Serb general Lukic surrenders to Hague court

A former Serb police general has left Belgrade for The Hague today to surrender to the United Nations war crimes tribunal on …

A former Serb police general has left Belgrade for The Hague today to surrender to the United Nations war crimes tribunal on charges of war crimes in Kosovo.

Sreten Lukic, the former head of the heavily armed MUP paramilitary force, is one of four generals indicted in October 2003 for planning and ordering murders of Kosovo Albanian civilians in 1999 while Serbia battled ethnic Albanian separatist guerrillas.

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