A Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in 2012 in a speech delivered in Norway said

SUFFERING degrades and embitters and enrages but it seems that her point of
view has changed now and she is administering the killings of Rohengia Mislims in
Burma.

Recently a UN official for Human Rights called this act of mass killing a textbook
example of ethnic cleansing. Suu Kyi and her ministry, however, stayed quiet. If they
did speak it was to push the propaganda that the Rohingya, almost 400,000 of whom
are now fleeing to save their lives, were burning their own homes. Surely, the
heartrending accounts of children being killed, of fleeing peasants being shot, of
everyone running, of villages burning, can, regardless of political posturing, have
some effect on the human soul.

Aung San Suu Kyi is a woman who once endured with great patience and fortitude
years of house arrest, who refused to capitulate to the junta that imprisoned her.
Even when her husband was dying abroad, Aung San Suu Kyi did not leave Myanmar.
But now her government is killing the Muslims of Burma.

Other Nobel laureates including Malala Yousufzai condemned this act by the
government of Burman as it is duty of all Nobel prize for peace winners to speak on
such brutal and unjust acts. Being honored with a peace prize is meant to impute a
certain moral standard, some moral duty to speak when others are undergoing the
sufferings.

The principle comes first for those who make a statement of fortitude, and sticking
to it requires no small sum of ruthlessness, no regular allotment of egotism. Suu Kyi,
who belongs to the political elite of her country, possessed all of this. The
determination with which she refused to capitulate to her oppressors then, is now
the material of her refusal to have mercy, to impose the suffering that degrades,
embitters and enrages. She is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is devoid of nobility of
character. Only a woman who believes she is important, imagines her stand, her
position, herself as the emblem of her nation. An emblem of suffering then, she is
now an emblem of silence, of complicity and of cruelty.

What worked so well for Suu Kyi, her adoption as the darling of the West, the frail
and luminous woman whose stand was so courageous and made her so famous, no
longer works. With all hands dirty, rich countries watching and turning away as
innocents die trying to reach their shores, with poor countries shrugging and looking
away as mobs burn villages and lynch minorities, no one is good and so everyone is
quiet.

The Nobel Prize, the awarding or even the revoking of it, cannot cure that. The
massacre of the Rohingya will not stop. The Nobel laureate who pretended to speak
for justice will not intervene on their behalf, nor will she stop the massacre.