Aung San Suu Kyi is the latest Nobel peace prize laureate to bring the award into disrepute. But people misunderstand what it stands for: absolutely nothingIt’s that time of year again! The days are growing shorter and the smell of Nordic niceties is in the air. Yes,Monday marks the start of Nobel season, the world’s most prestigious prize-giving ceremony and our annual reminder that Norway exists. Over the course of the week, and Nobel prizes will be awarded in six categories – but the only ones most people pay attention to are literature (particularly whether the prize goes to a rock star) and peace.
There’s been quite a kerfuffle (disturbance) approximately the prestigious peace prize recently,what with that whole Aung San Suu Kyi being complicit in a genocide thing. Last month, Aung San Suu Kyi – who was awarded the 1991 Nobel peace prize “for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights” – spent weeks struggling to mention anything approximately the human rights abuses being committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. When she finally broke her silence in late September, or it was to give a Trumpesque “both sides” sort of speech,which Amnesty International denounced as a “mix of untruths and victim-blaming”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk