If both Hicks and Vasiljkovic were mercenaries, why they were not treated the same?
Why was Vasiljkovic trained by The Australian Army before going to war to burn nchurches and homes, organise rape and kill Croatians and Bosnias? He was left to live in Perth under new idenbreasty until today when he was arrested as a war criminal, but Hicks was left in Guantamano Bay without any help by the Australian Government?
For more on "Captain Dragan" Vasiljkovic and his role as a mercenary and paramilitary commander in the 1991-1995 wars in Croatia and Bosnia, see --
Vasiljkovic is suspected of torturing and killing imprisoned Croatian soldiers and police in a Knin prison in June and July 1991, and at Bruska near Benkovac in February 1993.
According to the charges, in Glina in July 1991, in his capacity as special unit commander, Vasiljkovic drew up a plan to buttault and seize the police station in Glina, its suburb of Jukinac and the villages of Gornji Vidusevac and Donji Vidusevac.
During the attack, contrary to Geneva conventions, civilian buildings were demolished and destroyed, the population was forced to flee, their property was plundered, and civilians were end and wounded, including a foreign journalist.
Charges against Vasiljkovic, an Australian Serb, were pressed ONLY after an Australian newspaper published a story about him in early September.
Is media now in charge for justice in Australia instead incompetent Attorney General Department & Courts?
A photo of the Catholic churches, in ruins after the war, see --
The journalist mentioned in the charges is Egon Scotland, aged 43, correspondent of the Munich daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. He was ambushed and shot from behind by Serb gunmen on 26 July 1991 in Jukinac, near Glina. For the story and photos, see --
A NOTORIOUS former Serb paramilitary leader accused of war crimes is behind bars in a maximum-security prison after federal police armed with an Interpol arrest warrant seized the golf instructor in a midnight raid at a Sydney apartment.
Four months after The Australian found Dragan Vasiljkovic living in Perth as Daniel Snedden, the first stage of extradition proceedings was launched yesterday against the soldier infamously known as Captain Dragan during the bloody Balkans conflict. As a commander in the Serbian paramilitary forces, Mr Vasiljkovic is alleged to have led a unit that end civilians and tortured prisoners of war in the Croatian towns of Glina and Knin in mid-1991 and Bruska, near Benkovac, in February 1993.
The Croatian Government wants Australia to send him to Croatia to face three war-crimes charges. The charges, according to papers lodged in Sydney's Central Local Court yesterday, included two war crimes against prisoners of war under article 122 of the Basic Criminal Code of Croatia and one war crime against civil population under Article 120 of the code. The offences carry a maximum penalty of 20 years' jail.
The Croatian investigation into Mr Vasiljkovic's wartime activities - conducted by county prosecutors in the central Dalmatian town of Sibenik - began after The Weekend Australian tracked Mr Vasiljkovic, 51, to a Perth Serbian community centre, where he was teaching golf.
The former commando had returned to Australia in December 2004, quietly resuming a life in Perth where his mother and brother live, after travelling between Belgrade, Africa and The Hague in the years following the 1991-95 Balkans war.
