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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A Serbian-Australian man accused of ordering the torture of Croats during the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia was arrested in Sydney, the attorney general said Friday.
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, 2,500 miles away from his home in the Western Australian state capital of Perth.
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