Demonstrators braved freezing temperatures on Tuesday to protest against the awa...
STOCKHOLM - Demonstrators braved freezing temperatures on Tuesday to protest against the awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke because of his support for the late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
Handke and the Nobel laureates in chemistry, medicine, physics and economics received their prizes from the Swedish king in a lavish ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall on Tuesday evening. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded separately earlier on Tuesday in Oslo to Ethiopia’s prime minister. As dignitaries arrived in limousines, about a dozen protesters waved placards with slogans such as “No Nobel for Fake News”, a reference to comments by Handke questioning the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995.“The problem with Handke is his refusal to admit genocide on the Bosnian population in the 1990s,” said Adnan Mahmutović, one of the organizers of Tuesday’s demonstration in Stockholm.
The ambassadors of Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Turkey said they would boycott Tuesday’s ceremony.“Today is a shameful day... It shows that Europe has an amnesia of what happened to us in Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia,” Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli wrote on Twitter.
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