The Hague, Netherlands, March 31, SPA -- Former Bosnian Serb Gen. Vinko Pandurevic will be asked to plead to genocide chargesfor the 1995 massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men andboys in Srebrenica, Bosnia, when he appears before theYugoslav tribunal Thursday. U.N. prosecutors indicted Pandurevic for genocide,violations of the laws or customs of war and crimes againsthumanity. The indictment against him was secretly issued in1998 and unsealed in 2001. During Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, Pandurevic commanded theZvornik Brigade, accused of participating in the massexecution of Bosnian Muslims in July 1995 at Srebrenica, aU.N.-declared safe zone. The brigade was under the commandof Gen. Ratko Mladic, a leading suspect who remains atlarge. The fall of Srebrenica, which was under the protection ofDutch peacekeeping troops, was followed by weeklong summaryexecutions in what became Europe's worst carnage sinceWorld War II. Thousands of bodies were dumped into massgraves. The indictment alleges Pandurevic intended to ethnicallycleanse Srebrenica in an orchestrated effort to "destroy apart of the Bosnian Muslim people as a national, ethnicalor religious group." Pandurevic was the 10th Serb to surrender to the U.N.court since October as Balkan states come under pressure tomeet the court's demands or be refused negotiations to jointhe European Union. Around half a dozen other suspects havesaid they too will turn themselves in. Mladic and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic topthe list of about a dozen suspects still wanted by thecourt, established in 1993 by the U.N. Security Council.--SPA1533 Local Time 1233 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/251132