http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/23-10-2014/128882-nobel_peace_prize-0/

The award of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize to Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai and India’s Kailash Satyarthi raises anew the persistent question concerning the dirty politics of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the past decades. There are 3 major evidences to back up this claim.

1 BOTH WINNERS HAVE MADE NO ACHIEVEMET FOR WORLD PEACE

2 THE AWARD SERVES NORWEGIAN FOREIGN INTERESTS

Firstly, the works of Malala and Satyarthi have nothing to do with regional geopolitics between Pakistan and India (and also have nothing to do with religious harmony between Muslims and Hindus in South Asia) and therefore have made no achievement for regional geopolitical and religious peace in South Asia, as this rivalry between the two countries has existed since the end of the British colonial rule after the end of WWII.

And secondly, Malala and Satyarthi had never worked together (prior to the award) to promote anything in South Asia in the past decades; after all, Malala is still a teenager now (17 years old) and was not even born then (in much of the history of South Asian multi-dimensional conflicts).

3 THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE HAS A LONG NOTORIOUS HISTORY OF PARTIALITY

The members of the committee are ex politicians “political” in orientation, especially when they have to decide on matters which are political by nature, that is, about “world

peace.”

There is a long list of controversial winners in the past decades awards given to Lê Ðức Thọ and Henry Kissinger prompted two dissenting Committee members to resign. Thọ refused to accept the prize, on the grounds that peace had not actually been achieved in Vietnam,” as documented in the Wikipedia article on “Nobel Peace Prize.”

Third reason is that there are notable omissions of individuals in the past who deserved the prize but had been denied. For instance, “Foreign Policy has listed Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, U. Thant, Václav Havel, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Fazle Hasan Abed, Sari Nusseibeh, and Corazon Aquino as people who ‘never won the prize, but should have.

“The omission of Mahatma Gandhi has been particularly widely discussed, including in public statements by various members of the Nobel Committee. The Committee has confirmed that Gandhi was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, and, finally, a few days before his death in January 1948. The omission has been publicly regretted by later members of the Nobel Committee. Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006 said, ‘The greatest omission in our 106-year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace prize. Gandhi could do without the Nobel Peace prize, whether Nobel committee can do without Gandhi is the question,'”

The point here is not that Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi have done no good for the world in their lives but that the award of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize to them is a travesty of impartiality and a slap on the face of world peace. Malala may be nominated for a Nobel “Education” Prize and Satyarthi may be nominated for a Nobel “Abolition” Prize, but they do not deserve the Nobel “Peace” Prize.

Just in case that one may be tempted to dismiss this talk of the dirty politics of the Norwegian Nobel Committee as speculative at best, it is important to remember that “criticism summed up in the books of Norwegian lawyer Fredrik S. Heffermehl has [already] instigated a call by 16 prominent Scandinavians for a criminal investigation” against the Norwegian Nobel Committee, starting in 2014, as reported in the article “Criminal Investigation of the Nobel Peace Prize” on February 25, 2014 and documented in the Wikipedia article on “Nobel Peace Prize.”

Think about it again: The Norwegian Nobel Committee is under “criminal investigation”! Well, as a Chinese “sarcastic” saying has it, “We live in an interesting time.”