Posted on 03/15/2005 4:59:13 AM PST by Crackingham
A former Bosnian Serb army officer indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal over the notorious 1995 massacre in the town of Srebrenica has decided to surrender to the court.
Drago Nikolic, 47, has been indicted for "genocide or complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity" committed during the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995, according to the indictment.
"After meeting with Serbian Justice Minister Zoran Stojkovic, Drago Nikolic decided to go voluntarily to the Hague tribunal," the Serbian government said in a statement Tuesday.
The Srebrenica massacre is considered the worst single atrocity on European soil since the end of World War II. The alleged architects of the genocide, former Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, remain at large.
Nikolic is expected to leave for The Hague, where the court is based, on Thursday, the government said.
He is the ninth Serb suspect to have voluntarily surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) since November, under the cooperation strategy of the Serbian government in Belgrade.
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