U.S. Adviser Rebukes Aung San Suu Kyi: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Part of a Whitewash’

Once again, we see that placing women in positions of power is in no way a safeguard against abuses of public trust and human rights. It is not that women are not capable of being great and admirable leaders, it is that they are just as capable as men of being cruel, bigoted, and self serving.

I am proud of Bill Richardson for taking a principled stand and speaking the unpleasant truth about an old friend who seems to have strayed from the path. Giving up his position when he determined that he was contributing to corruption was the right thing to do. It is unfortunate that there are so few American leaders -- female or male -- who could be counted on to do the same. That being so, it is important to show our support for each and every one of them when they demonstrate what sets them apart from unimpressive herd.

Don't know if it has ever been done but there should be a movement to revoke her Nobel prize.

Still awaiting the day when she gets her Nobel prize revoked and serves time for being complicit in the biggest contemporary ethnic cleansing in South East Asia

Unlike Nikki Haley, who is a staunch anti-Muslim, Hindu, Richardson is the most honest hard working & fair Political leader I have followed for many years. He is not biased, not afraid to speak the truth and is a very noble of a man in this world. No I have never met him or I am related to him in any way or form. In fact he should be the man to replace this Muslim-hating Nikki to resolve the Palestinian issue fairly, can you hear me Mr. Trump?

Bill Richardson for President. Now.

I volunteered for Richardson's presidential campaign back in 2008. I have followed his diplomatic troubleshooting for years. I still think Obama should have chosen him to be Sec. of State instead of Hillary. He was - and is -
eminently more qualified. And he is not afraid to take a strong stand in support of human rights, a trait sorely lacking in today's international leadership.

Bill Richardson, you have proven yourself to be an intelligent, brave and truly good man. A rare combination in the world of politics.

What’s it called “ Stockholm syndrome“? Should we excuse ms. Aung San Suu Kyi for being afflicted with this? It seems like she might be in control while being aligned with the military. Is there anything in this world that is not more atrocious? maybe you can take the Nobel prize back, but you can’t clawback the money, which would probably make more sense, As a punitive measure

Good for Richardson. Never allow yourself to be used as a fig leaf for evil. My hope is that his leaving will indeed shatter the board's credibility and leave her and her rationalizations out in the chilly winds with nary a stitch of clothing.

Geez seriously. Her character and priorities were clear when she abandoned her husband and two sons to be the iconic *martyr* for her country.

She is a general*s child. Her sympathy for the common people is nil.

Me? I was sayin* this years ago. But I ain*t on no prize committees.

Governor Richardson, please run for president in 2020. Our country desperately needs this kind of moral leadership. The rest of the world needs it too.

Boy, were we ever sold a bill of goods on all that "the Lady" business leading to her Noble Peace Prize, huh? As much as I like Obama, he was a big contributor to her getting visibility that it now seems she can't live up to. Thanks Bill for standing up!

This is why women should not be trusted in such positions of national leadership. Yulia Tymoshenko came out of prison mean and deadly and said Ukrainians should start killing Russians, before the civil war in the east broke out.
People have a tendency to make naive assumptions about the fair sex. Maybe it's their cultivated sense of entitled righteous indignation that is stirred up by women's liberation movements. Maybe it's their lack of experience, or maybe it's their habit of using feminine charms to get their way and influence stupid men. When they reach the national stage they discover problems have no sex and the old, traditional tricks don't work anymore.

Good for you, Gov. Now the Noble Committee should definitely rescind her Peace Prize.

She is undoubtedly under threat of being imprisoned again or certain death if she stakes out more realistic positions that runs counter to the military.

She's become a puppet.
Window dressing for the dictatorial generals who pull the strings.

I bet she lives in constant fear.

When is the most renowned Nobel Peace Prize winner, former President Barack Obama, going to condemn Aung San Suu Kyi? Remember, he was the first U.S. sitting president to visit Burma back in 2012? And during that historic trip, he lauded both his fellow Nobel laureate and Thein Sein (the former military general/war criminal and president of Burma at the time). President Obama's silence is shameful.

Kofi Annan, when he was U. N. Secretary General, was responsible for the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsis. He should not be on any panel investigating human rights abuses, or in public life at all.

So, sadly, she's a liar, too. Anything for power, and the status quo. She should give back the Nobel Prize, since she is assisting the genocide of the Rohyngya.

The Myanmar government is being selfish & short-sighted in brutalizing the pacifist Muslim Rohingya, since Myanmar's genocidal policies may inevitably lead to some traumatized Rohingya into becoming ISIS-style international terrorist tools!
Think, for instance, of how the 1990s-era Serbian Orthodox Christian ultra-nationalists' systematic slaughter & rape of Muslim-descent Slavs sadly contributes to the compelling terrorist recruitment narrative of the world's Muslims of any color, political system, etc. (ex. Slavs, Chechens, etc.) being targeted for extermination, and thus needing to preemptively "defend" themselves through global terrorism.
Myanmar being in Southeast Asia also immediately puts in neighbors like Indonesia (the world's most populous Muslim nation dealing w/ its own fundamentalist elements), Malaysia (another Muslim Malay-dominated state), Brunei (a major oil producer & pacifist Muslim monarchy), Singapore (a global financial & IT hub w/ multicultural tolerance), & Philippines (a Christian majority state whose pacifist Muslim minorities have been infiltrated by Arab/Malaysian/Indonesian extremists) at great risk!
Throw Myanmar out of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and impose economic & travel sanctions on it, similar to how we pressured apartheid-era South Africa into releasing the eventual & truly deserving Nobel Peace Prize winner Mandela, to remind Aung San & her racist military regime that their nativist policies are globally damaging!

Mr. Richardson, you may have been right the first time, to call the Tatmadaw psychopaths.

Seems too many a piling on Aung San Suu Kyi and Buddhists and refusing to hear their side. So Rakhine state should be returned to Self-Rule it enjoyed for centuries and then it becomes a Christian vs Muslim issue.

Her courage in confronting the military rule is well established and she is returning her country to democratic rule. But how can anyone ignore the fact that she has no power over the military etc and the general is in charge and waiting to drive a wedge between her and popular support.

In these times I think if I presented the Buddhist viewpoint I will be mobbed!

When a wily veteran of so many diplomatic wars like Mr. Richardson gives up, you know the situation is beyond dire. There is scarcely any hope that the feckless and adrift U.S. foreign policy forces can do much about it having been brutalized by an incompetent and uncaring administration. It's doubtful that our presididn't could locate Myanmar on a map, let alone understand, or care to understand the historical, political, and religious forces at work in this looming disaster. Now what?

Mr. Richardson has always been a diplomat of skill and courage. I don't believe that he would resign this group unless his assessment were as accurate as it is disturbing.
I am left wondering whether there is any precedent or established means for withdrawing a Nobel prize.

Regardless of Ms. San Suu Kxi's reputation and past political hardships, she is as close to being Myanmar's legitimate leader as she will be and she knows it. International sanctions should return until the Myanmar government and ruling military agree on a plan for the Rohingya including repatriation and inclusion in the country as a whole.

It's a shame that Myanmar is killing their own citizens and banished about 700,000 to Bangladesh by cruel uprooting methods. I sense the people of Myanmar are supportive of the military killings orchestrated by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and STRONGLY supported by Aung San Suu Kyi .
I applaud the courageous Bill Richardson for speaking the truth about Myanmar Govt implicit behavior. If they have nothing to hide why to date they have not allowed any international human rights organizations including the UN to the Rakhine State?
The world still has not taken any substantial steps to resolve the issue. Global sanctions ought to be placed on Myanmar.

Our fault for putting Aung San Suu Kyi on a pedestal. She has truly let the world down.

Her Nobel Peace Prize should be revoked.

I've been to Myanmar twice in the last 13 months. Not going back. Lovely temples, many nuns and monks, much history. The majority of the people I spoke to are nationalists. They call themselves Buddhists but are not. When it comes to the Rohingya their hearts are stone.

The old saying goes "If you can't beat them, join them". Ms. Above The President very much beat the Myanmar tyrants at their political game, but decided to join them in their iron-fisted genocidal rule anyway. It's disgusting and sad that an icon of democratic struggle has become its greatest setback. She's voluntarily gone above and beyond merely being handcuffed by the junta's mandated greater share of rule, to being complicit in their hate of the Rohingya and outright denying the genocide. She may as well don their fatigues and guns while at it.