Serb general Pavkovic to surrender to Hague

Former Yugoslav Army chief-of-staff Nebojsa Pavkovic will go to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague to face charges…

Former Yugoslav Army chief-of-staff Nebojsa Pavkovic will go to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague to face charges of war crimes in Kosovo, the Serb government said today.

He is one of four generals indicted in October 2003 for planning and ordering murders of Kosovo Albanian civilians in 1999 while battling ethnic Albanian separatist guerrillas.

He will fly to The Hague on Monday, the government said.

Faced with mounting Western pressure, Serbia persuaded his co-indictee army general Vladimir Lazarevic to surrender in February, followed by police general Sreten Lukic in April.

Police general Vlastimir Djordjevic fled to Russia in 2001.

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