SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Nobel Literature Prize laureate Peter Handke was on Wednesday proclaimed persona non-grata in the Bosnian capital and in Kosovo for his apologist views toward Serb war crimes during the wars in the 1990s. Sarajevo's regional parliament also denounced the Swedish Academy for giving the award to the Austrian novelist and screenplay writer. Several rulings by international war crime courts have proclaimed the massacre in the eastern Bosnian enclave a genocide. Kosovo followed suit Wednesday by declaring Handke unwelcome in the former Serbian province. Kosovo acting Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli said on Twitter that he made the decision because of the support Handke "gave to Milosevic and his genocidal policies'' in Kosovo and Bosnia.

Source: International New York Times December 11, 2019 13:02 UTC