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TF - Civil Courage Newsletter 1/22/2018 6:37 PM Page 4 Newsetter 2018 Draft_TF - Civil Courage Newsletter 1/22/2018 6:37 PM Page 4 The Train Foundation Past Honorees 2017 Pierre Claver 2009 Aminatou Haidar 2003 Shahnaz Bukhari Trustees and Officers Battler against the burning Civil Courage News Mbonimpa Champion of the non- Campaigner for justice in violent campaign for and other abuses of Pakstani The Hon. John Train Burundi self-determination in women Journal of the Civil Courage Prize Vol. 14, No. 1 • January 2018 Trustee, Chairman Western Sahara 2002 George Biddle 2016 RBSS 2008 Vladimiro Roca Trustee, Co-Chairman Ali Salem Antunez (Raqqa is Being Egyptian author and For Steadfast Resistance to Evil at Great Personal Risk Champion of freedom, Cuba Ambassador Edward Streator Slaughtered Silently) journalist. Voice for Trustee, President Emeritus Journalists revealing peace and reason in the Gustavo Arcos ISIS atrocities from inside Middle East Bergnes Ariadne Calvo-Platero Syria Gilmour Sees Civil Courage As (Honorable Mention) The 2017 Civil Courage Prize-Winner Trustee, President 2007 Phillip Buck Musa T. Klebnikov Thuli Madonsela Imprisoned in China for Early democracy activist, Cuba Necessary To Combat Backlash Trustee, Secretary (Honorable Mention) guiding North Korean Pierre Claver Mbonimpa Continues Louis N. Bickford Anti-corruption crusader, refugees in their escape 2001 Paul Kamara Against Human Rights Defenders Trustee South Africa to freedom Editor and journalist His Fight In Exile For Justice In Burundi fighting tyranny in Sierra he keynote speech at the 2017 n Wednesday, October human rights defender, today has Ambassador Nicholas Platt 2006 Rafael Marques Leone Trustee 2015 Claudia Paz y Paz Civil Courage Prize Ceremony 18th, Pierre Claver become extremely dangerous." de Morais T O Ann Brownell Sloane Prosecutor of human 2000 Natasa Kandic was given by Andrew Gilmour, the U.N.'s Mbonimpa was awarded the 2017 He spoke of leaving prison rights abuses, Guatemala Journalist who exposed Trustee the slaughter of Angolans Persecuted journalist and ASG for Human Rights. He began by Civil Courage Prize. Train Foun- twenty-two years ago, after two activist, Belgrade Sumner Gerard III Yassmín Barrios and the plundering of pointing out that dation Co-Chairman George Bid- years of incarceration. He and his Treasurer national assets Sergei Khodorovich Presiding judge in Rios "there is currently dle introduced the honoree and fellow prisoners endured abuse and Charles Berry, Esq. Montt genocide trial, 2005 Min Ko Naing (Honorable Mention) Counsel Guatemala Long-imprisoned Solzhenitsyn collaborator ex- a frightening back- spoke about how the world ur- torture that "motivated us to re- iled to hard labor in Siberia Nina Train campaigner for lash against human gently needs he- flect on how we 2014 Nicola Gratteri Advisor democracy in Burma Pastor Dietrich Relentless prosecutor rights, civil liber- roes like him. might change this Lisa Train of the Italian Mafia Anna Politkovskaya Bonhoeffer† ties, and dignity. Mbonimpa came situation." In Advisor Fearless reporter on Anti-Nazi martyr This is what makes to the podium and 2001, the result C. Bowdoin Train 2013 Dr. Denis Mukwege atrocities in Chechnya, assassinated Judge Giovanni Advisor Physician and advocate for the Civil Courage made his remarks was the creation of Falcone† victims of violence in the Andrew Gilmour Munir Said Thalib† Assassinated while Prize more impor- in French. Dawn APRODH, an or- Civil Courage Prize Advisors Democratic Republic of the Exposed disappearances and Congo prosecuting the Sicilian tant now than it has ever been before." M. Liberi, former ganization with corruption in Indonesia, Mafia Ambassador Glenn R.W. Babb assassinated He recalled lessons he learned in U.S. Ambassador the purpose of Prof. Philip C. Bobbitt 2012 Yu Jie Rosemary Nelson† 2004 school as a member of Amnesty. The first to Burundi, fol- providing "protec- Sir Jeremy Greenstock Author and advocate for Emadeddin Baghi Civil rights lawyer, Imprisoned for exposing was "balance: the need to uphold civil lowed with a tion and promo- Bill Keller reform in China assassinated while assassinations of Iranian in- defending accused persons in courage against both sides in the Cold heartfelt tribute to Pierre Claver Mbonimpa tion for activities Count Aymar de Lastours 2011 tellectuals Northern Ireland Triveni Acharya War. The second was learning how much Baroness Rawlings Defender of victims of her friend for his valiant efforts to within the field of human rights, Lovemore Madhuku Neelan Tiruchelvam† people who defend human rights can irri- Lydia Cacho Ribeiro human trafficking in India Lawyer persecuted for Lawyer and educator, seek justice in his embattled coun- with a special focus on the rights of Grace Kennan Warnecke demanding constitutional killed by a suicide bomber tate other people, either because those try. She spoke of his courage and prisoners." Lydia Cacho Ribeiro Ambassador Frank G. Wisner reform in Zimbabwe while working for solutions others are not that interested in human determination in face of seemingly Mbonimpa went on to say that Champion of abused women to Tamil-Sri Lankan conflict and children in Mexico rights or alternatively because somehow for seventeen years, APRODH, Patrons Abdul al-Latif insurmountable odds and how he al-Mayah† Raoul Wallenberg† along with monitoring torture and 2010 Andrew White Saved thousands of Jews they feel it threatens them." still remained humble despite all of Mrs. Jennifer Coutts Clay Iraqi political scientist and Steadfast advocate for peace human rights advocate, from extermination He spoke about progress; how dicta- the recognition he received. She abuse in prisons and detention cen- Clarence & Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust in the Middle East assassinated † = posthumous tors and even whole oppressive systems then read Mbonimpa's speech in ters, has been "raising awareness Mr. Richard Gilder The Civil Courage Prize honors civil courage—steadfast resistance to evil at great personal were disappearing until 9/11, when "for English. about the national and interna- Founding Patron risk—rather than military valor. The acts so recognized should have taken place deliberately, understandable reasons, a number of gov- He began by addressing "this tional instruments related to over time. ernments decided that the most impor- human rights; fighting against tor- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Nominations for the Prize are solicited primarily from non-profit, non-governmental organizations noble and solemn occasion" on be- worldwide. Further information may be obtained from our website: www.civilcourageprize.org. tant thing to do was to take up the cause half of the members of his organi- ture, sexual violence as well as of counterterrorism." In the process, they zation, APRODH, as well as other forms of gender-based vio- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” committed "immense violations of himself, and expressed delight to lence; and providing advocacy and —Edmund Burke human rights and also, under the guise of be included among the recipients. legal aid for victims of grave gov- counter-terrorism, managed to create way Mbonimpa went on to say, ernmental oppression." The Train Foundation Tel: 212.888.5959 Civil Courage News more terrorists than there were before 505 Park Avenue Fax: 212.888.4018 "We must all recognize that there He stated that "denouncing in- Journal of the Civil Courage Prize 20th Floor www.civilcourageprize.org they started." He recounted the killing, is no endeavor without risk, and justice and cases of grave human New York, NY 10022 torturing, and imprisonment of thousands that the career I have chosen as a rights violations has always been continued on page 2 continued on page 2 Page 4 January 2018 Newsetter 2018 Draft_TF - Civil Courage Newsletter 1/22/2018 6:37 PM Page 2 Mbonimpa Seeks Justice For Burundians Gilmour's Keynote Speech on Civil Courage continued from page 1 continued from page 1 2017 Civil Courage Prize Reception and Ceremony our primary focus." of people, many of whom had nothing to do with ter- He paid the price for his advo- rorism, and how systematic discrimination and regular cacy by serving another 140 days brutal human rights abuses created resentment in prison in 2014, and barely es- "among the very groups who they should have been caping a 2015 assassination at- working closely with to stop acts of terrorism." There tempt by a man who was later was a violent backlash against human rights and the identified as part of Burundi's Na- "alarming rise of far right-wing parties." tional Intelligence Service. He has His speech focused on how necessary civil courage no doubt that the man was sent "to is at this time and he cited examples of people who silence me once and for all." After made a difference. He spoke about how deeply moving Amb. Dawn M. Liberi and Pierre Claver Mbonimpa the attack, he was evacuated to it was to see that after the U.S. Muslim ban was issued 1 1 23 Brussels to save his life and has remained there, continu- while passengers were in the air, in "an incredible act," ing "to pursue this fight resisting governmental evil in Bu- thousands of Americans flocked to international air- rundi." ports to ensure that the arriving refugees would receive Mbonimpa described the root cause of the present-day support and legal advice. In another example, he spoke social and political turmoil in Burundi, which started in of a "great act of civil courage [when] a racist thug 2015, due to the President's "expressed intent to serve for started abusing two young Muslim girls [and] three a third term: a violation of their constitution, despite op- men went up to him to stop it." Two of them were position from Congress, 80% of which is composed by the killed. ruling party." There were mostly peaceful demonstrations Civil courage is also necessary, he said, because from the opposition, civil society groups and political of- "what we are seeing around the world today is an an- ficials, many of which were violently repressed by the po- tagonistic nationalism, and a cheap populism," which lice and armed militias, along with persecution of those seeks out victims from society's most vulnerable who opposed the President.
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