Nobel Peace Prize

With the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize due to be announced next week (Oct 6), the controversies that swirled around former winners have resurfaced. Some have been accused of human rights abuses, others of going on to either start or escalate wars.

Pro-Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi sits at the window of her residence during an interview in Rangoon, Burma on Friday, July 12, 1996. Source: AP