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Nobel Peace Prize

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The Nobel Peace Prize (Scandinavian languages: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish in
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Guatemalan 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu (R) hugs a relative of a victim of Guatemala\'s civil war during the trial against former Guatemalan de facto President (1982-1983), retired General Jose Efrain Rios Montt, on charges of genocide committed during his regime, in Guatemala City, on May 10, 2013. Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and war crimes on Friday in a landmark ruling stemming from massacres of indigenous people in his country\'s long civil war. Rios Montt thus became the first Latin American convicted of trying to exterminate an entire group of people in a brief but particularly gruesome stretch of a war that started in 1960, lasted 36 years and left around 200,000 people dead or missing.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu arrives at the Supreme Court of Justice for the sentencing of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt in Guatemala City May 10, 2013. A Guatemalan court on Friday found Rios Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of a 36-year civil war.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate winner Rigoberta Menchu, right, hugs the relative of a victim of the country\'s civil before the verdict is announced in the genocide trial for Guatemala\'s former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt in Guatemala City, Friday, May 10, 2013. The Guatemalan court convicted Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, sentencing him to 80 years in prison. The 86-year-old former general is the first former Latin American leader ever found guilty of such a charge. The war between the government and leftist rebels cost more than 200,000 lives and ended in peace accords in 1996.
Protesters from a hardline Muslim group demand that the Nobel Peace Prize award be revoked from Nobel lauriate Aung San Suu Kyi (pictured on placard R) during anti-Myanmar protests in Solo, Central Java, on May 3, 2013. The protest highlighted the growing anger in Muslim-majority Indonesia over a string of religious clashes in largely-Buddhist Myanmar, that have left many minority Muslims dead and tens of thousands displaced. Meanwhile, two Indonesians were detained over a plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, officials said.
A protester from a hardline Muslim group wearing a mask showing a portrait of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi takes part in an anti-Myanmar protest in Solo, Central Java, on May 3, 2013. The protest highlighted the growing anger in Muslim-majority Indonesia over a string of religious clashes in largely-Buddhist Myanmar, that have left many minority Muslims dead and tens of thousands displaced. Meanwhile, two Indonesians were detained over a plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, officials said.
Former US president Bill Clinton (R) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, founding chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, attend a ceremony to celebrate the museum\'s 20th anniversary in Washington on April 29, 2013.
Guatemalan 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu (R) hugs a relative of a victim of Guatemala's civil war during the trial against former Guatemalan de facto President (1982-1983), retired General Jose Efrain Rios Montt, on charges of genocide committed during his regime, in Guatemala City, on May 10, 2013. Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and war crimes on Friday in a landmark ruling stemming from massacres of indigenous people in his country's long civil war. Rios Montt thus became the first Latin American convicted of trying to exterminate an entire group of people in a brief but particularly gruesome stretch of a war that started in 1960, lasted 36 years and left around 200,000 people dead or missing.
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