In the exclusive interview, parts of which were also published in the daily "Der Standard", Handke accented that, through the bombing of FR Yugoslavia, a whole generation of politicians, that had once protested against war, has shown its true face.

"That Spaniard, whose name I do not want to pronounce, uses, as an excuse for this war, that he cannot be a bad man, because he participated in the 1968 protests. All those who have caused this war belong to the generation that once sang 'Make love, not war'", reminded Handke.

The Austrian writer also condemned the sensationalist, crooked and anti-Serbian reporting of the Western media and journalists, who have placed themselves in the service of the propaganda machinery of the Western countries.

Handke also stated that all "anti-Serbs are, in a way, the same evil and insufferable as the anti-Semites once".

In the interview for the Vienna weekly, he expressed understanding for the policy of Yugoslavian authorities in Kosovo and Metohija.

"Slobodan Milosevic is the elected President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and he is obliged to defend his country", Handke said accenting that he never met the Yugoslav President in person.

"Anyone in his shoes in the past ten years would be forced to the same policy", the Austrian writer judged.

Handke said that the Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija are not satisfied with autonomy, but the "they want their own independent state".

However, he also expressed doubt in the righteousness of the report on the refugees from Kosovo and Metohija, adding that it is very suspicious that all the refugees getting out of Kosovo and Metohija tell, practically from word to word, the same story.

"Is that the reason to believe them?" he asked stating that it should perhaps be the reason not to believe their statements.

Handke also estimated that a general panic is on in Kosovo and Metohija, so that that too - along with the ceaseless bombing - is one of the reasons for the masses of refugees.

"One older Serbian monk from Kosovo and Metohija told me that, as soon as the bombing started, started also the shooting at Serbian houses, because the Albanians figured they ought to support the NATO as a sort of ground forces. That was when the police was forced to act".

The Austrian writer accented that the police and the army have to fight against terrorist organizations.

He pointed out that a person shooting an officer in, let's say, Kentucky would surely get a death penalty and that the West never reported on the numerous killings of policemen in Kosovo and Metohija.

The provocation of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the methods preceding the NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia remind Handke of Hitler's methods with which World War II was started.

In the end, he accented that the Serbs were once and still are the least nationalist oriented people in the Balkans.