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Why We Honored Liu Xiaobo
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The Nobel Prize Committee's views on free expression of opinion in China, and the selection of Liu Xiaobo for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, points out that it is not an interference in China's internal affairs, because international human rights law and standards are above the nation-state, and the world community has a duty to ensure that they are respected. Jagland says the issue is universal human rights and the check on arbitrary majorities around the world. Even if the country is not a constitutional democracy, it is a member of the United Nations, and it has amended its Constitution to comply with the Declaration of Human Rights. The Nobel Committee chairman points to two other selections for the Nobel Prize, that of Andrei Sakharov of Russia, and of Rev. Martin Luther King of the U.S., as evidence that the Nobel Committee has stood up for universal human rights for a long time.
China's Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
10/22/2010
Mo Yan is popular both inside and outside China and the awarding of the prize to Mo was received with wide acclaim in China. Mo Yan is from a farming community in eastern Shandong provice. He writes about the problems and ungliness of human nature and society using fairy tale characters and animal characters, and references to China's past. Mo Yan is the writer's pen name, meaning "don't speak." During the cultural revolution his parents told him not to speak to people outside as it could get him into trouble.
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