PARIS, Dec. 12 - Ante Gotovina, a former general from Croatia, appeared Monday before the war crimes tribunal in The Hague and listened impassively to a list of international crimes lodged against him for his role during military operations against Serbian forces and civilians in 1995.

It was his first appearance at the tribunal, where prosecutors had campaigned for his arrest for more than four years. During the hearing, he pleaded "not guilty" to all seven counts against him. He was arrested last Wednesday.

Mr. Gotovina, once a fighter in the French Foreign Legion and now viewed at home as a hero of Croatia's war of independence, remained polite and distant during the 90-minute proceeding, which could be watched via video transmission from the court.

When the United Nations judge asked him if he wanted to present any issues about the proceedings or about his prison conditions, he replied briefly: "No, I do not have anything to raise. Everything is fine. Thank you very much."

His hands folded, his broad jaw set tight, Mr. Gotovina, 50, was flanked by two guards. He sat behind a lawyer assigned by the court. Mr. Gotovina is said to have been supported by wealthy benefactors while he was on the run, traveling in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and he is expected to gather his own defense team from Croatia.

The arraignment set the scene for what is expected to become a joint trial of three senior Croatian commanders. The other two are Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac, who surrendered to the tribunal in March 2004. All three are charged with crimes committed by troops under their command during a 1995 offensive in the Krajina region of Croatia.

In the four-day military assault, the Croatian Army recaptured territory held by rebel Serbs.The operation continued for weeks against civilian ethnic Serbs who lived in the region, which the indictment says, included burning and pilfering of tens of thousands of homes in hundreds of villages and the killing of at least 150 civilians. The campaign was devised to drive more than 150,000 people, most of them ethnic Serbs, permanently from their ancestral homelands, the indictment said.

Mr. Gotovina had told his lawyer he would waive his right to have the indictment read out in court and frowned when Carmel Agius of Malta, the United Nations judge, ordered a court officer to read the entire text. He seemed uncomfortable as a long list of atrocities against civilians was read. The judge then proceeded to read out the names of victims. Mr. Gotovina was charged with persecution, murder, plunder, wanton destruction of towns, deportation and other inhumane acts.

He was arrested Dec. 7 on the Canary Islands and spent his first weekend in jail in The Hague. Also imprisoned there is Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Serbia, whose forces Mr. Gotovina fought.