Li Xiaobo is a Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for political reforms and the end of communist one-party rule in the People's Republic of China(PRC) and is currently incarcerated because of it... This angered China, host of the Miss World 2010... and that people believe that cost that year's Norway's representative Mariann Birkedal... she was the favorite to win the crown...
Also last year, Vietnam was supposed to host the pageant... they were suppose to build a tourism site in Nha Trang for the pageant... but it led to a public debate about some national ecological reserves being devastated and people having to leave their homes due to increasing living costs and that ultimately making Vietnam back out on hosting the pageant...
The London based Miss World Beauty Pageant have been riddled with controversies since Eric Morley Started it in 1951 and even after his death and his wife, Julia Morley taking over...
In 1973, Evangeline Luis Pascual, the Philippines representative was named 1st princess/runner up, our highest placement on the pageant, never equal... The crown went to Marjorie Wallace of the USA, who after just over a hundred day after being crown was sacked, citing she failed to fulfill the basic requirement of the job... As per Evangeline Pascual, she turned down the crown when it was offered to her because she was already busy with other commitments... But Pageant officials would later say that a decision was made by the Miss World organization to not offer the title to any of the runners-up. Thus, the Marjorie Wallace remains as the official Miss World of 1973...
But that is nothing compared when Bangalore, India hosted the pageant in 1996... Under the leadership of Bangalore’s police commissioner, over 12,500 law enforcement personnel including Central Armed Reserve Force soldiers, seven divisions of the elite Rapid Action Force, two all-women police platoons, and a bomb fighting squad created a thick blanket of security for the pageant. To unpack the puzzling question of why a formidable array of state security personnel would be stationed at a seemingly banal entertainment event, media scholars would have to shift their attention from the orchestrated order of Miss World’s rehearsed performances to the scenes of disorder that exploded outside the walls of the stadium. Standing a few feet away from a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, CNN correspondent Anita Pratap relayed news of impending suicide protests by conservative women activists who had declared their intentions to sneak into the stadium and burn themselves in order to sabotage Miss World. During the live staging of the contest, activists also blocked traffic, deflated tires of state-owned buses, and threw stones at the doors of the stadium as police fired teargas shells and used lathis (long wooden sticks) to restore order. Journalistic accounts that chronicled these tense climactic moments in the history of Miss World’s arrival in India were only a few pages in the closing chapter of a prolonged tale of debate and controversy that unfolded over several months. Since August 1996, soon after the event management firm
And again, in 2002, Miss World was set to be held in Nigeria when riots broke out because of an article, published by a local Lagos magazine, suggesting Muhammad would have chose a wife from the candidate... the riot killed more 200 people and house of worship being burned... this made the pageant organizer decide to move the pageant to London...
