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STOCKHOLM/SARAJEVO, December 10 (FENA) - Protests over the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Austrian writer Peter Handke are being held at one of Stockholm's main city squares.
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Peter Handke in the Swedish capital on Tuesday evening. The award was presented by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
Handke is known for his controversial views, including denying the Srebrenica genocide and calling for the defense of Slobodan Milošević, the former president of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and The Hague Tribunal war crimes indictee.
More than 500 participants gathered at the protests, including members of the association of Mothers of Srebrenica and Žepa Enclaves, N1 reports.
They were joined by numerous Bosnians living in this Scandinavian country, politicians as well as foreign journalists reporting in the wartime period from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(FENA) S. R.
