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ARGENTINA/CROATIA: DINKO SAKIC SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN JAIL

(4 Oct 1999) Natural Sound The former commander of a Croatian World War Two concentration camp has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Dinko Sakic, 78, was charged with crimes against humanity in the death of about 2-thousand people that he either carried out or condoned while running Croatia's infamous Jasenovac concentration camp in 1944. Jasenovac, described by Jewish groups as the «Auschwitz of Balkans,» was the worst of more than 20 concentration camps run by the then pro-Nazi puppet state of Croatia. Tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and antifascist Croats perished in Jasenovac in 1941-45. Dinko Sakic, the last known living commander of a World War Two concentration camp, on Monday was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to a maximum 20 years in prison. Sakic, who is 78, escaped prosecution for over 50 years living in the peaceful Argentinian seaside town of Teresita with his wife Nada who was a low rank commander in the female division of the same camp. Jasenovac, described by Jewish groups as the «Auschwitz of Balkans,» was the worst of more than 20 concentration camps run by the then pro-Nazi puppet state of Croatia. Tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and antifascist Croats perished in Jasenovac in 1941-45. Unlike the more famous Auschwitz and Belsen camps there were no gas chambers in Jasenovac. Instead inmates were slaughtered by hand, knife or simply shot. During the six-month trial, more than 30 camp survivors recalled starvation, untreated diseases and killings of inmates deemed unfit to work. They remembered fearing for their lives, seeing others bleed or die. Chief Judge Drazen Tripalo said the seven-member court panel found Sakic guilty of all charges, saying that he «maltreated, tortured and killed inmates and did nothing to prevent his subordinates to do the same.» He also said that Sakic was personally responsible for killing four inmates. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...