Aung Suu Kyi Accepted the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize after a Decade of its Declaration

Nov 28, 2011, 16:34 IST

International Current Affairs. On 16 November 2011 Aung Suu Kyi was finally handed over the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize.

On 16 November 2011 Aung Suu Kyi was finally handed over the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize. Suu Kyi was chosen for the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence in 2002. The Myanmar government did not allow her to accept the award which carries a prize of $ 1,00,000.

At the same ceremony Suu Kyi was proposed to become the Chief Patron of the Madanjeet Singh institute of excellence that would be devoted to Theravada studies, modelled on a similar institute set up in Kashmir for studies of Sufi-Bhakti-Rishi culture.

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