Yugoslav War crimes court to arraign Mladic on Friday

Judges of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have scheduled Ratko Mladic’s arraignment for Friday, Mladic was earlier extradited from Serbia to the U.N. court. Dutch Judge Alphons Orie signed the order for arraignment on Wednesday, after the former Bosnian Serb military chief spent his first night in an isolation cell. At the hearing which is scheduled for Friday, Mladic will be asked to enter pleas to 11 charges, including genocide, for allegedly masterminding Bosnian Serb atrocities throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

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