A former Serbian paramilitary commander extradited to Croatia from Australia has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars for war crimes committed in the 1990s. The court found Dragan Vasiljkovic guilty of killing and torturing soldiers and civilians during Croatia's independence war from 1991 to 1995.
The decision makes him the first Australian citizen to be convicted of war crimes, as he was an Australian citizen who called Australia home since the late 1960s. After returning from the war on the Balkans he went back to civilian life, by teaching golf in Perth, just like nothing had happened.
25 years on, the Croation court ruled that Dragan was responsible, among others, for the death of German newspaper journalist Egon Scotland (image below).
