Argentina agreed to extradite a woman accused of war crimes at a Croatian concentration camp during World War II. Esperanza Sakic is accused of committing atrocities while a guard in the women’s section of the Stara Gradiska camp. Sakic’s husband, Dinko, was extradited to Croatia in June to face charges that he, too, committed atrocities while he was a commander at the Jasenovac camp between 1942 and 1944.
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