Serb war crime suspect surrenders
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BELGRADE, Serbia (CNN) -- A former Yugoslav army officer wanted on war crimes charges for his alleged role in a 1991 massacre during the Croatian war has turned himself in to Serbian authorities, officials said Monday.
Capt. Miroslav Radic and two other former officers are accused of ordering the killing of more than 200 civilians, who had taken refuge in a hospital in the eastern Croatian city of Vukovar.
U.N. war crime prosecutors have said Radic was a member of the unit that surrounded Vukovar and shelled it with artillery for months before taking the city in November.
The officer who led that unit, Gen. Mile Mrksic, surrendered last year and pleaded innocent at the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The third officer, Col. Veselin Sljivancanin, is still at large.
According to an indictment issued in 1995, the three officers ordered their troops to remove about 300 people from the hospital. They were taken to a farm, where they were severely beaten. Prosecutors said 198 men and two women were then killed and buried in mass graves. Fifty others were never seen again.
The three men were indicted in 1995 by the U.N. tribunal on charges of crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, and violations of the laws or customs of war for the beatings and the killings.
Radic is expected to be extradited to the U.N. tribunal at the Hague.
