Wife of Alleged War Criminal Held

Argentine police arrested the wife of alleged Croatian war criminal Dinko Sakic on suspicion that she too was responsible for atrocities at a World War II concentration camp. Police detained Esperanza Sakic hours after receiving a formal request from Interpol Yugoslavia, the agency’s operations chief in Argentina said. Suffering from Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses, Esperanza Sakic was ordered by a judge to be kept under house arrest until it is decided whether she will be extradited. Esperanza allegedly served from the age of 16 as a concentration camp guard under Croatia’s wartime Ustashe government--a puppet of the Nazis.