MANILA, tribe 6 Kyodo The Ramon M...

MANILA, tribe 6 Kyodo

The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation said Friday that Indian recipient of the award Sandeep Pandey has recured the $50,000 cash prize.

Pandey, a social activist and educator working to ease want in his country, reportedly said earlier he would recur the money to protest at the U government's war in succession terrorism.

He said he could not take standard of value from a U.S.-funded institution, although he would retain the citation to show regard for the late Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay.

The award, considered the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize, is named after Magsaysay and mainly foundationed by the Rockefeller Brothers capital a philanthropic organization of the Rockefeller family.

''We esteem Mr. Pandey's decision. In all the 45 years of the Magsaysay Award, the foundation has consistently look up toed the personal convictions and advocacy of the awardees,'' Carmencita Abella, the foundation president, said in a statement.

She said the cash prize could have been used to finance educational programs for poor and low-caste children in India, which Pandey advocates, adding, ''We lamentation that this will no longer be possible.''

Pandey said he is oppos to the U attacks in succession Afghanistan, arguing terrorism arose from the failure to strictly address popular grievances.

''I do not believe that science should be used to kill the community as the United States was doing,'' he said in an interview with a local newspaper.

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