tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post1933123500604183758..comments2024-02-14T04:53:18.295-08:00Comments on Singapore Dissident: Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew's American honor is not worth much.Gopalan Nairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-13051908543482689492009-11-01T01:00:34.080-08:002009-11-01T01:00:34.080-08:00The value of this 'lifetime achievement' a...The value of this 'lifetime achievement' award given to Harry Lee Kuan Yew by a consortium of you-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours self-serving businessmen pales to insignificance beside the honor paid by the world to a certain remarkable prisoner who never forgot her people's suffering and who has sacrificed her all for them. I know whom I would walk over broken glass for and it certainly isn't the one whose cynical support has kept the junta in business till this very day.<br /><br /><b><i>"The United States House of Representatives awarded Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi the Congressional Gold Medal, bestowed to only a few prominent people, including Mother Theresa, Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King Jr, Robert Frost and Elie Wiesel. It remains the highest civilian award in the United States.<br /><br />Aung San Suu Kyi was also given the honorary citizenship of Canada by the Canadian Parliament, the highest civilian award in Canada. She was only the fourth person in Canada’s history to receive this award.<br /><br />Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991."</i></b><br /><br />Lifetime achievement? Heh. Enough said.<br /><br />Ironically, a certain 'Harry' Lee did also receive the Congressional Gold Medal. That, however, was on September 24, 1779!mycroftnoreply@blogger.com