Chitchat A Sting for China: Joshua Wong nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by US congressmen.

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Joshua Wong and other Occupy leaders nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by US congressmen

A US congressional group known for its criticism of China has nominated Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung and two allies who led the 2014 Occupy protests for the Nobel Peace Prize, in a highly controversial move likely to anger Beijing.

The names of Wong, Nathan Law Kwun-chung and Alex Chow Yong-kang, as well as the entire campaign popularly known as the “umbrella movement”, were put forward to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo by a group of 12 US congressmen.

This is the first time there has been a nominee from Hong Kong.

 

[democracy my butt]

Nobel Peace Prize is a LAUGHINGSTOCK and INSULT to Ang Moh got ZERO Respect Left for this crap:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09...ce-rohingya-crisis-fellow-nobel-laureate-isnt

Aung San Suu Kyi breaks her silence on Rohingya crisis, but a fellow Nobel laureate isn't impressed


PRI's The World

September 19, 2017 · 5:45 PM EDT

By Amulya Shankar
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Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech to the nation over Rakhine and Rohingya situation, in Naypyitaw.

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Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

It’s been more than a month since members of a Rohingya militant group attacked police outposts in northern Myanmar, killing 12 people.

The attack led to a massive Myanmar military crackdown on the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority that is denied equal rights and widely despised by the Buddhist majority.

About 400,000 Rohingya have fled across the border into Bangladesh since then, with reports of burning villages and mass killings. A UN official called the Rohingya crisis "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing."

Related: Myanmar’s gruesome purge of Rohingya Muslims appears unstoppable

Aung San Suu Kyi, the famous Nobel Peace Prize winner and de facto leader of Myanmar, finally broke her silence on the plight of the Rohingya people Tuesday, but she’s been criticized by many in the international community once again for refusing to acknowledge the Myanmar military’s role in creating the crisis.

“She is not acting like a beacon of hope for democracy, in my book. Nor is she protecting the human rights of all of the people of Myanmar,” says fellow Nobel laureate Jody Williams.

Related: Aung San Suu Kyi's silence on Rohingya ethnic cleansing could be political pragmatism

Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and was one of five laureates who wrote Suu Kyi a letter urging her to stand up for the Rohingya people.

Williams says she’s met Suu Kyi twice. The first time, Suu Kyi was still under house arrest and spoke mostly about her political goals for democracy in Myanmar.

The second time, Suu Kyi was free and met with members of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, including Williams, who asked her questions about human rights in Myanmar.

Suu Kyi's response was “phenomenally hostile,” says Williams. “She did not want to talk about human rights. She was sick of people always asking her about human rights.”

Related: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi to miss UN trip amid Rohingya crisis

A young Burmese woman who considered Suu Kyi a hero also attended the meeting, Williams, says, “and when it ended — unpleasantly — the poor young woman just burst into tears, and said ‘I cannot believe that this is Aung San Suu Kyi.’”

You can listen to Nobel laureate Jody Williams' full interview above.

 

[eatshitndie]

no worries. nobel nominee today recalcitrant tyrant tomorrow. if joshua were to get it he might becum leader of hongkang one day, and in irony of ironies, he might becum a terrible tyrant once he were to assume power. such is the comedy of the nobel peace price, oops i mean prize. :p

 

[blissquek]

Don't remember anyone from Singapore on the nominee list,or even come close to it.

Not even LKY..??

 

[greedy and cunning]

no need to nominate any sillypootians ,
as sillypoore is pro americaunt.

all those so called international org , like WB , WTO , UN ,IMF,
are controlled by the americunts.
to manipulate and drive events for self interest.

in the beginning there was no nobel prize for economics
it was invented to give those winners a more authority in what they say.
to make economics looks like science.
gullible public and politicians then accept their theories as gospel