Andrija Artuković (November 29, 1899 - January 16, 1988), was a Croatian right-wing politician and a person convicted of war crimes and genocide committed against minorities in the WWII 'Independent State of Croatia' (NDH). November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... A war crime is a punishable offense, under international law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. ... Look up Genocide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Genocide has been defined as the deliberate killing of people based on their ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, or (sometimes) politics, as well as other deliberate actions leading to the physical elimination of any of the above categories. ... The Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) was a Nazi/Fascist puppet state in World War II. It was set up in April 1941 on parts of the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after its occupation. ...

Artuković was born in Klobuk near Ljubuški (in Bosnia and Herzegovina, then a colony of Austria-Hungary), and studied at a Franciscan monastery at Široki Brijeg in Herzegovina. In the 1930s, he became part of the revolutionary group the Ustaše, and led a failed uprising in Lika after which he fled to Italy. Ljubuški is a town in western Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi. ... Široki Brijeg is a town in northern Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Herzegovina (natively Херцеговина/Hercegovina) is a historical region in the Dinaric Alps that composes the southern part of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Events and trends Technology Jet engine invented First atom was split with a particle accelerator Golden Age of radio begins in U.S. Disney adopts a three-color Technicolor process for cartoons First Kit Kat in UK The photocopier is invented by Carlson Air mail service across the Atlantic Science... The Ustaše (often spelled Ustashe in English; singular Ustaša or Ustasha) was a Croatian far-right organisation put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers in 1941. ... Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast. ...

During World War II, in 1941 Artuković was named the Minister of the Interior in the newly-formed NDH. He was closely involved in the genocide of Serbs, Jews, Roma, and other minorities, and the opening of concentration camps such as Jasenovac. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) was a Nazi/Fascist puppet state in World War II. It was set up in April 1941 on parts of the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after its occupation. ... Look up Genocide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Genocide has been defined as the deliberate killing of people based on their ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, or (sometimes) politics, as well as other deliberate actions leading to the physical elimination of any of the above categories. ... Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Roma people (pronounced rahma, singular Rom, sometimes Rroma, and Rrom) along with the closely related Sinti people are commonly known as Gypsies in English, and as Tsigany in most of Europe. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... Jasenovac gate Jasenovac was the largest concentration and extermination camp in Croatia during the World War II, and possibly the third largest in the world at the time. ...

After the war he escaped via Bleiburg and Switzerland to Ireland and then finally California where he lived until the mid-1980s. His extradition was requested by the Yugoslav authorities to be put on the trial for war crimes, causing deaths of several thousand persons. It was first stayed by an immigration judge and shelved for two decades, but then reactivated and after a long court battle he was eventually expelled from the USA to Yugoslavia. Bleiburg is a small city in the state of Carinthia, Austria, south-east of Klagenfurt, in the district of Völkermarkt, near the Slovenian border. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a Balkan state that existed from 1945 to 1992. ... A war crime is a punishable offense, under international law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. ...

The court in Zagreb convicted him to death on May 14, 1986, but a year later the authorities ruled he was too ill to be executed, so he died a natural death in a prison hospital in Zagreb. This article is about courts of law. ... Zagreb (pronounced ZAH-greb) is the capital city of Croatia. ... Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...