(31 May 2011)
1. Aeroplane carrying Ratko Mladic landing at Rotterdam airport
2. Cutaway of police officer and car at side of airstrip
3. Plane taxiing on runway
4. Various of plane taxiing past airport terminal
5. Wide of plane outside hangar
6. Medium of plane entering hangar
7. Wide of plane in hangar
8. Medium of hangar doors closing
9. Close-up of sign above terminal reading (English) "Rotterdam The Hague Airport"
10. Police helicopter flying out of hangar
11. Wide of two police helicopters flying into distance
12. Police convoy leaving airfield en route to The Hague
13. Cutaway of police officers and vehicle parked on road
14. Police convoy en route to The Hague
The Hague - 31 May 2011
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15. Various of convoy of police vehicles pulling into compound of UN detention unit
The Hague - 31 May 2011
16. Wide exterior of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
17. Close-up of ICTY sign
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Nerma Jelacic, ICTY spokesperson:
"I can confirm that Ratko Mladic is now in the custody of the ICTY. He was met at the airport by the officials of the tribunal and the security agencies of the Netherlands. He has been transferred now to the detention unit where he will be situated during the trial. After almost 16 years of being on the run he is finally where we have wanted to see him for quite a while."
19. Close-up of ICTY sign
20. Wide exterior of ICTY
STORYLINE:
Ratko Mladic was waking up in an isolation cell in the Netherlands on Wednesday, less than a week after he was captured after 16 years on the run.
Former Bosnian Serb military commander Mladic is facing genocide charges -16 years after he was indicted in the killing of 8-thousand Muslim men and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II.
On Tuesday, a Serbian government jet carrying Mladic landed at Rotterdam airport in the Netherlands.
The plane touched down hours after judges in Belgrade rejected his appeal to delay his extradition on grounds of ill health.
A helicopter-escorted convoy of police vehicles with flashing blue lights pulled into the compound of the UN detention unit outside The Hague shortly after leaving Rotterdam airport.
Nerma Jelacic, a spokesperson for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, confirmed that Mladic was in the custody of the tribunal.
She said he was met at Rotterdam airport by officials of the tribunal and the security agencies of the Netherlands, and had been transferred to the detention unit where he will be situated during the trial.
"After almost 16 years of being on the run he is finally where we have wanted to see him for quite a while," she said.
It was, she added, "a big milestone for the tribunal".
Jelacic said Mladic's initial appearance will come within couple of days of his arrival at the tribunal.
She said a copy of the indictment will be given to him and that he will also undergo medical examination.
Mladic will be put into an isolated cell for the first few days of his inhabitancy of the detention unit, she said, and only after that will he be introduced to one of the wings where the other detainees are.
Jelacic said it was too early to say how long the trial would last.
The Serbian justice minister authorised Mladic's handover to UN officials in The Hague.
Mladic's defence had argued that the 69-year-old was not mentally and physically fit to stand trial.
Mladic is charged at the tribunal for atrocities committed by his Serb troops during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
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