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Mladic accuses UN war crimes tribunal of being biased
Former Bosnian Serb forces commander General Ratko Mladic has accused the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of being biased against him.
Former Bosnian Serb Commander General Ratko Mladic has accused the UN war tribunals of being "a biasted Nato court"
The 69-year-old defendant faces 11 war crime charges, including two genocide counts after being on the run for 16 years. He denies all charges against him.
Mladic is charged with genocide at Srebrenica, where 7,500 Muslim men and boys were killed in July 1995.
He also faces charges over the 43-month siege of Sarajevo, from May 1992 to November 1995.
Speaking at a pre-trial hearing in The Hague, Mladic said the tribunal was a "biased Nato court".
"You are judging in the name of Nato and you are trying me and my people and you have no right to do that, because Nato bombed my people," he said.
Mladic's trial is due to start on 14 May, having been delayed after his lawyers argued they needed more time to go through the evidence.
Last December, the tribunal reduced the number of charges against the general because of fears about his health after he was admitted to hospital in October suffering from pneumonia.
In 2006, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died in custody at the tribunal in The Hague.
