Our candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize
It's him, Bradley Manning, the American soldier who leaked military secrets to WikiLeaks and helped reveal the atrocities of the United States' actions in Iraq and the so-called "war on terror." After all, who has done more for world peace than him?
247 - Brasil 247 already has its candidate for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize: it's American soldier Bradley Manning, who leaked American military secrets to WikiLeaks. Read below a news report from Opera Mundi regarding the competition:
Bradley Manning is one of the 259 candidates for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.
The number of entries is the highest since the award began in 1895.
From Opera Mundi - U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, who admitted last week to leaking thousands of official documents to WikiLeaks, is one of the 259 candidates for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.
The number of applications is a new record for the award, according to the organization's announcement on Monday (March 4th). In total, there are 209 individuals and 50 organizations.
The previous record was set in 2011, with 241 applications. The selection takes place in October in Oslo, Norway, and the award ceremony is in December.
The director of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, said that the increase in the number of nominations shows the "growing interest in the prize and that the nominations are coming from all over the world." The names of the candidates are only revealed when the person proposing the nomination discloses them, because the institute maintains confidentiality.
Also known are the candidacies of the Pakistani teenager Malala – who suffered attacks for defending the right to education for women and girls in her country –, the Russian non-governmental organization Memorial, which works in defense of human rights; former US President Bill Clinton and the President of Myanmar, Thein Sein.
In 2009, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the President of the United States, Barack Obama. In 2012, it was the European Union's turn to receive the prize. The Nobel Peace Prize is the only one that is announced and awarded outside of Stockholm, by express decision of the prize's founder.
The Nobel Prize was created in 1895 by the Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel (inventor of dynamite).
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