A former Yugoslavian army commander indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal for atrocities his forces committed on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo is to surrender to the court in The Hague.
Gen Dragoljub Ojdanic - who led government forces that drove 800,000 people from their homes and killed thousands during the 1998-99 war in the Serbian province - told reporters at Belgrade's airport he felt "like any other hero" as he headed to the tribunal.
Gen Ojdanic (60) said the charges against him are unfounded.
Gen Ojdanic, travelling on a flight to Amsterdam with his wife and a lawyer, is among six suspects who said they would surrender rather than face possible arrest and extradition.
A total of 24 Serbs are on the UN court's list of suspects wanted for alleged war crimes committed during the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
They took part in war campaigns led by Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president already on trial in The Hague.
AP