Former Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic refused to enter a plea Friday on war crimes and genocide charges, leading the judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to enter a plea of "not guilty" on his behalf.
It was only the second time that Karadzic had appeared in the court at The Hague, Netherlands, since his arrest in July. Karadzic, wearing a dark suit and brown patterned tie, his shock of white hair unruly, waived his right to legal counsel before the judge asked him to enter a plea on each of the 11 counts of the indictment against him.
After Karadzic refused to enter a plea on Count 1, Judge Ian Bonomy asked him whether he would do the same on each of the remaining 10 counts. Karadzic said: "Absolutely."
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