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Beijing: The Chinese committee that awarded this year’s Confucius Peace Prize minced no words in honouring the winner, Vladimir V Putin, PM of Russia.
It praised his decision to go to war in Chechnya in 1999.
“His iron hand and toughness revealed in this war impressed the Russians a lot, and he was regarded to be capable of bringing safety and stability to Russia,” read an English version of the committee’s statement. “He became the antiterrorist No 1 and the national hero.”
Not only that, it applauded him for “acting as the propagandist of current political events” while still in high school, and for being selected to join the KGB while in college, “which made true his teenage dream of joining the
KGB.” Much later, of course, came the “large-scale military action towards the illegal armed forces in Grozny, Chechnya.”
So went the announcement by a group of 16 patriotic scholars awarding what they call their second annual “grass-roots” peace prize. Four members of the group, the China International Peace Studies Center, held a news conference on Sunday in the Fragrant Hills Park west of central Beijing, but there was curiously little reporting in the Chinese news media about the award.
Then word spread over Twitter on Tuesday that Putin, who had engaged in wars in Chechnya and Georgia, had won the prize, which has been steeped in political intrigue in recent months.
“Those wars were righteous wars,” Qiao Damo, the self-described co-founder and president of the Confucius Peace Prize committee, said in a telephone interview. “Putin fought for the unification of his country.”
In fact, the campaign in Chechnya led to a stream of human rights abuses by Russian and pro-Russian Chechen security forces, including rape, torture and murder, numerous human rights organizations found at the time.
Qiao also said that the committee, which had voted for Putin from among eight nominees, valued his opposition to war. “He was against the Nato bombing of Libya,” Qiao said.
The award was first given out last year as a rejoinder to the Nobel committee’s decision to give the peace prize to Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned dissident writer in China. NYT
We are more than happy for russia to go for war with chechnya,but china ? why china is so happy for russia to go to war with chechnya ? It's must be a huge blasphemy for any true islamic country to have any relations with china.
It praised his decision to go to war in Chechnya in 1999.
“His iron hand and toughness revealed in this war impressed the Russians a lot, and he was regarded to be capable of bringing safety and stability to Russia,” read an English version of the committee’s statement. “He became the antiterrorist No 1 and the national hero.”
Not only that, it applauded him for “acting as the propagandist of current political events” while still in high school, and for being selected to join the KGB while in college, “which made true his teenage dream of joining the
KGB.” Much later, of course, came the “large-scale military action towards the illegal armed forces in Grozny, Chechnya.”
So went the announcement by a group of 16 patriotic scholars awarding what they call their second annual “grass-roots” peace prize. Four members of the group, the China International Peace Studies Center, held a news conference on Sunday in the Fragrant Hills Park west of central Beijing, but there was curiously little reporting in the Chinese news media about the award.
Then word spread over Twitter on Tuesday that Putin, who had engaged in wars in Chechnya and Georgia, had won the prize, which has been steeped in political intrigue in recent months.
“Those wars were righteous wars,” Qiao Damo, the self-described co-founder and president of the Confucius Peace Prize committee, said in a telephone interview. “Putin fought for the unification of his country.”
In fact, the campaign in Chechnya led to a stream of human rights abuses by Russian and pro-Russian Chechen security forces, including rape, torture and murder, numerous human rights organizations found at the time.
Qiao also said that the committee, which had voted for Putin from among eight nominees, valued his opposition to war. “He was against the Nato bombing of Libya,” Qiao said.
The award was first given out last year as a rejoinder to the Nobel committee’s decision to give the peace prize to Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned dissident writer in China. NYT
We are more than happy for russia to go for war with chechnya,but china ? why china is so happy for russia to go to war with chechnya ? It's must be a huge blasphemy for any true islamic country to have any relations with china.
