The trial of Serbian General Ratko Mladic began on Friday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on charges including genocide and crimes against humanity.
Mladic walked into the courtroom flanked by two guards, wearing a grey suit, shirt and tie.
Mladic confirmed that he could understand the proceedings via the translation and had no objections to the hearing proceeding.
He said he had not seen the indictment and would need at least three months to read it.
Mladic was arrested last week in the Serbian village of Lazarevo, 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Belgrade, after 16 years on the run. He was extradited to The Hague on Tuesday to face trial on charges of committing war crimes and genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian War.
He is believed to have ordered the killing of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, Europe's worst single atrocity since World War II.
MOSCOW, June 3 (RIA Novosti)
