Posted on 10/12/2010 7:10:30 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Liu dedicates Nobel prize to Tiananmen victims
by Robert Saiget Mon Oct 11, 9:45 am ET
BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has tearfully dedicated his award to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, activists said, as his wife was held under house arrest on Monday.
"This award is for the lost souls of June Fourth," the US-based group Human Rights in China quoted Liu Xiaobo as telling his wife Liu Xia, referring to the bloody June 4, 1989 crackdown on democracy protests at the vast Beijing square.
The 54-year-old writer, who was jailed for 11 years in December after authoring a bold petition calling for democratic reforms, was awarded the prize by the Oslo-based committee Friday, sparking a furious reaction from Beijing.
Leaders around the world including US President Barack Obama -- last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner -- lauded the 2010 winner and called on the Chinese government to release him immediately.
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Ouch! Go Liu!
Is this an accident, or is the Nobel committee realizing the recent screw-ups and trying to make the prize relevant again?
That isn’t fair though. We concentrate on the failures like Obama and Gore too often, but forget those who deserved it, like this guy and Muhammad Yunus, who has done a lot to relieve poverty in Bangladesh through capitalism. Of course the socialists don’t like him, but somehow he still got the prize.
PRAISE GOD.
MAY GOD BE WITH HIM AND HIS FAMILY AND ALL THE FAMILIES . . .
On a different note . . . coming soon to a neighborhood not that far away . . .
a replay . . .
Tienanmen II, III, IV
etc on America’s shores
Our evil treasonous leaders love blood, theft, greed and gore.
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