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The Australian surgeon Craig Jurisevic is no stranger to war zones.

Craig worked in Israel and Gaza in the early 1990s, and he has served with the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps in East Timor and Afghanistan.

But it was his experiences in Albania and Kosovo in 1999 which had the most traumatic impact on him.

Craig felt a particular family connection with the region - his mother had been a refugee from the Communist government in Yugoslavia in the 1950s.

As the Serb forces swept into Kosovo and began their violent campaign of ethnic cleansing in the late 1990s, Craig decided to go there to use his medical skills to help the victims.

He ended up joining the Kosovo Liberation Army and taking up arms against the Serbs.

Along the way he witnessed horrific brutality - and says he was forced to carry out a mercy killing on a fatally wounded woman.

When Matthew Bannister spoke to him from Adelaide in Australia, he asked Craig what led him to get involved in Kosovo.

Craig Jurisevic's book about his experiences in Kosovo is called Blood On My Hands and is published by Wild Dingo Press.