Why Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize Won’t Be Revoked
The world is waiting and the Rohingya Muslims are waiting."
My statement on the #Rohingya crisis in Myanmar: pic.twitter.com/1Pj5U3VdDK 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." Both the open letter and Ms. Yousafzai’s Twitter post were met online by critics of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who blamed her for the crisis and called for her prize to be revoked.
4, 2017
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.
Mr. Stalsett said that A peace prize has never been revoked and the committee does not issue condemnations or censure laureates,
As protests erupted across the region and a fellow peace prize laureate took to Twitter to confront Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, some wondered
whether the Nobel Committee, which conferred the honor on her in 1991, would publicly criticize her or could even revoke the prize.
Their plight has drawn increased attention — and renewed criticism — from many people around the world, including other Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
The Nobel Committee, all Norwegian citizens appointed by the country’s Parliament, has never rescinded a prize
and will not in Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s case either, said Gunnar Stalsett, a former committee member.
Malala Yousafzai said that Over the last several years, I have repeatedly condemned this tragic and shameful treatment,