Update 5/15/2013: Dictator of the year with 65 votes is Bashar al-Assad followed by Kim
Jong-un with 62 votes and Alexander Lukashenko with 21 votes. Incidentally, the Castro brothers have excellent relations with all three and both Lukashenkko and al-Assad have visited Cuba.
The Dictator of the Year at Oslo Freedom Forum
15 May 2013, 16:45
The Architects of Evil
The Dictator of the Year initiative is an endeavor to complement the most celebrated peace award in the world: the Nobel Peace Prize.
The idea behind the Dictator of the Year Prize
is that it is not enough to celebrate people who have contributed to
international peace; it is just as important to draw attention to the
architects of genocide, torture and mayhem – those who have wrecked
livelihoods of millions of people and who remain unpunished to this day.
This initiative is oriented towards both
bringing to focus the atrocities committed by political regimes as well
as inspiring hope for liberation from oppression and restoration of
human dignity in non-democratic countries around the world.
The student community of Oslo
University wants to name and shame the totalitarian political leaders in
a carnivalesque human rights ceremony, during the Oslo Freedom Forum 2013 festival.
Voting is open from 23. April – 9. May 2013.
The award ceremony will take place on the 15th of May at 16:45 o’clock, University Square, downtown Oslo.
Candidates
These are the candidates for the 2013 Dictator of the Year Award:Omar al-Bashir
Robert Mugabe
Kimg Jong-un
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
Xi Jinping
King Abdullah
Fidel and Raul Castro
Bashar al-Assad
Ali Khamenei
Alexander Lukashenko
Ceremony
The ceremony in which the Dictator
of the Year award well be bestowed upon the winning candidate, will take
place on the 15th of May 2013, 16:45, in front of the university main
building – Universitetsplassen, in Karl Johans gate.
The guest performer is Shabana Rehman Gaarder. The ceremony will be performed in cooperation with the Oslo Freedom Forum.
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