Milosevic extradited to The Hague

By Vaiju Naravane

PARIS, JUNE 27. The former Serbian strongman, Mr. Slobodan Milosevic, has been extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal on the former Yugoslavia at The Hague in The Netherlands.

Mr. Milosevic is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity for the massacre of several thousand Albanians in Kosovo and for acts committed in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina during the wars which led to the independence of these former Yugoslav republics.

In dramatic developments in Belgrade, he was extradited just hours after Serbia's Constitutional Court accorded him a further delay in his trial.

Mr. Milosevic had been handed over to an official of the U.N. war crimes tribunal, the Yugoslav Prime Minister's spokesman confirmed late on Thursday. He said that the federal Government had the right to overturn a decision handed down by the constitutional court in Serbia, which with the republic of Montenegro now constitutes the rump Yugoslavia.

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