The 1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, co-founder of the Community of Peaceful People, Irish Mairead Corrigan nominated former US National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his informant Chelsea Manning for the award. She listed the nominees for the award in her letter to the Nobel Committee, according to The Irish News.
“Each of them has shown an example of courage countless times in denouncing the illegal actions of governments that have resulted in millions of deaths, [thus] putting their own freedom and life at stake,” Corrigan wrote in the address.
She added that the self-sacrifice and dedication of Snowden, Assange and Manning demonstrate the greatness of the human spirit.
Corrigan noted that Snowden could not remain silent, knowing that the US government was illegally monitoring its citizens and top officials of other countries, Assange revealed the facts about war crimes in Iran and Afghanistan, thus fulfilling his duty as a publisher, and Manning, as an American soldier in Iraq, could not come to terms with the killing of civilians
