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A comment on Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi. Parent comment

Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by coldtea on Thursday September 20, 2018 @08:40AM (#18031857)
>but she was a Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Wasn't Obama as well? And he maintained a torture camp, occupying forces, and tons of bombings.

The "Nobel Peace Prize" is a political tool, not some valuable metric.

Someone mentioned Kissinger having one as well...

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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by cuboidGoat on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:03AM (#18032502)
Obama was the first Nobel peace price recipient to bomb another Nobel prize recipient after getting the award, after an airstrike on an MSF hospital.

Kissinger is also responsible for bombing of another Nobel Peace prize winner, however he ordered the secret bombing in Laos and Cambodia that destroyed Red Cross facilities shortly before getting his, rather than shortly after.

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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by coldtea on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:45AM (#18033307)
>Obama was the first Nobel peace price recipient to bomb another Nobel prize recipient after getting the award, after an airstrike on an MSF hospital.

Yeah, it would have been awkward in the subsequent Nobel alumni meeting...

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