The World - News from April 23, 1986

A former police chief in wartime Croatia testified that Andrija Artukovic told him, “Slaughter all Serbs and Jews, one after the other.” Artukovic, 86, who served as interior minister in the Nazi puppet state in World War II, is on trial in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, on war crimes charges. The witness, Franjo Truhar, 85, quoted Artukovic as saying, “You see how I have resolved the Jewish question: I take everything from them, and then I kill them.” Artukovic acknowledged meeting with Truhar but called his testimony “a lie.”