mr. mladic, have you gone through mr. mladic with the indictment? >> absolutely, justice. >> did you at any moment gain the impression that he did not understand what the indictment was about? >> no, your honor. >> translator: not a single moment did i have that impression, your honor. >> mr. mladic, we'll proceed on the basis and you'll have further time to further study the indictment if you need the time. we'll come to that at a later stage. mr. mladic, you have the right to have that indictment to be read to you now today in court before 37 pages. but you also may wave that right so we will not read the whole of the indictment. do you want to exercise the right to have it read in full? >> translator: i do not want to have a single letter or sentence of that indictment read out to me. >> well, that's another matter. i do understand that even in stronger words you wave your right the indictment to be read out to you. nevertheless, this is put on the record that you wave this right. but nevertheless summarize the indictment briefly, both for you, b

mr. mladic, please.ix up your defense, what you are charged, what you may have done in the past and the way in which you are treated at this very moment. and that's what i asked you about. if you have any complaints about your treatment in detention, please consult with counsel and counsel, of course, you would refer mr. mladic to the regulations for the establishment of a complaints procedure for detainees. i think mr. mladic has already received a copy of the documentation in relation to that. mr. mladic, any other matter you would like to raise in the context that is not your defense and what happened in the past, but the present situation for detention. any other matter to be raise in that respect? >> translator: if you want the proceedings to proceed as they should -- and i don't know how long that's going to be going on for, it's only known by the man up there -- i just have to say that i want to live to see that i am a free man. such as i am, i am defending my country and my people and not ratko m

mr. blatter today should be postponed. >> 16 years after he was first indicted, europe's most wanted man, ratko mladic, is in solitary confinementue. earlier serbian judges rejected general mladic's appeal he was too sick to face the tribunal. after that all it took was a signature from serbia's justice minister for mladic to be on his way. we now have a report from the hague from matthew price. >> it was a day of goodbyes for the man accused of genocide. this morning in belgrade under heavy security, ratko mladic was taken to the grave of his daughter. she killed herself with her father's gun, so upset she's rumored to have been at his role in the yugoslav wars. later, his son and wife came to bid farewell. a right his victims were never afforded. as commander of the bosnian serb forces, ratko mladic is accused of using murder, rape, torture, deportation as tools of war to clear parts of bosnia of all nonserbs. and almost two decades later, in a convoy to the airport, he was driven to face justice. away from his beloved serbia into the netherlands, and finally on to the u.n. detention center. in the end, this was a very short a