Former Bosnian Croat military policeman Mr Pasko Ljubicic, indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal, surrendered voluntarily to Croatian police today, state news agency Hina reported.
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Two Bosnian Serb women hold photographs of their sons, who were killed during the Bosnian war from 1992-95, at a protest organized by the Union of Parents of killed and missing Serb soldiers and civilians, in Banja Luka.
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It said Mr Ljubicic, accused of murder and persecution of Muslims in central Bosnia, handed himself over in Zagreb in the presence of his lawyer and was being interrogated by a county court investigative judge.
The tribunal based in The Hague unsealed its indictment against Mr Ljubicic (35) in October. It charged him for his alleged role in 1992-1993 atrocities against Muslims in central Bosnia, where he commanded a military police battalion.
The worst alleged crime is an attack on the Muslim village of Ahmici in 1993, where more than 100 civilians were killed.
In October, the tribunal cleared three Bosnian Croats of the same crime after an appeals chamber overturned their convictions.
Mr Ljubicic had announced his surrender last week through his lawyer and newspapers reported he was confident he could refute all charges levelled against him.