President Kraya reacts to the Swedish Academy: Milosevic's Supporter Rewarded With Nobel

The Kosovo Academy of Sciences and Arts has reacted to the division of the “Nobel” award for Peter Handke.

A The SHAK in response stresses that Handke was a passionate supporter of Milosevic and killing peoples.

Deeply indignant, we received the ugly news that Nobel Literature Prize laureates for 2019 is writer Peter Handke, a prominent exhibition of fascist ideas of the submission and captivity of peoples and passionate supporter of Milosevic and his genocide wars in the Balkans, including Kosovo. As the academy of a newly established state on Western values of the freedom of peoples and the institution that itself has suffered the prosecution and the apartheid of a hated regime and its extermination, we have not believed that so soon we will face the loss of memory and moral amnesty of those who so passionately support a killer of peoples, as did your laureate Peter Handke. Deep disagreement with the political commitments and public statements of Handkes, along with the inexorable support of the entire progressive world, including Sweden, led our people today to recognise freedom and dignified life - writes in response.

The Academy of Sciences further in response says Handke had found refuge on the dark side of history.

“Peter Handke was not on the right side of the history of the peoples of the Balkans or Kosovo; it was not on the bright side of ideas, but found refuge on the dark side of the Balkan tragic events. As rarely anyone else, he attended Milosevic's funeral and declared: “does not know the truth. But I see. I feel. I remember. So I'm here today, near Yugoslavia, near Serbia and near Slobodan Milosevich.” Earlier, in May 1999, he was declared against NATO bombings, saying the Atlantic Alliance is not preventing the new Auschwitz, but is creating it. He attacked indiscriminately all those who supported NATO intervention in Kosovo, whether prominent politicians or scholars worldwide. Today so many graveless victims still trouble the Balkans, which require rest and justice “.