Arakan News Agency
It is unfortunate that under the rules of the Nobel Foundation there is no provision for the appeal of an award or for it to be withdrawn later.
And it is highly unlikely that the Foundation will change the rules established in 1895, however archaic they now may be.
I say unfortunate, because if there was a case for the stripping of a Nobel Laureate, it would go to Aung San Suu Kyi
By both her passivity and refusal to champion the Rohingya, and by her active antagonism to the situation by saying that they are not Rohingya but illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, “The Lady” has stood by and been complicit in inhuman atrocities against them, particularly in Rakhine State, where entire villages have been razed, people killed, women raped, and whole communities forcibly relocated.
She has proven herself to be an idol with feet of clay and obviously heavily beholden to the still all-powerful military, who in reality still call the shots, no matter what “democratic” window dressing it wants the Western world to believe.
David Brown
Source : The Nation
