Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday Oct 07,2016 in a surprise choice after Colombians voted "No" to an agreement he signed with Marxist rebels to end 52 years of war.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has promised to revive the peace plan even though Colombians, in a referendum on Sunday, narrowly rejected the accord. Many voters believed it was too lenient on the FARC guerrillas
"The award should also be seen as a tribute to the Colombian people," committee leader Kaci Kullmann Five said when announcing the prize.
Voters did not say "No" to peace but to the agreement, she said.
The award pointedly excluded FARC guerrilla leader Rodrigo Londono, better known by his nom de guerre Timochenko, who signed the deal with Santos.
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1)The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 8 million Swedish crowns ($930,000), will be presented in Oslo on December 10,2016
2)96 Nobel Peace Prizes awarded between 1901-2015
4)62 average age of laureates when they were awarded the priz
5)17 the age of Malala Yousafzai when she won the prize in 2014
6)3 laureates were under arrest at the time of the award: Carl von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi & Liu Xiaobo
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