Australian Serb jailed

A former Serb paramilitary commander with Australian citizenship was jailed for 15 years by a Croatian court on Tuesday for the torture and murder of civilians and prisoners of war in the 1990s. Dragan Vasiljkovic, known as "Captain Dragan", was extradited by Australia to Croatia two years ago after a decade-long legal battle.
The court in the coastal town of Split found Vasiljkovic guilty of torturing detainees in the ethnic Serb rebel stronghold of Knin and a deadly attack on the central town in Glina at the beginning of the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. He was charged with setting up an "improvised prison" at the Knin fortress in mid-1991.