An alleged former female guard at a Croatian concentration camp said she would not oppose that country’s request to extradite her. Esperanza Sakic, who has been living in Argentina, is accused of having been a guard at the Jasenovac camp, where up to 500,000 people died during World War II. Sakic’s husband, Dinko, who was a commander at the camp, was extradited to Croatia in June.
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