A former Croatian concentration camp commander maintained he is innocent of any wartime crimes and wants to be extradited as soon as possible to prove it. Dinko Sakic’s comments came as an Argentine judge approved an extradition request from Croatia, which wants to try him for crimes he allegedly committed while he was commandant at the Jasenovac camp from 1942 to 1944. According to some estimates, more than 500,000 Jews, Serbs and Gypsies were murdered at the camp, run by Croatia’s Nazi puppet regime.
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