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This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Wangari Maathai, a 64-year-old woman from Kenya. Bethell admits to being suspicious of the claims made on her behalf about her founding of the Green Belt Movement in Nairobi, which claimed to enlist poor women to plant millions of trees. Because of her slip regarding the AIDS as a weapon to wipe out the black race, the institutions and the government that praised her have started to take bury her story.
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Nobel Farce
LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK at this year's Nobel Peace Prize. It was awarded to Wangari Maathai, a 64-year-old woman from Kenya, and I admit to being suspicious of the claims made on her behalf. Perhaps an independent-minded reporter can investigate them. We are told that she founded something called the Green Belt Movement in Nairobi in 1977, enlisting poor women to plant millions of trees to combat deforestation....
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