Former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic pleaded not guilty Wednesday to war crimes and crimes against humanity at his second initial appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
"Not guilty, your honour," Hadzic told judge Guy Delvoie when asked to plead to the charges including the murder of civilians taken from a hospital during Croatia's 1992-95 war. He declined to enter a plea during his first initial appearance last month.
Hadzic, 52, was the last of the court's 161 wanted suspects until his arrest last month in northern Serbia after evading capture for seven years.
The former leader of the self-proclaimed Serb Republic of Krajina during the early 1990s is charged with 14 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The indictment alleges he played a key role in the massacre by Croatian Serb troops of some 260 Croats and other non-Serbs taken from a hospital in Vukovar, eastern Croatia, after it fell to Serb troops in November 1991 following a three-month siege.
Hadzic's arrest came two months after Serbian authorities finally captured wartime Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic, the court's most wanted man.
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