Why Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize Won’t Be Revoked
HONG KONG — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of Myanmar and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who once embodied her country’s fight for democracy, came under increased pressure on Monday to denounce a military operation
that has caused thousands of Muslim refugees to flee across the border to Bangladesh.
The world is waiting and the Rohingya Muslims are waiting.”
Last year, several Nobel laureates — including Ms. Yousafzai, Desmond Tutu
and 11 other recipients — signed an open letter that “warned of the potential for genocide.”
“By far the worst thing that I’ve ever seen.” reporter Hannah Beech describes a huge exodus of
civilians into Bangladesh after a new military offensive against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has been conspicuously silent on the Rohingya issue, and when pressed by reporters, she has toed the military’s official line, which contends
that the Rohingya are illegally squatting inside Myanmar.
In Jakarta, Indonesia, protesters burned photos of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi and lobbed a gasoline bomb at the Myanmar Embassy.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is not the first Nobel laureate to stir controversy.
Their plight has drawn increased attention — and renewed criticism — from many people around the world, including other Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
“I am still waiting for my fellow Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do the same.