Half-blind, senile, and emaciated from heart disease, Andrija Artukovic seemed oblivious as U.S. marshals bundled him aboard a JAT airlines flight to Yugoslavia last week. Only after staring hard at an illuminated sign in the plane that read FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT in Serbo-Croatian did Artukovic, 86, speak. Said he: "Now I know where I'm going." Indeed, his destination was a long-delayed date with justice. As Interior Minister in the puppet Nazi state of Croatia during World War II, Artukovic was known as the Butcher of the Balkans and held responsible for the murder of as many as 700,000 Serbs, Jews,...
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