BELGRADE, Serbia, July 22 (UPI) -- Goran Hadzic, the last war crimes suspect from the Balkans conflict, was extradited Friday from Serbia to to The Hague, Netherlands, Serbian officials said.
Before he was flown from Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport to the Netherlands, a convoy left the Special Court in Belgrade for Novi Sad, where Hadzic visited his ill mother, B92 reported.
Security was high as Hadzic was taken to Novi Sad and along the route to the airport, officials said.
Hadzic spent seven years hiding from the authorities before his capture Wednesday in a mountain village north of Belgrade. He is the ninth Balkans conflict fugitive arrested by Serbian authorities in the past eight years.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia based in The Hague indicted Hadzic in 2004 but he fled his home in Novi Sad before the indictment was delivered. He was the last remaining fugitive of the 161 individuals the tribunal indicted.
Hadzic, former president of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina, was indicted for crimes against humanity and war crimes allegedly committed in the eastern Croatian city of Slavonia from 1991 to 1992, the United Nations said.
He allegedly participated in killing hundreds of Croatians and other non-Serbian civilians, deporting or forcibly transferring tens of thousands of them, and imprisoning and confining hundreds of them in detention facilities within and outside Croatia, the United Nations said.
