Indicted general says has no reason to surrender to ICTY Tanjug

Indicted general says has no reason to surrender to ICTY
Tanjug - November 9, 2003

17:31 JAGODINA , Nov 9 (Tanjug) - Retired Serbia-Montenegro (SCG) Army General Nebojsa Pavkovic has said in Jagodina that he sees no reason why he should surrender to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which has indicted him for war crimes in Kosovo in 1999.

Pavkovic said in an interview carried late Saturday by local TV Palma Plus that he is a soldier, and that army regulations say that a soldier never surrenders. A soldier may be captured, and the regulations also say how he must behave in such a case, Pavkovic said.

Former Yugoslav army chief vows not to surrender to UN court
EXCERPT: AFP - November 9, 2003

Pavkovic denied the allegations [made against him by the ICTY].

"The army did not commit any crime, and it was never ordered by anyone to do so," he said. "Neither I nor any of my commanders ordered such thing."

Pavkovic said that he had personally "fought with all my power to prevent crimes. If I had had a chance to find anyone who had committed a crime, I would probably have decided to execute him."

"Those who committed the crimes were arrested and handed to justice," he added. (End Excerpt)