Court rules out one Karadzic charge An international court in The Hague ruled that the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic could proceed on 10 of the 11 counts against him, but upheld his request to dismiss one count of genocide. The ruling was an unexpected setback for prosecutors, who have already won several convictions on genocide charges over the 1995 massacres in the town of Srebrenica but have yet to prove genocide with regard to the "ethnic cleansing" carried out in other municipalities during the Bosnian civil war. But it left in place the main counts against Mr Karadzic, including a genocide charge for Srebrenica and charges of murder and other war crimes. Mr Karadzic could face life in prison if convicted by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. The trial has been under way for three years. The court ruled that prosecutors had not presented sufficient evidence to charge Mr Karadzic with genocide for having overseen the killing and forced expulsion of ethnic Muslims and Croats from municipalities claimed by Bosnian Serbs, including the town of Prijedor. The ruling is likely to provoke angry reactions in Prijedor, where Muslims have called for recognition that the "ethnic cleansing" practised against them was genocide. The ruling is unlikely to affect the ongoing war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, whose charges include responsibility for the genocide at Srebrenice.