- He does not deny Srebrenica, he does not deny the genocide. He uses that word in an essay from 2011, that was after the Hague Tribunal. He used the evil before, then it was not usual to use the word genocide, then it was used only about the Holocaust, at least in the German-speaking world.
So did the Nobel Committee Chairman Anders Olsson to the Culture News on Thursday. Now, Svenska Dagbladet writes that Peter Handke, the Nobel laureate in literature in 2019, in the same year expressed contempt for "Srebrenica's mothers" and questioned how many people died in the genocide.
"Revenge, not genocide"In the magazine Kättarbrev, Handke questions whether 8000 people actually died during the Srebrenica massacre. He also says he doesn't "believe a word" on what the Sreberenica mothers' organization, which represents the survivors, says. "Had I been a mother, I would have grieved alone," he says, saying that Sreberenica's mothers are just a "cheap imitation" of the Argentine organization Madres de la Plaza de mayo.
Svenska Dagbladet also refers to a statement Handke made in Norwegian DN Magazine 2014.
"It was revenge, not genocide, as the war crimes court claims," he said.
The cultural news is looking for the Swedish Academy.