Peter Handke (Beta/Nenad Petrovic)
The Austrian winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, Peter Handke, was declared a persona non grata by the Canton of Sarajevo. The decision, which had been initiated by the Party of Democratic Action MPs, was supported unanimously at a session of the Canton's assembly.
A declaration issued for that purpose condemns a Nobel Prize that would "deny that a genocide was committed in Srebrenica."
The document went on to say that "denying a genocide is the final phase of it," concluding that "the Nobel laureate in literature used his addresses during the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina to provide public support to a regime promoting a Greater Serbia, led by a war criminal, Slobodan Milosevic."
The MPs also said in the declaration that Handke "never changed his views, and has just made a step further, promising to visit our country and mothers in Kravica and the villages around Srebrenica."
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