(ANSA-AP) - SARAJEVO - Several dozen survivors of Bosnia's
1992-95 war have protested in Sarajevo, urging the Nobel
Committee to reverse its decision to award the 2019 Nobel Prize
in literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke. Protesters
gathered outside the Swedish embassy in downtown Sarajevo on
Tuesday carrying banners with slogans comparing Handke with
Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic and Bosnian Serb war-time
leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. All three former Serb
leaders were tried for genocide before a U.N. war crimes
tribunal. Milosevic died in 2006 before the end of his trial,
while Karadzic and Mladic were convicted and imprisoned for
life. The 76-year-old author has long faced criticism for his
vigorous defense of the Serbs during the 1990s wars that
devastated the Balkans as Yugoslavia disintegrated. He even
spoke at Milosevic's 2006 funeral, calling him "a rather tragic
man." (ANSA-AP).
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