Nobel Peace Prize goes to South African judge
Oslo, Oct. 10 -- The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to South Africa's Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, the judge who headed the Rwanda genocide tribunal and who last year presided over a UN commission which accused Israel of genocide in Gaza.
Pillay, currently a judge on the International Court of Justice in a case where Myanmar also stands accused of genocide, has been "instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are prosecuted," said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.
She reacted to the news by making a quip about US President Donald Trump's well-documented desire to win the prize himself. "If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump," the 85-year-old said during a standing ovation captured by Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard in Nuremberg and posted on X.P12...
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