And Gandhi Never Got One

YEAR -

1994

WINNER(S)

Yitzhak Rabin

REASON FOR PRIZE

Israeli PM agreed to peace with Arafat

Background: as Defense Minister, Rabin oversaw a brutal policy to suppress the Palestinian intifadeh, granting soldiers the right to break bones.

YEAR

1978

WINNER(S)

Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin

REASON FOR PRIZE

Signing Jimmy Carter's Camp David Accord

Background: in 1973 Sadat launched the October War. Total dead: 16,000. As Irgun commander, Begin participated in the 1946 terrorist bombing of the King David Hotel.

YEAR

1973

WINNER(S)

Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho

REASON FOR PRIZE

The agreement leading to the withdrawal of American Forces from Southeast Asia (Tho refused his prize)

Background: Kissinger and Tho played key roles in the prosecution of the war in Indochina. Total dead between 1965 and 1975: more than 2 million.

YEAR

1906

WINNER(S)

T. Roosevelt

REASON FOR PRIZE

Arranging Russian-Japanese peace

Background: as Vice President and President, Roosevelt promoted imperial adventures like the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection. Total dead: more than 205,000.