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Item # 726606
May 15, 1986
LOS ANGELES TIMES, May 15, 1986 

* Andrija Artuković convicted of war crimes
* "Butcher of the Balkens" - Croatia 
* Jewish holocaust - concentration camps  
* Brutality against Jews, Serbs and Roma 

The front page has a two column heading: "Artukovic Sentenced to Die for War Crimes" with subhead and photo. (see images) 
Complete 1st section only with all 40 pages, light toning along the central fold, good condition.

Background: The conviction of Andrija Artuković on May 14, 1986, stands as a landmark moment in international law and Holocaust justice, marking the end of a decades-long pursuit of one of the highest-ranking Nazi collaborators to survive the war. Known as the "Butcher of the Balkans," Artuković served as the Minister of the Interior for the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), where he orchestrated the systematic genocide of Serbs, Jews, and Roma through the brutal Ustaše regime. His sentencing to death by a Zagreb court for massacres—including the execution of 450 civilians and the destruction of the town of Vrginmost—signified a major victory for the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), which had fought for over 30 years to extradite him from his refuge in California. Beyond the individual verdict, the trial served as a rare and public reckoning with the atrocities committed at the Jasenovac concentration camp and elsewhere in the Balkans, effectively stripping away the "political refugee" defense often used by war criminals and reinforcing the legal principle that crimes against humanity have no statute of limitations and no safe harbor.