Sarajevo - A Bosnian lawyer said yesterday that a Serb suspect indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia has agreed to surrender and face trial. Mr Zoran Zigic from the Prijedor area in north-west Bosnia has decided he is ready to hand himself over but the time and place of his surrender has yet to be agreed, his lawyer, Mr Simo Tosic, said.
'He has the full confidence in the impartiality of the court,' Mr Tosic said. Mr Zigic was being held by Bosnian Serb military authorities on charges not connected to the tribunal indictment, the lawyer said.
The Hague-based tribunal has charged Mr Zigic (40) with numerous counts of beatings, torture and killings of inmates at Keraterm and Omarska detention camps during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, UN officials said.