Suu Kyi’s Absence from Nobel Group’s Anti-Discrimination Plea Due to Ineligibility Burma’s opposition leader and 1991 Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has come under fire in recent months for her apparent reluctance to condemn attacks on Muslims carried out by rioting Buddhists in various towns across the country. The latest mini-furor kicked off last week with the publication by the Nobel Women’s Initiative (NWI) of a letter, signed by 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners, which called for an “immediate end to the violence against Muslims and other ethnic minorities in Burma.” Among the international who’s who of peace promoters who put their names to the exhortation were Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta, microfinance mogul Mohamed Yunus and Iranian political exile Shirin Ebadi. Absent from the list, however, was Burma’s own democracy icon and Nobel winner Suu Kyi, an omission that was quickly picked up on by high-profile human rights advocates and Burma watchers. Read more: bit.ly/12o96Ea
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 23:26:58 +0000
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