Edward Snowden (as the ...) or Bradley Manning, admit that it would have cachet, but do not remain in stupid bliss, and know who is at the origin of the Nobel Peace Prize...
The American soldier had transmitted nearly 700.000 diplomatic and military documents to Wikileaks. He is currently in prison.
Support from Bradley Manning, American soldier judged for having transmitted confidential documents to WikiLeaks, presented Monday, August 12 to the Nobel Institute in Oslo a giant petition for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to him.
According to them, such a prize would also dissipate "the cloud" which "hovered over the Norwegian Nobel Committee" since the awarding of the prestigious award to US President Barack Obama in 2009 when he had just taken office. and that he had just decided to intensify the war effort in Afghanistan.
"No one has done more to fight what Martin Luther King Junior called 'the madness of militarism' than Bradley Manning", explains the text which has collected more than 103.000 signatures.
"And now, still in prison and facing relentless lawsuits from the US government, no one needs the Nobel Peace Prize so much," it read.
Encourage whistleblowers
Tried by a court martial for having transmitted some 700.000 diplomatic and military documents to the WikiLeaks website, Bradley Manning was found guilty last month of 20 counts, including five violations of the Espionage Act.
Punishable by up to 90 years in prison, he should soon be fixed on his sentence.
According to the American journalist Norman Solomon, one of the initiators of the petition, a Nobel to the 25-year-old soldier would highlight the importance of whistleblowers for peace and democracy.
"If the truth cannot be told, achieving peace becomes a superficial exercise in rhetoric rather than reality," Norman Solomon said at a press briefing before handing over the 5.000-page document - comments included - at the Nobel Institute.
Denouncing "a normalization of perpetual war" with cruise missiles and drones, the activist, disappointed with Barack Obama, felt that such a Nobel would restore the image of the prize after its award to the current president. American.
Believe in "transparency"
The Nobel Peace Prize at this point needs Bradley Manning more than Bradley Manning needs the Nobel Peace Prize because there is no doubt about Bradley Manning's commitment to human rights. 'Man and peace,' said Norman Solomon.
Corn "there are growing questions about the Nobel Committee and its fair and independent commitment to human rights and peace", he added.
evoking Edward Snowden, an American fugitive also wanted for espionage and a refugee in Russia, and Julian Assange, the Australian founder of WikiLeaks, Norman Solomon denounced "the gradual but marked tendency of the Obama administration to rely on repression, threats and the public bludgeoning of officials and others who believe in transparency".
The director of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, has in the past asserted that such mobilization campaigns do not influence the choices of the Nobel committee.
The 2013 Peace Prize will be announced on October 11 in Oslo.
source: Tempsreel.nouvelobs.com
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