THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A defiant Ratko Mladic plunged his Yugoslav war crimes tribunal arraignment into chaos Monday, repeatedly shouting at judges, defying their orders and refusing to enter pleas to 11 charges before the presiding judge threw him out of the hearing.
After a brief adjournment to have Mladic removed, Presiding Judge Alphons Orie resumed the hearing and formally entered not-guilty pleas on Mladic's behalf, in line with court rules for suspects who refuse to plead.
Shortly before guards escorted Mladic from court, he shouted at Orie, "You want to impose my defense, what kind of a court are you?"
Mladic, 69, is accused of masterminding the worst Serb atrocities of Bosnia's 1992-95 war that cost 100,000 lives. He is accused of genocide as the top military official overseeing the 1995 killing of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, Europe's worst mass killing since World War II.
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