Mladic slams UN tribunal as 'satanic court' as he appears as defense witness for Karadzic
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Former Bosnian Serb army commander Gen. Ratko Mladic has slammed the United Nations' Yugoslav war crimes tribunal as a "satanic court" at the start of his testimony as a defense witness for his former political master, Radovan Karadzic.
In a historic courtroom reunion of the two alleged chief architects of Serb atrocities during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Mladic was testifying under subpoena Tuesday for Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb president.
Both men are on trial separately for crimes including genocide. They both insist they are innocent.
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Mladic initially refused to testify, telling Presiding Judge O-gon Kwon, "Your subpoenas, your platitudes, your false indictments, I do not care one bit about any of it."
Kwon then briefly adjourned the trial so Mladic's dentures could be retrieved from his cell.