In 1991, Suu Kyi won the Peace Prize for her nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights. The woman who claimed that esteemed honor and declared, "It is not power that corrupts but fear," later turned her back on her humanitarian courage and those very words. Three decades later, she was back in Europe defending herself, and her Buddhist populists carrying out the violent campaign against the Rohingya people, against charges of genocide.

XREF: Connects to the tension between Buddhist pacifism and ethno-nationalist violence seen in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 656