Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean President gets China’s Confucius peace prize dubbed China’s Nobel peace prize, for supposedly “injecting fresh energy” into the global quest for harmony.
Mr. Mugabe, who has been accused of using systematic violence and torture to maintain his 35-year grip on power, recently became the latest recipient of China’s Confucius peace prize.
The Beijing-run Global Times newspaper said 91-year-old Mugabe had beaten off competition from candidates including the Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, and the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye.
