Keyword: Dalai Lama

The Human Rights Issue a Nobel Laureate Doesn't Want to Touch

Picture: Aung San Suu Kyi and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Myanmar in February 2013. Tutu has called the condition of Myanmar Michael Sullivan - It’s not often that the Dalai Lama calls out a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate. But that’s what happened at the end of May when he was asked about Aung San Suu Kyi, who has declined to speak out on the worsening plight of the Rohingya minority in her homeland of Myanmar. The Rohingya are Muslims who have lived for generations in mostly Buddhist Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. They are concentrated in the western part of the country, near the border with Bangladesh. They...