A former Serbian paramilitary commander with Australian dual citizenship has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for war crimes.
Dragan Vasiljkovic, also known as "Captain Dragan", was convicted of torturing prisoners and a deadly attack on a village during the Croatian war of independence in the early 1990s.
He had been living in Australia prior to his extradition to Croatia in 2015.
Vasiljkovic, 62, was convicted by a court in the town of Split on Tuesday.
The court heard that Vasiljkovic had directed his subordinates to torture captured Croat soldiers in a makeshift prison he had set up in the rebel Serb stronghold of Knin.
He was also found guilty of orchestrating an attack on the town of Glina which killed two civilians and forced others to flee their homes.
Vasiljkovic was acquitted of the 1993 torture and murder of two Croat soldiers in another village.
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