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| Thursday, 11 December 2003 |
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Nobel Peace Prize winner takes swipe at US OSLO, Wednesday (AFP) Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, implicitly criticised the United States the eve of her prize-giving ceremony, warning that attempts to introduce democracy through military means were "futile." Ebadi said she opposed resorting to military force to enforce democracy, in response to a question on how the international community should pressure Iran to open up to democratic freedom and human rights. "Democracy should not be used to attack other countries, to launch military attacks against other countries," Ebadi said, suggesting that she did not want to see a repetition in Iran of the US-led war on Iraq. "Any kind of military assault is futile and it's null and void," she said. "The realization of democracy is a national and patriotic duty of ours," she said. While the 2003 Peace Prize laureate, who was speaking at a press conference at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, did not specifically mention the United States. |
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