Bosnian genocide victims were disturbed by the Swedish Academy's decision to award the Nobel prize to Peter Handke, the man who supported the war-time policy of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and his successors Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide and other war crimes by the international court, Bosniak Presidency member Sefik Dzaferovic said, Tuesday, at the TRT World Forum 2019 in Istanbul.

My country still faces the grave consequences of these crimes. More than a hundred thousand people were killed. Millions of people were expelled. The war trauma and scarring have still not healed. Due to divisions and obstructions that are the result of these criminal policies, Bosnia and Herzegovina was prevented from making faster progress,” Dzaferovic said.

He asked what happened with the part of the international public who allowed the Nobel prize to be awarded to Karadzic, Mladic and Milosevic's promoters and sympathisers.

“We live in a global society. Sweden, the homeland of the Nobel Committee may be far away from Bosnia but it's near Norway where a horrific massacre took place, inspired by criminals convicted of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Bosniak Presidency member noted.

He recalled the terrorist attacks in Utoya and Oslo where Andreas Breivik killed 77 innocent victims, adding that on the day of the terrorist attack, Breivik published a manifesto in which he designated Islam and Feminism and his enemies and said that Karadzic was his role model.