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Wanted Bosnian Serb general to surrender

[JURIST] Former Bosnian Serb general Vinko Pandurevic [ICTY case information sheet], wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for war crimes [indictment] during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, has agreed to surrender [AFP report] to the UN war crimes court in The Hague. Pandurevic is wanted for his connection with the massacre of some 8,000 Muslims [Wikipedia entry] by Serb forces in the eastern town of Srebrenica. The Serbian government says Pandurevic will travel [Melbourne Herald Sun report] with a government official to The Hague on Wednesday.

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