Italian Police Arrest War Criminal Convicted for War Crimes Committed in Croatia
February 20th, 2008
Zagreb, February 20 (CP) — The Italian police have arrested Sreten Peslac who had an arrest warrant issued for him for committing war crimes in Croatia and being sentenced in absentia by the Sibenik court to 10 years in prison.
Peslac was a member of a Serb paramilitary group which forced Croats out of their homes during the Homeland war.
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