Serb general to surrender to war crimes tribunal
A top Bosnian Serb general who was a close aide to wartime commander Ratko Mladic is to surrender voluntarily to the UN war crimes tribunal.
The Serb government said retired General Milan Gvero has agreed to give himself up to the tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands, after talks with Justice Minister Zoran Stojkovic.
“The Serbian government highly values the decision by General Gvero to go voluntarily…and considers this to be a moral act in the interest of the state,” the government said in Belgrade.
Gvero is charged with the forceful expulsion and killing of Muslims on the eve of the 1995 Bosnian Serb onslaught on Srebrenica, where more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were executed.
He was part of the army staff at Mladic’s wartime headquarters during the 1992-95 Bosnian war and was in charge of army morale and media information. After the end of the war in his native Bosnia, Gvero lived in a town near Belgrade.
General Mladic and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic are the most wanted Bosnian war criminals.
