Bangladesh, March 4 -- The Nobel Peace Prize is draped in moral grandeur. It is presented as humanitys highest affirmation of fraternity, reconciliation, and moral courage. Its recipients are cast as architects of harmony in a fractured world. Yet history—when examined without sentiment—reveals a pattern that is deeply unsettling. Time and again, when figures from politically fragile or developing states receive this international consecration, their nations soon enter periods of instability, division, or violence.

Is this a coincidence? Or does global recognition sometimes precede national unraveling? The record demands scrutiny.

Myanmar and the collapse of a moral icon

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