| Revision as of 20:46, 28 March 2006 editDismas (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, File movers, IP block exemptions, Pending changes reviewers79,891 editsm cats needed← Previous edit | Revision as of 21:40, 28 March 2006 edit undoCarcharoth (talk | contribs)Administrators73,576 edits Added two categoriesNext edit → | ||
| Line 27: | Line 27: | ||
| ==Trial== | ==Trial== | ||
| Recently, there was a false information that said that Kapetan Dragan will be surrendered to Croatia so he could be put on ]. The information was breaking news in Croatia but in Australia it was considered absurd. A debate is scheduled for April 13, 2006.Then, if his ] don't suceed in defending him, the Sidney ] will decide if he should or should not be surrendered to Croatia but then the Australian ] will decide whether to allow it or not, considering that he can change the decisions the court made. Kapetan Dragan is currently waiting in imprisonment. | Recently, there was a false information that said that Kapetan Dragan will be surrendered to Croatia so he could be put on ]. The information was breaking news in Croatia but in Australia it was considered absurd. A debate is scheduled for April 13, 2006.Then, if his ] don't suceed in defending him, the Sidney ] will decide if he should or should not be surrendered to Croatia but then the Australian ] will decide whether to allow it or not, considering that he can change the decisions the court made. Kapetan Dragan is currently waiting in imprisonment. | ||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
Revision as of 21:40, 28 March 2006
You must add a |reason= parameter to this Cleanup template – replace it with {{Cleanup|27 March 2006|reason=<Fill reason here>}}, or remove the Cleanup template.
 | This article has not been added to any content categories. Please help out by adding categories to it so that it can be listed with similar articles. |
| Dragan Vasiljković | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Kapetan Dragan(Captain Dragan) |
| Allegiance | Serbia |
| Rank | Captain |
| Commands | Knindže |
| Battles / wars | Croatian war of independence |
| Other work | Golf instructor |
Dragan Vasiljković was born December 12, 1954 as an Orthodox Christian. In early childhood, he was placed in Dom za nezbrinutu decu bez roditelja (a foster home) because his mother could not raise three children. Later he went to Australia with his mother under the name Daniel Snedden. There he learned the military arts, and he returned during the Croatian war of independence to Krajina as a volunteer where he founded the special forces under the Ministry of the Interior of the then Republic of Serbian Krajina (Republika Srpska Krajina). These special unit was called Knindže after the Krajina´s capital of Knin and the famous Ninja fighters, because Dragan´s forces were highly disciplined and scored a number of successful commando actions against croatian secessionist paramilitaries. During the war he founded the Largest NGO Found Kapetan Dragan - helping victims of war. After the war he returned to Perth, Australia. He was also a presidential candidate of Serbia in 1991, flew a single engine aircraft PA32 (N3507W) across Atlantic in 1990, sailed around the world (SY THYNDERCHILD - cutter rig) and is a Golfer single figure HCP.
War crimes
He is accused by the Republic of Croatia:for, in June and July 1991. in a prison on a Knin fortress and in February 1993 in Bruška at Benkovac, torturing, beating and killing captured members of Croatian Army and Police:for, as the commander of special units in July 1991. in Glina, in agreement with the commander of the tank unit JNA, making a plan to attack and take over the Glin Police station, a near city village Jukince and the villages Gornji i Donji Viduševac. During that attack, against the orders of the Geneva convention, civil buildings were damaged and ruined, citizens were forced to escape, their property was robbed and civilians (among them was a foreign journalist) were wounded and killed. Those accusations were made after the journal The Australian reported a story about him.
Victims
This is a statement from Darko Kaurić, a 41-year old croatian ex policeman who, in the middle of 1991. after Glina fell in the hands of the serbian paramilitary, has suffered beating from members of the squad that was under Kapetan Dragan's command:Of course i remember him. Last time i saw him i was beaten unconscious in front of him, so he should remember me too. My jaw was broken the first day of imprisonment and despite that, Dragan's men threw me on the floor and beated my head. Our bodies were completely blue and full of bruises, and they especially liked beating our earlier broken bones. Kaurić said that Kapetan Dragan did not personally beat any prisoners, but that he encouraged his subordinates to do so. He also says that during his 50-day imprisonment an officer nicknamed Kapetan Dragan visited him 3 times. His policeman colleague Milan Špoljarić, that was also imprisoned in Glina, said that in everyday beating they regularly beated his broken ribs. The journal states that after 15 years both policemen are not capable of normal work, and that they suffer from heavy psychical disturbations. Both croatian policemen say that Kapetan Dragan bragged how he lead the attack on the village in which they were born, in which after it fell was discovered 20 murdered civilians.
Trial
Recently, there was a false information that said that Kapetan Dragan will be surrendered to Croatia so he could be put on trial. The information was breaking news in Croatia but in Australia it was considered absurd. A debate is scheduled for April 13, 2006.Then, if his lawyers don't suceed in defending him, the Sidney Court will decide if he should or should not be surrendered to Croatia but then the Australian Minister of Justice will decide whether to allow it or not, considering that he can change the decisions the court made. Kapetan Dragan is currently waiting in imprisonment.
Categories: