A commentary on a Nobel peace prize nominee

At the official Nobel prize web page one reads

“The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: /- - -/ one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

(Excerpt from the will of Alfred Nobel)

I put this excerpt, cause the private Bradley Manning is in the list of Nobel Peace Prize nominees.

To put some context, Bradley Manning, is the soldier who starred the scandal of sending classified material of the U.S.A. to the Wikileaks agency (a video of an U.S.A. helicopter  killing civilians and two iraki journalists of the Reuters agency. Also is imputed of sending several compromising docuements concerning the wars at Irak and Afghanistan). Today, private Bradley faces a sentence of 52 years in prison, the imputed charges: treason.

I still wondering how in the world, to worry about innocent human lives is a matter of criminals and traitors, or if Bradley's actions must be qualified as "treason", but my conclusion is always the same. To express my thoughts, I'll borrow a post seen on the official Wikileaks facebook page

The question is not whether Bradley Manning deserves the Nobel Prize. The question is whether the Nobel Prize deserves Bradley Manning.

He probably won't win the prize, and given the conditions, i would consider it as a superficial fact. I really hope that history gives him the reconnaissance that he really deserves, i guess, as a martyr. Perhaps, in some decades, an academic institution gives the Bradley prize on human rights.