The chief prosecutor at the Yugoslav tribunal in The Hague wants the charges against former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic split into two separate processes, reports the Volkskrant.

Serge Brammertz says this would make things quicker and, bearing in mind Mladic’s age and state of health, it would better serve the cause of justice and the victims of the Bosnian war (1992-1995).
Brammertz wants to try Mladic for genocide in Srebrenica first. This charge includes the massacre of up to 8,000 men and boys in the Muslim enclave there. It is the most serious charge against Mladic.
The former general would then be tried for war crimes during the seige of Sarajevo which was occupied by Mladic’s soldiers for three and a half years.
In splitting the charges into two cases, Brammertz would avoid the situation when former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic faced the tribunal, says the Volkskrant. The case against Milosevic was so complicated and took so long, he died before it ended.