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Džaferović:Nobel Committee completely lost its moral compass by awarding Handke

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, October 10 (FENA) - BiH Presidency Member Šefik Džaferović considers the decision of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Committee scandalous and shameful to award the Nobel Prize for literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke, who in 1992-1995 justified war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina and stood up for the protection of their perpetrators.

“It is shameful that the Nobel Committee has easily gone beyond the fact that Handke justified and stood for the protection of Slobodan Milošević’s regime and his perpetrators Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, who were convicted of war crimes including genocide before the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,” Džaferović said.

He pointed out that years after the war ended, Handke showed no remorse or apology to victims of genocide, rape, camps and other atrocities, and to this day denies the truth about the Srebrenica genocide and claims that the citizens of Sarajevo staged massacres during the siege.

“Awarding Nobel Prize to such person is an act of directly legitimizing his timeless intellectual and political engagement, which is not worthy of any institution that promotes civilizational values, therefore not the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. With this shameful decision, the Committee has completely lost its moral compass,” said the Office of BiH Presidency Member Šefik Džaferović.

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