Croatian Gen Rahim Ademi has decided to turn himself in to the UN war crimes tribunal and is expected to travel to The Hague in the next 10 days, a government spokeswoman said yesterday. Gen Ademi, who is still serving as an assistant to the chief inspector of the defence ministry, had been the target of a sealed indictment - one of two handed over to the Croatian government - for crimes allegedly committed against ethnic Serbs in the early 1990s.
It is expected the general will go The Hague within the next 10 days, a government spokeswoman said.
Meanwhile, the former Yugoslav president Mr Slobodan Milosevic's wife, Ms Mira Markovic, has been granted a visa to visit him in prison in The Hague, the Dutch government said yesterday.
"Today the Netherlands government has decided to grant under strict conditions the visa for the spouse [Mira] Markovic and the daughter-in-law [Milica] Gajic . . . in order to visit him in the prison of Scheveningen," a Dutch foreign ministry spokesman said.