Why Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize Won’t Be Revoked<br />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<br />that has caused thousands of Muslim refugees to flee across the border to Bangladesh.<br />The world is waiting and the Rohingya Muslims are waiting.”<br />Last year, several Nobel laureates — including Ms. Yousafzai, Desmond Tutu<br />and 11 other recipients — signed an open letter that “warned of the potential for genocide.”<br />“By far the worst thing that I’ve ever seen.” reporter Hannah Beech describes a huge exodus of<br />civilians into Bangladesh after a new military offensive against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.<br />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<br />that the Rohingya are illegally squatting inside Myanmar.<br />In Jakarta, Indonesia, protesters burned photos of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi and lobbed a gasoline bomb at the Myanmar Embassy.<br />Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is not the first Nobel laureate to stir controversy.<br />Their plight has drawn increased attention — and renewed criticism — from many people around the world, including other Nobel Peace Prize laureates.<br />“I am still waiting for my fellow Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do the same.
