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A former Bosnian president facing extradition over war crime allegations has accused the British government of volunteering to "rewrite history".Speaking outside an extradition hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court, Ejup Ganic said he was "not happy" with his treatment by the UK authorities.
Mr Ganic was detained at Heathrow on 1 March at the request of Serbia.
His lawyers say moves for a trial in Serbia are politically motivated and claim his arrest was illegal.
Mr Ganic, 64, is accused of killing wounded Bosnian Serb soldiers in 1992 in the Balkan wars.
A judge at the court in London agreed on Tuesday that the process to extradite Mr Ganic to Serbia could go ahead.
Speaking outside the court Mr Ganic, who was granted bail on "stringent" conditions in March, said he was not happy with the UK government's decision to "initiate this process".
He said: "It appears the British government volunteers to do the police job for the Milosevic regime which is still more or less in some way very active.
"The British government also volunteered to help Serbs to rewrite the chapter of Srebrenica and other places where genocide has been committed."
Indictment
Mr Ganic, a friend of Baroness Thatcher, was a wartime leader who briefly acted as president.
He was indicted last year by a Belgrade court, along with 18 others, over an incident in which 42 soldiers from the Yugoslav army were said to have been killed.
It is alleged to have happened at the start of the conflict, after Bosnia had declared independence from the Serb-led former Yugoslavia.
Serbia says the Yugoslav convoy, accompanied by UN peacekeepers, was attacked during a retreat from a Bosnian Muslim area of Sarajevo, in violation of a safe passage pact.
Nightly curfew
Clare Montgomery QC, for Mr Ganic, says the allegations have already been rejected by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
After his arrest, thousands of Bosnians protested outside the British and Serbian embassies in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, demanding his release.
At the time, a Foreign Office spokesman said the arrest "in no way amounts to a diplomatic or political statement by the British government or any UK point of view on past events in the Western Balkans".
Mr Ganic's bail conditions included staying at an undisclosed London address, observing a nightly curfew and not applying for a passport or travel document.This article is from the BBC News website. ? British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.