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Apparently, I was not the only one taken aback by the Confucian Peace Prize.\u00a0 Here’s a quote from the NYT about the prize and the award givers rationale behind it:<\/p>\n
“It praised his decision to go to war in Chechnya<\/a> in 1999.<\/p>\n \u201cHis 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,\u201d read an English version of the committee\u2019s statement. \u201cHe became the antiterrorist No. 1 and the national hero.\u201d<\/p>\n Not only that, it applauded him for \u201cacting as the propagandist of current political events\u201d while still in high school, and for being selected to join the K.G.B. while in college, \u201cwhich made true his teenage dream of joining the K.G.B.\u201d Much later, of course, came the \u201clarge-scale military action towards the illegal armed forces in Grozny, Chechnya.\u201d”\u00a0 NYT, 11\/15\/11<\/p>\n Another article I read said that the CCP has distanced itself from the organization that has given now 2 peace prizes, the last one to a man who refused to show up.\u00a0 Observers believe this was an attempt to divert attention from the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, imprisoned Chinese dissident writer.<\/p>\n Oops.\u00a0 Didn’t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Moon of the Winter Solstice Apparently, I was not the only one taken aback by the Confucian Peace Prize.\u00a0 Here’s a quote from the NYT about the prize and the award givers rationale behind it: “It praised his decision to go to war in Chechnya in 1999. \u201cHis iron hand and toughness revealed in … Continue reading Peace? Prize? Putin?<\/span>