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Bosnian Serb General Surrenders to U.N.
2005-03-24
A senior Bosnian Serb general indicted in the 1995 massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica surrendered Wednesday to the U.N. war crimes tribunal, a court spokesman said. Vinko Pandurevic was driven to the U.N. detention center outside The Hague, Netherlands, after a flight from Belgrade arranged by the Serbian government. Serbian authorities had announced on Sunday that they had persuaded him to surrender.

Pandurevic has been indicted for genocide, violations of the laws or customs of war and crimes against humanity. The indictment against him was secretly issued in 1998 and unsealed in 2001. During Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Pandurevic commanded the Bosnian Serb army's so-called Zvornik Brigade. The brigade answered to commander Gen. Ratko Mladic and took part in the storming of Srebrenica, a U.N.-protected Muslim enclave, in July 1995. The onslaught was followed by summary executions of Muslim males in what became Europe's worst carnage since World War II. The indictment alleges Pandurevic intended to ethnically cleanse Srebrenica in an orchestrated effort to "destroy a part of the Bosnian Muslim people as a national, ethnical or religious group."
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