Aurora Prize Co-Chairs George Clooney and Elie Wiesel Join Selection Committee in Congratulating Finalists for Inaugural Award
On March 15, the Aurora Prize Selection Committee announced the four Aurora Prize finalists: Marguerite Barankitse, from Maison Shalom and REMA Hospital in Burundi; Dr. Tom Catena, from Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan; Syeda Ghulam Fatima, the general secretary of the Bonded Labor Liberation Front in Pakistan; and Father Bernard Kinvi, a Catholic
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Good initiative indeed. In December 1992, an American State Department Security Officer, Mr Lawrence N. Freedman, has died in Bardera, Somalia after a landmine explosion under the truck he was traveling in. He died while working for US-led Joint Military operation (UNITAF) that brought relief to Somalia devastating man-made famine in December 1992. His death saved the lives of thousands of Somali civilians that were dying of hunger and bullet then, at the rate of over 1000/daily deaths. This intervention has saved Somalia and remains amongst the greatest moments
Please consider Freedman for such a noble prize so that his death for saving other should not go unrecognized.