General to surrender to war crimes tribunal

A SENIOR Bosnian Serb general indicted for genocide in the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica is to surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal, the Serbian government said.

Vinko Pandurevic, a top fugitive since the end of the 1992-95 war in neighbouring Bosnia, will travel to the Netherlands tomorrow to give himself up to the UN court at The Hague, the government said.

He will be the 10th Serb war crimes suspect to give himself up to the tribunal since October. Belgrade has been under intense international pressure to extradite about a dozen suspects still at large before the European Union issues a report, expected in April, on whether the Balkan country can start membership negotiations.