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SARAJEVO, October 11 (FENA) – The Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center, on behalf of survivors of genocide, condemned the decision of the Literature Committee of the Swedish Academy of Sciences to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to Peter Handke.
Regardless of the quality criteria of Peter Handke's work as a writer, the Center stated they feel obliged to warn victims of Slobodan Milošević regime, not only in Srebrenica, but throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, that this year's Nobel Prize winner in the 1990s supported the Milošević regime, openly denying genocide and crimes against humanity committed from Prijedor, Sarajevo to Višegrad and Srebrenica.
They state that the fact that Milošević’s apologist and sympathizer is awarded with the greatest recognition in the world for literature, and that the award also includes works celebrating the politics of genocide, is an insult to the victims of genocide, but also to families who are still searching for their loved ones. Awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to an author who claimed that Sarajevo citizens had staged their own massacres in Sarajevo and openly denied genocide committed in Srebrenica and the municipalities around Srebrenica is an insult to humanity.
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