Hague Judge Orders Mladic Removed From Courtroom

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“Don’t read it to me, not a single word,” Mr. Mladic had said moments earlier in a tense exchange with Judge Alphons Orie, as the judge prepared to read out a long list of criminal charges.

It was the second court appearance in The Hague for Mr. Mladic, who was captured in May after nearly 16 years on the run. The hearing was his opportunity to enter a plea on the grave charges he faces, including genocide, persecution, deportation and other atrocities of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. A court appointed-lawyer for Mr. Mladic had already said the former general would refuse to cooperate until he could bring in his own legal team.

But instead of boycotting the session, as he had warned, Mr. Mladic seemed intent on making his presence felt.

The former general, known for his cruelty during the war, tried pity before defiance. After the judge ordered him to take off his cap, he asked to keep it on because he said his head was cold. When the judge said he could have “two or three minutes” to speak, Mr. Mladic, 69, replied: “Since I’m an elderly man and sickly, can I have five minutes?”

Mr. Mladic is accused of the leading the worst Serb atrocities of the Bosnian war, which took 100,000 lives. He was trained, paid, equipped and given orders from Serbia during a conflict that drove more than one million people, most of them non-Serbs, from their homes in a bid to establish Serb-only territory. He was commander of Bosnian Serb troops and militia fighters during the 44-month siege of Sarajevo and the mass killings of about 8,000 captive men and boys at Srebrenica.

The angry court room exchanges between Mr. Mladic and his judges revolved mainly around the lawyers, which Mr. Mladic said he wanted and court managers said had not yet been vetted by the court.

“Mladic submitted a list of seven potential names just nine days ago,” said Nerma Jelacic, the court spokeswoman. “In the short time we had, we arranged meetings with six of the seven. When Mladic submits the final names, the court has to decide if they fulfill the requirements.”

In court on Monday, Mr. Mladic presented a different version. He said he would not enter a plea until his two lawyers, one from Serbia and one from Russia, were by his side. But his Russian lawyer had not yet come to The Hague, court officials said, and Milos Saljic, the Serbian lawyer, told The Associated Press that he did not qualify to represent Mr. Mladic at the United Nations tribunal because he did not speak English.

Judge Orie, who is from The Netherlands, repeatedly tried to persuade Mr. Mladic that legal representation was not up to the judges, but Mr. Mladic got increasingly impatient, kept disrupting the proceedings and ignored the judge’s warnings to stop gesturing to the public gallery.

As the judge began to read out the criminal charges, Mr. Mladic pulled off his earphones, shouting: “No, no, I’m not going to listen, you’re talking in vain.” And as security guards were ordered to escort him out of court, Mr. Mladic turned and shouted: “You are not a court! Who are you? You are not allowing me to breathe.”

With Mr. Mladic’s chair now empty, Judge Orie entered pleas of not guilty on all 11 charges on Mr. Mladic’s behalf, in keeping with the court’s rules for accused people who refuse to plead.

He set no date for the next hearing.

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Chávez Says a Cancerous Tumor Was Removed

 

Mr. Chávez, who appeared to have lost weight, delivered his remarks after rumors had swirled about his health. Senior officials in his political movement had denied news reports that he had received a diagnosis of some type of cancer. Officially, the government had said that Mr. Chávez underwent emergency surgery in Havana on June 10 for a pelvic abscess, a collection of pus deep inside the abdomen.

Mr. Chávez, 56, said Thursday night that the procedure for the abscess had in fact occurred, but that doctors had also carried out testing that detected cancerous cells. He said he had undergone a second operation to remove a cancerous tumor. He said he was receiving further treatment in Cuba, and that he would “continue battling.”

“This has been a slow and careful process of diagnosis, of advances and discoveries at various stages,” Mr. Chávez said. “They confirmed the existence of a tumorous abscess, with the presence of cancerous cells, which required a second operation to completely extract the said tumor.”

He provided few other details, including what type of cancer was detected or where the tumor was located.

Mr. Chávez’s acknowledgement raised new doubts in Venezuela. His political opponents have already contended that it was unconstitutional for him to continue governing from abroad.

Mr. Chávez did not say when he might return home, although he lauded his hosts in Cuba, Venezuela’s top ally, saying he felt fortunate to be in the “greater fatherland.”?

He had already endured several other ailments this year, which had led him to reduce his appearances and foreign travel. His health problems were reported to include two severe colds and a knee injury that required him to use crutches.

The first prolonged absence of Mr. Chávez from daily political life in Venezuela in his 12 years in power has focused attention on how much the government here revolves around his strong personality and whims.

After the broadcast of Mr. Chávez’s address, Vice President Elías Jaua also addressed the nation somberly, flanked by the chief of the armed forces, the oil minister and other officials. Mr. Jaua and other civilian cabinet ministers were dressed in suits and ties, in contrast to their usual casual style.

“It is not time for sadness,” Mr. Jaua said. “Chávez’s orientation is to continue advancing in the transformations of a socialist society.”

Problems have mounted here while Mr. Chávez undergoes treatment in Cuba. More than 20 people were killed in a prison uprising. Blackouts in this energy-rich nation have plagued cities in the interior. While Mr. Chávez receives care in Havana, doctors at state hospitals in Venezuela went on strike on Thursday to demand better salaries.

Still, much of the nation has been focused on Mr. Chávez’s absence and his health problems. The reinvigorated political opposition has said it would continue focusing on a presidential election next year, when it hopes to unseat him.

“The democratic alternative needs to be shown as the tranquilizing force of change,” Jesús Torrealba, an independent journalist who covers issues in Venezuela’s slums, said in a Twitter message sent after Mr. Chávez’s address.

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