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October 8, 2010 Marks Nobel Peace Prize For Liu Xiaobo From The Communist Giant

October 15th 2010 10:25

The Nobel Committee announced on October 8, 2010, a very revolutionary decision marking the offering of Nobel Peace Prize to a man who have been committing his life for a long time towards fundamental human rights in China via non-violence and is now under confinement in his own homeland, Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident. He has been substantiating his belief that there is a close connection between human rights and peace.

What is amusing in this news is that the announcement is known to everyone, except to the man who won the award as he is serving his 11 year imprisonment, and China being strong in not taking back their steps on the decision made against him, by banning the telecasting of CNN and BBC news that announced the declaration of Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo. They have also declared that this decision is to affect the peaceful relationship between the two countries, Norway being the country hosting the committee for announcement of Nobel Peace Prize.

Chinese foreign minister claimed that the the decision made by the committee has made a blasphemy of the price as Liu as per Chinese law is a convict countering the principle of the prize.

In contrast, Chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, and many other winners of this prize in the past has supported the decision of the committee, and believe that Asian countries should learn to be more tolerant over criticism when they are in the pursuit of becoming one of the major world power. Some of the Chinese dissidents have also supported this decision.

Liu Xiaobo was imprisoned for his participation in 1989 in Tienanmen Square student riots, when pro-democracy forces were dispersed by the military and was sentenced to 11 years of prison and three years in the slave labor camp in the 1990s.

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