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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A Serbian-Australian man accused of ordering the torture of Croats in the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia was arrested in Sydney Friday, officials said.
Croatian authorities have accused Dragan Vasiljkovic — known as "Captain Dragan" — of ordering the torture and expulsion of Croatian soldiers and civilians as a commander of a Serb paramilitary unit during the 1991 Serbo-Croat war.
Following a request by Croatian authorities, Vasiljkovic was arrested by federal police in Sydney, more than 2,400 miles away from his home in the Western Australian state capital, Perth.
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