For the past four years, the Serbian artist, Vladimir Miladinovic, has started his day with a coffee and the diary of one of the cruelest criminals of the Balkan War, Ratko Mladic.

He copied every word of the 400-pages-notebook, which can be seen today at an exhibition in Belgrade, raising the question of how the country is facing with one of its darkest chapters.

“I have examined every word and every sentence on these 400 pages, trying to deal with this harsh material of the past, which we are forced 25 years after the war,” said Vladimir Miladinovic, a Serbian artist.

The former commander of the Bosnian Serb troops that carried out the Srebrenica massacre was sentenced to life in prison by the International Court of Justice, in Hague, 2017.

The trial against him is expected to begin on August 25, while many Serbs still consider him a hero. They do not trust the international courts and consider the trial against him to be one-sided.