(CNN) -- A notorious Bosnian Serb general accused of trying to eliminate Bosnian Muslims and Croats from their shared country could face two separate trials in the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Prosecutors want to try Ratko Mladic first for his alleged crimes in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in 1995, according to a statement from the tribunal Tuesday. Then, prosecutors want to try him for allegedly spreading terror throughout the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1995, and for taking U.N. personnel hostage, the statement says. In both cases, Mladic faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war, the statement says.
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Former Bosnia Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic could have a war crimes indictment split in two
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One indictment would focus on the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
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The other indictment would focus on the shelling of Sarajevo and taking U.N. staff hostage
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Prosecutors want to begin the trial as soon as possible; Mladic says he is "gravely ill"
When Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s, Mladic led Bosnia Serb forces in the civil war that broke out in the part of Yugoslavia that became @placeholder.