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| Bosnian Muslim military commander to contest extradition |
| 2015-06-12 |
| [RFE/RL] Swiss officials say a Bosnian Muslim military commander who was arrested in Switzerland in connection with alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity will contest his extradition to Serbia. Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice said that Naser Oric was arrested in Thonex in the canton of Geneva on Wednesday based on a request submitted by Serbia in February last year. The FOJ will ask Serbian authorities to submit a formal extradition request within an 18-day period. In 1995 Bosnian Serb forces invaded a UN "safe haven" from where they took 8,000 Muslim men and boys to be executed in the days that followed. Oric, then a Bosnian army commander, was in charge of the town's defense. He was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against Serbs but was acquitted of all charges in 2008. Bosnian Prime Minister Denis Zvizdic said the arrest was politically motivated. |
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