Croatian prosecutors said they would begin interviewing witnesses next week in the trial of a former concentration camp commander. From 1942 to 1944, Dinko Sakic was commander of the Jasenovac camp, where an estimated 500,000 Serbs, Jews and Gypsies died. Sakic was extradited to Croatia after a television expose showed that he was living in Argentina.
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