SEATTLE — A hearing to decide whether a man will be extradited to his native Bosnia to face war-crimes charges has been scheduled for Aug. 26.
Edin Dzeko, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had been living in Everett until his arrest in April by U.S. Marshals acting on a request from the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Dzeko, 39, appeared in federal court in Seattle on Wednesday morning. Dozens of people from the local Bosnian community were in the audience to support him, said his attorney, Stryder Wegener.
Prosecutors in Bosnia-Herzegovina have accused Dzeko and other members of the Bosnian Army of killing ethnic Croatian civilians and militia members in the village of Trusina in 1993. That was during a period of ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia that pitted Bosnian Muslims, Orthodox Christian Serbs and Roman Catholic Croatians against one another.
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