Top Croatian war crimes suspect arrested in Canary Islands

The chief UN war crimes prosecutor today said that the top Croatian war crimes fugitive, Gen. Ante Gotovina, had been arrested in Spain’s Canary Islands after four years on the run.

Croatia has been under intense pressure from the European Union to arrest Gotovina and turn him over to the UN war crimes tribunal for trial on charges he masterminded the killing of at least 150 Serbs and the expulsion of some 150,000 others during Croatia’s bitter 1991-1995 war.