PARAMILITARY WANTED FOR WAR CRIMES
  • Date: 10th August 2005
  • Summary: (BN17) BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (AUGUST 09, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF POLICE STATION WHERE MILAN LUKIC WAS DETAINED; SCU POLICE OFFICER ON DUTY (VARIOUS) 0.15 (BN17) BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (FILE) (REUTERS) 2. SCU STILL BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS OF LUKIC WHEN HE WAS STILL IN BOSNIA, WEARING MILITARY UNIFORM; SCU STILL PHOTOGRAPH OF LUKIC WHILE IN BOSNIA WHEN GETTING A HAIR CUT (VARIOUS) 0.28 (BN17) BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (AUGUST 09, 2005) (REUTERS) 3. SLV APARTMENT BUILDING WHERE LUKIC WAS RENTING A FLAT (VARIOUS) 0.58 4. SLV EXTERIOR OF COURT; VEHICLE TRANSPORTING LUKIC LEAVING BUILDING, LUKIC IS IN BACKSEAT, WITH HEAD DOWN (VARIOUS) 1.50 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
  • Country: Argentina
  • Reuters ID: LVAB8DXYV7WGK3Y1I5WKQATS15QL
  • Story Text: Argentine authorities detain and will extradite
    Bosnian Serb paramilitary wanted for war crimes.



    A Bosnian Serb paramilitary sentenced for crimes
    committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war and wanted by a
    U.N. war crimes court has been arrested in Argentina.

    A spokeswoman for Argentina's federal police who asked
    not to be named said Milan Lukic was detained on an
    international arrest warrant and was taken to Argentina's
    court on Tuesday (August 09).

    Judicial authorities confirmed that Lukic will be
    extradited to The Hague, Netherlands where he will be tried
    on the charges against him. No date has been set.

    Lukic was tried in absentia in July by a Belgrade judge
    for the murder of 16 Muslims in October 1992 and sentenced
    to 20 years in prison.

    Yugoslav officials say Lukic headed a paramilitary
    group believed responsible for abducting, torturing and
    killing the victims, all Yugoslav nationals.

    Lukic is being held in a Buenos Aires jail and was
    expected to appear in court for questioning before a
    federal judge in the coming days, the spokeswoman said.
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