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8 October 2010,
WASHINGTON — A senior figure in China’s democracy movement said Friday
that others deserved the Nobel Peace Prize more than Liu Xiaobo, calling him
a moderate willing to work with Beijing.
The Nobel committee gave the prestigious prize to Liu, a writer and academic
who was jailed in December 2009 after co-writing a manifesto for democratic
reforms in China.
Wei Jingsheng, who spent nearly two decades in prison for his stinging calls
for democracy in China, said Liu had often been allowed to operate freely
and had criticized proponents for more sweeping changes.
“In my observation, the Nobel Peace Prize is going to Liu because he is
different from the majority of people in opposition. He made more gestures
of cooperation with the government and made more criticism of other
resisters who suffered,” Wei told AFP in Washington, where he lives in
exile.
While China has denounced the Nobel committee, Wei said that Beijing’s
criticism was comparatively low-key.
“That might be the main reason that the Norwegians were finally able to
withstand the pressure,” Wei said.
Wei said that the Nobel would help Liu leave jail earlier and raise the
profile of moderate reformists, in the process encouraging Chinese to work
within the system.
“Unless the political system of the Chinese government is indeed heading
for a peaceful evolution, political stability would serve to consolidate the
one-party dictatorship and be negative to both reformists and
revolutionaries,” he said.
Wei said there were “tens of thousands” of Chinese who would deserve the
Nobel Peace Prize including Hu Jia, a jailed advocate for AIDS patients,
Chen Guangcheng, who exposed corruption in the one-child policy, and missing
human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
Wei himself has been tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize in the past.
A former electrician at the Beijing zoo, Wei rose to prominence after leader
Mao Zedong died in 1976 and the government encouraged Chinese to put up
posters airing grievances about past excesses.
Wei boldly put up a poster urging democracy and signed his name to it. He
spent a total of 18 years in prison, partially on death row, until an appeal
by then US president Bill Clinton allowed him to go into exile.
WASHINGTON — A senior figure in China’s democracy movement said Friday
that others deserved the Nobel Peace Prize more than Liu Xiaobo, calling him
a moderate willing to work with Beijing.
The Nobel committee gave the prestigious prize to Liu, a writer and academic
who was jailed in December 2009 after co-writing a manifesto for democratic
reforms in China.
Wei Jingsheng, who spent nearly two decades in prison for his stinging calls
for democracy in China, said Liu had often been allowed to operate freely
and had criticized proponents for more sweeping changes.
“In my observation, the Nobel Peace Prize is going to Liu because he is
different from the majority of people in opposition. He made more gestures
of cooperation with the government and made more criticism of other
resisters who suffered,” Wei told AFP in Washington, where he lives in
exile.
While China has denounced the Nobel committee, Wei said that Beijing’s
criticism was comparatively low-key.
“That might be the main reason that the Norwegians were finally able to
withstand the pressure,” Wei said.
Wei said that the Nobel would help Liu leave jail earlier and raise the
profile of moderate reformists, in the process encouraging Chinese to work
within the system.
“Unless the political system of the Chinese government is indeed heading
for a peaceful evolution, political stability would serve to consolidate the
one-party dictatorship and be negative to both reformists and
revolutionaries,” he said.
Wei said there were “tens of thousands” of Chinese who would deserve the
Nobel Peace Prize including Hu Jia, a jailed advocate for AIDS patients,
Chen Guangcheng, who exposed corruption in the one-child policy, and missing
human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
Wei himself has been tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize in the past.
A former electrician at the Beijing zoo, Wei rose to prominence after leader
Mao Zedong died in 1976 and the government encouraged Chinese to put up
posters airing grievances about past excesses.
Wei boldly put up a poster urging democracy and signed his name to it. He
spent a total of 18 years in prison, partially on death row, until an appeal
by then US president Bill Clinton allowed him to go into exile.