Bosnian Serb wanted by UN war crimes court surrenders to Belgrade

BELGRADE, Oct 9 (AFP) - A former head of security for the Bosnian Serb army has surrendered to authorities in Belgrade and was to be transfered to the UN war crimes court in The Hague late Saturday, the Serbian government announced.
Ljubisa Beara said he had turned himself in to protect the interests of the state and his family and insisted on being immediately transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, the government said in a statement.
It did not state the charges facing Beara, who was the Bosnian Serb army's chief of security when more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred by Serb forces in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.
He will be accompanied to The Hague by the defense minister of Serbia and Montenegro, Dragan Stojkovic, who will ask the court to provisionally release Beara ahead of his trial.