What are some of the most controversial Nobel Prize decisions?

 Of all Nobel Prize categories, the Nobel Peace Prize is without a doubt the most controversial. In 1991, a lady named Aung San Suu Kyi won. She was seen as a hero, standing up against the military junta that held her country under its grip… after decades behind bars she helped her nation transition into what was (more or less) a democracy.

When freed, the Nobel Peace Prize winner went on to become Myanmar’s equivalent of a Prime Minister. But the military junta remained an absolute bag of dicks, committing genocide against an ethnic group called the Rohingya. And Aung San Suu Kyi, who had dedicated her entire life to freedom of expression, democracy, fairness… defended the military! She didn’t just ignore the atrocities, no, she went out of her way to defend them, appearing in front of the International Criminal Court to deny wrong-doing of a military that had, at that point, displaced, driven out, imprisoned or killed well over a million Rohingya.

Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the best examples of a controversial Nobel Prize winner. Because the peace and fairness she was believed to stand for, turned out to be a farce in the end. It was like a slave freed from bondage to cynically become a slave owner himself — sometimes in history, heroes aren’t so heroic and villains not as villainous, upon reflection.