Yugoslav ex-general to surrender

Podgorica - Montenegro said yesterday a former Yugoslav army general indicted by the UN war crimes court over the shelling of…

Podgorica - Montenegro said yesterday a former Yugoslav army general indicted by the UN war crimes court over the shelling of the Croatian port of Dubrovnik was in hospital but would surrender to The Hague once he got better.

Retired Lieut-Gen Pavle Strugar (68), who currently lives in Yugoslavia's republic of Montenegro, has been indicted together with three other former officers over the 1991 shelling of Dubrovnik.

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