Zimbabwe's controversial president Mugabe wins China's version of Nobel Peace Prize

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

Zimbabwe's controversial president Robert Mugabe was awarded China's alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday for what the prize committee called his inspired national leadership and service to pan-Africanism.

 

The 91-year-old Mugabe is the latest in a series of critics of the West who have received the Confucius Peace Prize.

 

Under his rule, the government pushed a plan to acquire large parcels of land, many from white owners, to give to black farmers. When owners challenged the move in 2002, Mugabe reportedly called them "greedy, greedy colonials."

 

After fighting in a guerrilla war in the 1970s, Mugabe was elected president in 1980. He has been in power for 35 years with no clear successor.

 

Critics say he cracked down on opposition groups, sending many of their leaders to jail.

 

The prize committee defended its decision, saying Mugabe has "overcome difficulties of all kinds and has strongly committed himself to constructing his nation's political and economic order, while strongly supporting pan-Africanism and African independence."

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Booby prize.