Former Croatian general Ante Gotovina has been flown to the Hague, where he will tried for war crimes from the Balkans conflict last decade. Gotovina was arrested Wednesday night in Spain's Canary Islands. The Detention Unit of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Gotovina "is charged with persecutions, murder, plunder of property, wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, deportation and forced displacement, and other inhumane acts, which took place under his command and control, against the Serb population during and in the aftermath of the August 1995 Croatian military offensive known as Operation Storm." The tribunal said Storm "was intended to establish Croatian authority over the Krajina region of Croatia" where Serbs lived. "According to the indictment, another purpose of the operation was the forcible and permanent removal of the Serb population from that region. The indictment alleges that as commander of the Split Military District, Gotovina was the overall operations commander of Operation Storm in the southern portion of the Krajina region."

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