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Andrija Artukovic, 86, extradited from the United States in February, goes on trial today in Yugoslavia on charges that he ordered the killing of thousands of Jews, Serbs and Gypsies in World War II. If convicted, he could face a firing squad; the minimum is five years in jail. Labeled by Yugoslav news media as “the butcher of the Balkans,†Artukovic, who had been living in Seal Beach, Calif., is accused of atrocities from 1941 to 1945 when he was police minister in the Nazi puppet state of Croatia.
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