Representatives of the Association of Citizens "Eastern Alternative" from Bosnia's Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) entity submitted a proposal to the Municipal Assembly of Srebrenica to rename the Marshal Tito Street after the controversial Nobel Prize winner, writer Peter Handke.

The head of this association, Vojin Pavlovic, told Srna news agency that it was “absurd that the Marshal Tito Street exists only in Srebrenica.”

Austrian Peter Handke is known for supporting the regime of Slobodan Milosevic and denying the Srebrenica genocide. Because of him, protests were organized in Stockholm when he received the Nobel Prize, and the Canton of Sarajevo and Kosovo declared him persona non grata.

Handke visited this entity on May 7 when the authorities presented him with the award previously given to convicted war criminals.