Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic has dismissed the United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal as a “satanic court” and refused to appear as a defence witness for his former political master, Radovan Karadzic.
A court reunion of the two alleged chief architects of Serb atrocities during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, lasted only about an hour as Mladic told judges repeatedly he would not answer former Bosnian Serb president Karadzic’s questions.
Both men are on trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague separately for crimes including genocide. Both insist they are innocent.
Mladic initially refused to give evidence, then said he would if officials fetched his dentures from his cell.
But even with his false teeth in place, Mladic said he was too ill and did not want to risk incriminating himself.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ratko-mladic-refuses-to-testify-for-his-former-serb-political-master-radovan-karadzic-9090198.html
