His appearance is scheduled for 1600 CEST (1400 GMT) today.Click here to watch it LIVE).
Judge Alphons Orie will officially inform Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic of the 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity on the indictment, and give him an opportunity to plead.
Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic's lawyer, Svetozar Vujacic, has said his client will postpone entering a formal plea for 30 days, the maximum allowed under court rules.
In the dock of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), for the first time, Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic will also be given an opportunity to address the judge on such issues as his detention conditions and arrest.
Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic, 63, was arrested on July 21, thirteen years after the tribunal first indicted him for genocide and other war crimes,committed during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.
Since his arrest he has been shorn of the flowing beard and the long hair that helped disguise him as "an alternative healer" in the years following the Serbian aggression against Bosnia. He was flown to the Netherlands yesterday morning.
The Face Of Evil - Unmasked: Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic without the long hair and heavy beard he used for 13 years to hide from justice,pictured in custody earlier this week.He has been charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with genocide, extermination, murder, deportation, inhumane acts, and other crimes against Bosnian civilians,committed during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.
Speaking to reporters, prosecutor Serge Brammertz conceded the case would not be easy but said his team would draw on evidence already presented in other cases since Karadzic's original 1995 indictment. They are expected to update the indictment before the trial begins.
"We will ensure that it reflects the current case law, facts already established by the court and evidence collected over the past eight years," he said.
It will take months for both sides to prepare for the trial, he said.
Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic is accused of orchestrating the 1995 mass murder of up to 10,000 Bosnian civilians in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the deadly 44-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and numerous other genocidal campaigns,during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.He faces life imprisonment if found guilty.
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