Se lo responsabiliza de la masacre del hospital de Vukovar y de la deportación de 20.000 personas luego de capturar la ciudad.
War crimes suspect Goran Hadzic is being flown from Serbia to face the UN court at The Hague.
A police motorcade, sirens blaring, was earlier seen leaving the Belgrade jail where Mr Hadzic was being held.
Before being taken to the airport, Mr Hadzic, 52, was allowed to see his sick mother in northern Serbia.
Mr Hadzic led Serb separatist forces during Croatia's 1991-1995 war and was arrested on Wednesday after seven years on the run.
Last fugitive
Mr Hadzic was a central figure in the self-proclaimed Serb republic of Krajina in 1992-1993, leading the campaign to block Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia.
He faces 14 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including persecution, extermination and torture.
He is held responsible for the massacre of almost 300 men in Vukovar in 1991 by Croatian Serb troops and for the deportation of 20,000 people from the town after it was captured.
Mr Hadzic is the last fugitive of 161 indicted for war crimes during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
BBC correspondent Mark Lowen in Belgrade says Mr Hadzic's extradition is a defining moment for Serbia.
He says the country hopes it will allow it to draw a line under the war crimes story and move closer to European Union membership.
For years prosecutors in The Hague complained that Belgrade was not doing enough to track down top war crimes suspects, including Mr Hadzic, and that criticism delayed progress in Serbia's EU bid.
Mr Hadzic's arrest comes less than two months after Serbia caught former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic.
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