{"id":46916,"date":"2018-08-31T04:54:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T04:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=46916"},"modified":"2018-08-31T04:54:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T04:54:55","slug":"suu-kyi-wont-be-stripped-of-nobel-peace-prize-despite-rohingya-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=46916","title":{"rendered":"Suu Kyi won’t be stripped of Nobel peace prize despite Rohingya crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"International desk: Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s Nobel peace prize will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said Myanmar\u2019s military carried out mass killings of Muslim Rohingya.<\/p>\n

On Monday, UN investigators said Myanmar\u2019s military carried out killings and gang rapes with \u201cgenocidal intent\u201d, and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for the gravest crimes under international law.<\/p>\n

Aung San Suu Kyi, who leads the Myanmar government and won the Nobel peace prize in 1991 for campaigning for democracy, has been criticised for failing to speak out against the army crackdown in Rakhine state.<\/p>\n

Zeid Ra\u2019ad al Hussein, the UN\u2019s human rights chief, told journalists: \u201cAung San Suu Kyi\u2019s attempts to excuse the crisis were deeply regrettable. She could have stayed silent or even better or she could have resigned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the operation began a year ago, tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have died and 700,000 have fled. Most are living in refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

Myanmar's military must be prosecuted for Rohingya ‘ethnic cleansing', UN told<\/p>\n

Olav Njoelstad, the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said: \u201cIt\u2019s important to remember that a Nobel prize, whether in physics, literature or peace, is awarded for some prize-worthy effort or achievement of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel peace prize for her fight for democracy and freedom up until 1991, the year she was awarded the prize,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The rules regulating the Nobel prizes did not allow for a prize to be withdrawn, he said.<\/p>\n

The Norwegian Nobel committee consists of a panel of five Norwegians, mostly former politicians and academics, reflecting the different forces in the Norwegian parliament. The other Nobel prizes are awarded in Sweden.<\/p>\n

In 2017 the head of the committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, also said it would not strip the award after previous criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s role in the Rohingya crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t do it. It\u2019s not our task to oversee or censor what a laureate does after the prize has been won,\u201d she said. \u201cThe prizewinners themselves have to safeguard their own reputations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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International desk: Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s Nobel peace prize will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said Myanmar\u2019s military carried out mass killings of Muslim Rohingya. On Monday, UN investigators said Myanmar\u2019s military carried out killings and gang rapes with \u201cgenocidal intent\u201d, and the commander-in-chief and five generals should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":46917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n