WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been awarded the sydney peace foundation gold Medal for exceptional courage in the pursuit of human rights. According to a foundation veteran Australian broadcaster Mary Kostakidis praised WikiLeaks as an ingenious and heroic website that has shifted the power balance between citizen and the state by exposing what governments really get up to in out name.
In acepting the Gold medal Assange said" The real of this award, and sydney peace foundation is that it makes explicit the link between peace and justice. It does not take the safe feel good option of shunning controversy by uttering platitudies. Instead it goes in to difficult terrain by identifying organisations and individuals who are directlyy engaged in struggles of one kind or another" he said.
Only three other people have received this award in the foundation 14 years history. They are Tibetain spiritual leader the Dalai Lama,Former south African president Nelson Mandala and Japanese Budhist leader Daisakulkedia.
Prof.John Kurakar
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