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News Flash: vEDik TRUTH: "DHARm says if YOU uphold ME then I will Protect YOU"...2010 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE PROVES IT...through a imprisoned Chinese Human
Posted by Vishva News Reporter on October 8, 2010 |
....HUMAN SPIRIT FOR THE CAUSE OF
HUMAN BIRTH RIGHT FREEDOM
CONTINUES TO PREVAIL.... |
  
Left Photo: Liu Xiaobo in younger days; Middle Photo: Liu & wife
Liu Xia(2002); Right Photo: Recent Liu Xiaobo |
ON OCTOBER 7,
2010
THE Norwegian Nobel Committee
Awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to
The first 54 year old citizen of the People's Republic of China
Liu Xiaobo
(Chinese intellectual, writer, and human rights activist and a political
prisoner in China)
for his leading the fight for 1.2
billion Chinese
to have through Chinese Charter 08,
published on Dec. 10, 2008,
the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
a greater freedom of
expression, association, assembly and religion,
meaningful elections and a judiciary not controlled by the Communist
Party.
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The Nobel Committee awarded the Prize because of
"his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in
China."
Liu, is currently completing the first year of an 11-year prison
sentence for "subversion" as defined by the Government of China...
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ON
BEING JAILED LIU XIAOBO SAID:
"I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands
up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step into
prison...now I am taking that step; and true freedom is that much
nearer."
Liu Xia, wife of Liu Xiaobo said on the Nobel Prize News:
"We have no regrets. All of this has been of our choosing. It will
always be so.
We'll bear the consequences together." |
CHINA'S
COMMUNIST MIND-SET REACTION
TOWARDS NORWAY.....
China's government denounced the award
as "a desecration" and said the honor should have gone to someone
focused on promoting international friendship and disarmament and not to
a sentenced criminal who has violated Chinese law. In the run-up
to the Norway's decision, China warned Norway that selecting Liu would
affect current negotiations of mutual economic ties of foreign Ministry
official to Oslo to press its case. |
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.....China's Liu Xiaobo wins
2010 Nobel Peace Prize....
(From:
Washington Post: October 8, 2010: By John Pomfret, Staff Writer
plus
Correspondent William Wan in Beijing contributed to this report. )
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The first citizen of the People's Republic of China to win a Nobel prize
was awarded the honor Friday for advocating greater freedom in his
country.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement that Liu Xiaobo - a
prickly, chain-smoking dissident of moderate views - deserved the Nobel
Peace Prize because of "his long and non-violent struggle for
fundamental human rights in China."
Liu, 54, who is nearing the end of
the first year of an 11-year prison sentence for subversion, becomes
only the second person to win the peace prize while incarcerated,
following German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, who won it in 1935 while
jailed by the Nazis.
President Obama, last year's Nobel peace laureate, called on China to
release Liu and said the award reminded the world that while "China has
made dramatic progress in economic reform and improving the lives of its
people, . . . political reform has not kept pace."
Analysts said the honor appeared aimed at pressuring China to ease the
crackdown on religious and political activists that has been a hallmark
of President Hu Jintao's tenure.
China's government denounced the award
as "a desecration" and said the honor should have gone to someone
focused on promoting international friendship and disarmament.
"Liu Xiaobo is a sentenced criminal who has violated Chinese law,"
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said, adding that honoring Liu
"runs counter to the principles of the Nobel Peace Prize."
Liu's win underscored the limits of China's influence even as the
country emerges as a global power. In the run-up to the decision, China
warned Norway that selecting Liu would affect mutual ties and dispatched
a Foreign Ministry official to Oslo to press its case.
The two countries
are in the process of negotiating a free-trade deal, and Norway's oil
industry - a crucial sector of its economy - wants to boost its business
dealings in China. In a sign that it was unwilling to be cowed, however,
Norway's government chose to publicize the Beijing official's ostensibly
private visit.
The award also highlights another issue facing China as it makes the
transition from developed country to superpower.
As it has risen, China
has lived by a dictum of Deng Xiaoping, the man who opened Communist
China to the West: "Hide in the shadows, and focus on building
ourselves."
But China can no longer "hide in the shadows." It boasts the
world's second-largest economy. Its appetites - for iron ore, natural
gas and oil - roil markets around the world. Yet with size comes
discomfiting scrutiny.
"China has become a big power in economic terms, as well as political
terms," observed Thorbjoern Jagland, the Norwegian Nobel Committee
chairman, "and it is normal that big powers should be under criticism."
China, however, does not view such criticism as normal.
Liu is serving his 11-year sentence at Jinzhou prison in Liaoning,
hundreds of miles from his home and from his wife, Liu Xia, in Beijing.
In an interview shortly before the announcement, Liu Xia said she was
thankful that her husband's physical condition seems to have improved in
jail and grateful that he has been allowed to read and exchange regular
letters with her.
"We have no regrets," she said. "All of this has been of our choosing.
It will always be so. We'll bear the consequences together."
A prize with resonance
Analysts predicted that in the short term, China's one-party state would
react to the award by intensifying an already stringent campaign against
dissidents, religious activists and non-governmental organizations.
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Although China outwardly appears strong, with a world-beating economic
growth rate, prosecutions for "state security" offenses are approaching
numbers not seen since the bloody crackdown on student-led protests
around Tiananmen Square in 1989.
But in the long term, a wide spectrum of Chinese and foreigners said,
Liu's award could resonate more deeply within China than any similar act
in years - significantly more than the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the
Dalai Lama in 1989, say, or the Nobel Prize in Literature given to
dissident writer Gao Xingjian in 2000.
In the first place, Liu's status as the first mainland Chinese citizen
to win a Nobel prize matters deeply in a nation that craves recognition
by the West.
The Dalai Lama - who on Friday urged China to free Liu -
has refugee status. Gao is a French citizen. And several Chinese-born
physics prize winners, including Daniel Tsui in 1998 and Charles Kao
last year, have also taken on other citizenships.
Second, Liu is profoundly moderate. Unlike the exiled dissident Wei
Jingsheng, who criticized Liu on Friday for being too understanding of
the Chinese Communist Party, Liu has never advocated revolution.
As
such, he has escaped the sentence of irrelevance meted out to so many of
his dissident contemporaries.
"You can say whatever you want in China today," he said in an interview
with The Washington Post in 2002, acknowledging the huge strides made
toward personal freedom since economic reforms began in the late 1970s.
Then he added: "As long as you do it alone."
'A moth to the flame'
The crime that brought Liu his current, and longest, sentence was
volunteering to have his name lead a list of signatories to a manifesto
known as Charter 08. Modeled on the Charter 77 movement in Cold War-era
Czechoslovakia, Charter 08 called for greater freedom of expression,
association, assembly and religion, meaningful elections and a judiciary
not controlled by the Communist Party.
To date, more than 8,000 people have signed it.
Published on Dec. 10, 2008, the 60th anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the charter was intended "to put a stake in
the ground and say here's an alternate vision of China," said Perry
Link, a renowned China scholar who helped the group translate its
manifesto into English. "It was definitely a long-term program."
Link, who spent a month with Liu and others as the manifesto went from
one draft to another, recalled that Liu did not start out as a leader of
the group. "But once he saw it was going somewhere, he naturally
volunteered to be out front," Link said.
Liu didn't hog publicity, Link added. "He just doesn't shrink from
putting his head on the line. He was like a moth to the flame."
Liu had taken such risks before. In 1989, he left a comfortable post as
a visiting scholar at Columbia University to return to China to
participate in demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, after which he was
jailed.
After Liu's sentencing last year, his attorney released a simple
statement by his client: "I have long been aware that when an
independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one
toward freedom is often a step into prison," it said. "Now I am taking
that step; and true freedom is that much nearer." |
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Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace
Prize on Friday for "his long and non-violent struggle for
fundamental human rights", a prize likely to enrage the Chinese
government.
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