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Massive request for the Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to American Whistle blower Manning
Monday, 12 August 2013
More than 100,000 signatures have been submitted today to the Nobel
Committee in Oslo requesting that Bradley Manning, the US military
whistle blower who released loads of secret documents to the site,
WikiLeaks, be warded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Image/Signatures being paraded around the Streest of Oslo towards the Committee
Bradley Manning leaked over 700 000 secret and classified
documents which exposed what his supports termed U.S.
hypocrisy and which showed the roles of the country's war
machinery described as crimes in Iraq, committed between 2009 and
2010. In a film that Manning leaked to WikiLeaks it showed U.S.
military helicopter shooting dead civilians in Baghdad in 2007.
Bradley Manning now faces 136 years in prison for crimes that include
espionage, computer fraud, and other military offenses. Manning was
acquitted, but was still found guilty of serious charges, which is
generally interpreted that which helped America's enemies.
Over 100,000 people worldwide now believe that Bradley Manning should
get the Nobel Peace Prize, according to reports in Swedish media. Today
at 15:00 Norwegian time, some 100 000 signatures were submitted to the
Nobel Committee in Oslo for consideration to that course. Norman
Solomon, a founder of RootsAction.org, would submit the bundle of
signatures that have been drown to the court with the help of a cart
being pulled all on the streets of Oslo.
Two stacks of signatures were protected under plastic wagon so that the
evidenced would not be destroyed by rain as they were being transported
to the select committee.
This is not the first time Bradley Manning name has emerged as on the
board of the nominated for the award. Already last year, he was among
the nominees, but the Nobel Committee chose instead to give the Peace
Prize to the European Union.
This year there are also calls for the whistle blower, Edward Snowden to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
According to the chairman of Nobel Committee in Norway Bradley Manning has a chance to receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
by Scancomark.com Team