The wartime Bosnian Serb commander, Ratko Mladic, put on a show of belligerence at the U.N. war crimes tribunal Monday, shouting and even taunting his judges, but he lost the test of wills when the presiding judge expelled him from the court.

“Don’t read it to me, not a single word,” Mladic had said to Judge Alphons Orie, as the judge prepared to read out a long list of criminal charges.

It was the second court appearance in The Hague for Mladic, who was captured in May after nearly 16 years on the run. The charges he faces include genocide, persecution, deportation and other atrocities of the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

— From wire reports