ZAGREB The trial of the world's last known living World War Two concentration camp commander, adjourned 10 days ago because the defendant was ill, will now go ahead, a judge told the county court on Monday. A composed and relaxed Dinko Sakic, 77, smiled as he sat down in court and told the judge he had recovered from health problems which had forced the hearing to be postponed.

He was rushed to hospital just before his trial opened on March 4, having fainted in his prison cell. But on Monday one of two expert medical witnesses told the court the trial could proceed. Sakic is the first member of the brutal fascist Ustashe regime to be tried for war crimes relating to World War Two since Croatia became independent from Yugoslavia in 1991. The Ustashe brutally persecuted, Serbs, Gypsies, Jews and anti-fascist Croats while they ruled the independent state of Croatia which covered most of present-day Croatia and parts of Bosnia and Serbia, from 1941 to 1945. It was allied to Nazi Germany. (Reuter)