ZAGREB, Croatia, July 23 (UPI) -- Dinko Sakic, the last living commander of a World War II concentration camp, has died while serving a 20-year sentence in Croatia, prison officials report.
Sakic, 86, who headed a camp known as the "Auschwitz of the Balkans," fled to Argentina after the war and lived there for a half century under his real name, The New York Times said Wednesday.
He was found guilty in 1999 of killing more than 2,000 Serbs, Jews and Gypsies at the Jasenovac camp.
In addition to ordering executions and working inmates to death, Sakic was accused of using a blowtorch on inmates and shooting two prisoners because they smiled.
Unrepentant, Sakic once told a Croatian magazine that he'd "do it all again," adding that he wished more Serbs had died at his camp.
Sakic was extradited to Coatia in the late 1990s.
News reports at the time said Croatia made the request to keep Sakic out of the hands of the Serbs who also wanted to bring him to trial.
