The last stage of genocide is genocide denial. On the 25th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, let us not forget the evil of the @NobelPrize organization, which awarded Peter Handke, a genocide denier, its Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.

Handke has written books and plays that downplay or deny the genocide in Bosnia. He delivered a eulogy at the funeral of Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic, who oversaw the genocide and a wave of other war crimes in Bosnia. Yet Handke was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The @NobelPrize organization is complicit w/ the Swedish Academy, which is delegated with the power to select the literary winner. The Academy is a scandal-ridden group that avoided true accountability for a wave of sexual harassment that emerged in 2017. http://ahlanderagency.com/books/the-club/ 

How or why did the @NobelPrize organization and the Swedish Academy give the award to a denier of genocide? The Bosnian-American writer @SashaHemon got to the Islamophobic heart of it -- "a page of Mr. Handke is worth a thousand Muslim lives" to them. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/peter-handke-nobel-bosnia-genocide.html

Islamophobia was not a bug but a feature of Handke's award -- the @NobelPrize organization and the Swedish Academy were representing and channeling the racism that is fundamental to western elites. More here from Hemon: https://twitter.com/SashaHemon/status/1197983927975190532

The Swedish Academy is not on Twitter and does not care what the world thinks of it. It's a wealthy and insulated institution that's beyond shame, even from the Swedish nation. But the @NobelPrize organization is different -- it is much more public-facing.

Today, the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, would be a good day for the @NobelPrize organization to acknowledge the facts of history and apologize for giving its literary prize to Peter Handke, who denies the genocide. It's time for @NobelPrize to stop harming people.

I'm not sure how much more I'll have time to say on this subject today but please please pay attention to the genocide victims, survivors, and relatives. One of the promising things that has emerged recently is the new generation of voices from the former Yugoslavia.

Everyone involved with @SrebrenicaMC and @SrebrenicaUK is fantastic. Read what @suljagicemir1 writes, read what @edinabecirevic writes, read what @_edinh writes, read what @sasa_s writes, read what @suboticjelena writes, read what @Sel_van_Jay writes, read @hikmet_karcic ...

The list goes on and on. Read what @JasminMuj writes, read what @SashaHemon writes, read what @SniperAlleyPhot writes, read what @adnanmahmutovic writes, read what @___adn writes, read what @hozic writes, read what @jana_bacevic writes. On and on it goes, these great voices.

A gift to our civilization is this series of essays on "Yugosplaining the World." If you want a reason to not be depressed about the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, or about the state of things in America and elsewhere, dip into these essays. https://thedisorderofthings.com/2020/07/02/yugosplaining-the-world-%e2%80%af/

The genocide of 25 years ago gave tragic birth to a generation of voices who for decades ahead will shape our ideas about what happened in Bosnia *and* about violence and justice in the world. The world did not try to save Srebrenica, yet Srebrenica will try to save the world.