Nobel Peace Prize winners denounced Russia's invasion of Ukraine[/B]. Belarusian Ales Bialiatsky, the Russian organization Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties were awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize in the midst of the war in Ukraine.
Russia seeks to turn Ukraine into a "dependent dictatorship" like Belarus, said the wife of Nobel Peace Prize-winning imprisoned Belarusian dissident Ales Bialiatsky, accepting the prize in his place at the ceremony in Oslo and uttering his own words.
Natalia Pinsuk said her husband was dedicating the Nobel Peace Prize "to the millions of Belarusian citizens who stood up and took action in the streets and on the Internet in defence of civil rights".
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"It highlights the dramatic situation and the struggle for civil rights in the country," he said, emphasizing that he was speaking his own words.
Natalia Pinsuk said she met her husband when his award was announced, in prison, behind a glass curtain.
"I know exactly what kind of Ukraine suits Russia and Putin - a dependent dictatorship. The same as today's Belarus, where the voice of the oppressed people is ignored and devalued," he said at today's ceremony.
The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee said that "the committee's thoughts are directed to all prisoners of conscience in Belarus."
"In particular, we think of Ales Bialiatski in his dark and isolated cell in Minsk," said Berit Rice-Andersen. "You are not alone. We are on your side."
"Peace will not come by laying down arms."
Peace in Ukraine cannot be achieved by laying down arms against Vladimir Putin's Russia, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviychuk of Ukraine said while accepting the award at a ceremony in Oslo.
"The people of Ukraine want peace more than anyone in the world," said the head of the Center for Civil Liberties.
"But peace for a country under attack cannot be achieved by laying down arms. It would not be peace, but occupation."
"Paranoid war"
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Russian president of the non-governmental organization Memorial Jan Raczynski denounced Vladimir Putin's "paranoid and criminal war" in Ukraine while accepting the prize in Oslo.
Under Putin's presidency, "resistance to Russia is tantamount to fascism," a transmutation that offers "the ideological justification for the paranoid and criminal war of aggression against Ukraine," Jan Raczynski said in his speech during the Nobel Prize ceremony.
Source: in.gr
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