Kosovo poet living in Sweden against the Handken Prize: I'm ashamed

Kosovo poet living in Sweden against the Handken Prize: I'm ashamed

The award awarding for an Austrian writer Peter Handken has prompted a major controversy and public outrage over his support for Slobodan Milosevic's regime during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and protests were organised on the occasion of this award. Several states boycotted this ceremony just in support of Kosovo, while in the Swedish centre [...]

Several states boycotted this ceremony just in support of Kosovo, while protests took place at the Swedish centre, where the flag was red and black, were focused.

In addition, Swedish doctor Christina Doctare takes back the Nobel Prize won in 1988 because of Handkes.

While Kosovo poet Oek from Gjakova and living in Sweden has given a powerful speech against the Swedish academy's decision to honour genocide apologist Peter Handke with Nobel

This is his speech:

My name is Albanian Oek, I'm a poet and I come from the Swedish-Albanian Network. I'm not alone, I'm with Kosovo's ambassador, Albania's ambassador, the ambassadors of Bosnia, Croatia, Turkey, who refused to eat bread and shame tonight. They chose to be with us tonight, so we say thank you. And thanks to the organizers of this meeting, who enabled us to stand up for our truth, our dead and our living.

I come from Gjakova, a town on the Albanian border that enjoyed its Bosnia in 1999. The streets of my city were like the ones in Bosnia. Men and women killed, rapes, children and old men slaughtered.

But I don't want to be just Albanian here tonight. Tonight I want to be a Bosnian. I want to be from Sarajevo. I want to be from Srebrenica. Tuzla. From Foca. Jace. By Bijeljina. From Gorazde. Tonight, I want to be from every leg of that Bosnia's blood-crushing criminal who justifies Peter Handke.

Tonight I'm also Swedish, why I'm a Swedish citizen for decades. I'm here with my daughter who was born in Sweden. And as Swedish, I mean what the Swedish Academy had to say tonight, as if it wasn't overwhelmed by moral relativism. I mean, I'm ashamed. And I want to tell you all to forgive us.

 

 

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