American deserter receives award from pacifists.

Asked political asylum in Germany, an American deserter Shepherd Andre (Andre Shepherd) was awarded anti-war organization, the American Committee in Munich for World Peace "(Munich American Peace Committee). Reported AFP.
31-year-old Shepherd, refused to return to Iraq for moral reasons, will receive a prize each year to the organization on Feb. 7. What exactly is this award is not specified. Presentation to be held during the protest actions in connection with the opening of the Munich conference on international security. At its head the American delegation to U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden will present approaches to the administration of Barack Obama's foreign policy.
Shepherd, according to the agency, does not appear to receive awards in person because the consideration of its treatment of asylum can not leave the city of Karlsruhe in southwest Germany, where he is at the center to receive refugees. The prize is awarded to him for his public expression of their views, which can "give courage to other soldiers leave the army, and speak for peace."
At a press conference Shepherd stated that he was ashamed of his service when he read and heard about people torn to pieces machine-gun fire and rocket explosions. " The war in Iraq, soldiers are reported at Msnbc.com, felt "completely illegal".
Its base in the southern German Shepherd left the spring of 2007 and proceeded to the run more than a year and a half before you asked the German authorities for asylum. From September 2004 to February 2005, he served in Iraq, a helicopter flight mechanic on the Apache.