Giving Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace prize Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman restored it’s own judgement credibility and moral authority leadership tarnished by nominatiing Obama with a prize last year as advance to his future peace initiatives http://www.xmail.net/technologos/Amao.html Obama, in his statement, also brought up his own Nobel Peace award last year, repeating his belief that other laureates had done more. “That list now includes Mr. Liu, who has sacrificed his freedom for his beliefs” http://www.xmail.net/technologos/Aobama.html The first Human Rights advocate who won prize was Russian academician dissident Andrey Sakharov http://www.xmail.net/technologos/ADS.html and http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jan/15/chinas-charter-08/ Liu’s Charter 08, modeled on Charter 77 that clled for reform in then-Czechoslovakia and helped prompt the Velvet Revolution. (Among those pushing for Liu to get the peace prize this year was Czech dissident-turned-president Vaclav Havel.) The document has been posted and removed from the Internet several times, but more than 10,000 people were nonetheless able to sign on.
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