Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever peace prize winner, said on Monday “the world is waiting” for Aung San Suu Kyi to act. I am still waiting for my fellow Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do the same”. A Change.org petition to revoke Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel peace prize had reached 377,332 signatures by Friday. On Thursday, Aung San Suu Kyi made her first spoken remarks on the crisis in Rakhine since government crackdowns began last month. On Friday, Tutu used his open letter to urge Aung San Suu Kyi to intervene and speak out.

Source: The Guardian September 08, 2017 01:45 UTC