Momcilo Perisic, a former Serbian army chief of staff and political leader, is to become the latest in a string of former military chiefs to surrender to the UN tribunal over war crimes charges arising from the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. General Perisic, a one-time ally of Slobodan Milosevic, the ex-Yugoslav president, said that going before the court “is the only way I can defend my honour, the army’s reputation and the dignity of our people”. The tribunal in The Hague has not yet made public the charges against the general, now 60.Full Story