Nobel Peace Prize Hume died Northern Irish politician

Nobel Peace Prize Hume dies Northern Irish politician August 3 22:11

John Hume, a Northern Irish politician who has won the Nobel Peace Prize, has died, contributing to peace in Northern Ireland in Britain, where the Catholic and Protestant populations have long been in conflict. I was 83 years old.

In Northern Ireland, the conflict between Catholic and Protestant inhabitants continued in the 1960s and 1990s over the prosperity of its separation from Britain, killing more than 3,000 people.

Hume, as the chairman of the moderate Democratic Labor Party, the Social Democratic Labor Party, focused on ending the conflict, and in 1998 signed a peace agreement between Britain and Ireland that entrusted the residents with the will of Northern Ireland. Connected

Hume was highly commended for his contribution to the agreement and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 in collaboration with David Trimble, the first Prime Minister of the Autonomous Government.

According to the British public broadcaster BBC, Mr. Hume died on the 3rd in a nursing home in Londonderry, north of his hometown.

I was 83 years old.

Blair, the British prime minister at the time of the 1998 peace agreement, issued a statement on the 3rd, mourning his death, saying, "Hume was a great politician who refused to follow the same path as the past." It was