June 03, 2011 03:52 pm | Updated December 04, 2021 11:43 pm IST - The Hague
Former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic removes his hat in the court room during his initial appearance at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday. Photo: AP.
Former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic has told a United Nations war crimes court he is “a gravely ill man” and refused to enter pleas to “obnoxious charges” alleging he orchestrated the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.
Closing his arraignment, he told Presiding Judge Alphons Orie on Friday he “defended my people and my country” during the Bosnian war.
Mladic said he wants to “live to see that I am a free man.”
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