As a corollary to this OP, the Nobel committee has awarded a Nobel prize in literature to a vile apologist for genocide and ethnic cleansing, Peter Handke's.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/10/troubling-choice-authors-c...

" In 1999, Salman Rushdie named him the runner-up for “International moron of the year” in the Guardian, for his “series of impassioned apologias for the genocidal regime of Slobodan Milošević”. (The winner was actor Charlton Heston, for being a gun lobbyist.)

The Austrian playwright, whose Slovenian heritage had inspired in him a fervent nationalism during the Balkans war, had publicly suggested that Sarajevo’s Muslims had massacred themselves and blamed the Serbs, and denied the Srebrenica genocide. Seven years after Rushdie’s scorching condemnation, in 2006, he would also attend war criminal Milošević’s funeral."

Oh dear