Norway's Nobel Institute today said that the award given to Aung Sang Suu Kyi in 1991, leader of Myanmar, can not be withdrawn.

Olav Zolstad, the head of the Nobel Institute of Norway, told to Associated Press through an email that neither according to the will of the award's founder Alfred Nobel nor according to the rules of the Nobel Foundation, there is no provision to withdraw the rewards from the recipients.

He said, "Once the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, the award can not be withdrawn from the recipient."

Olav said, "Any award committee from Stockhom and Oslo have not considered taking it back after the award has been given."

Let's say that about 3,86,000 people have demanded to withdraw Nobel Prize from Suu Kyi by signing an online petition regarding the alleged harassment against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Suu Kyi is the supreme leader of Myanmar. They are called State Counselor in Myanmar language.

Here a senior UN representative said that more than a thousand people are expected to be killed in Myanmar's Rakhine province, most of whom are Rohingya Muslim community members.

This number is almost twice the number of government figures. United Nations Special Representative of Human Rights in Myanmar, Yanghi Lee said, "It is possible that at least one thousand people or more people have died. There may be people on both sides, but the bigger number will be Rohingya.

In the past two weeks, 1,64,000 citizens have fled to Myanmar and migrated to Bangladesh refugee camps. Most of these are Rohingya. These camps are already packed with people.

Many others died during the escape in order to avoid violence.

Witnesses said that due to the attacks launched by the Rohingya extremists in a series of ways on August 25, the response of the army started, in which the entire village was burnt.

Rohingya Muslims have faced long periods of discrimination in Buddhist domination Myanmar. Despite living in Myanmar for many generations, they have been deprived of citizenship here and they have been seen as illegal migrants from Bangladesh.

The figures given by Lee are more than the official figures, according to which the total number of dead is 475.

According to new figures released by the authorities on Thursday, Myanmar has been informed that since August 25, till now, 6,600 houses of Rohingya and 201 houses of non-Muslims have been burnt down.

They said that 30 people were killed in this conflict, including seven Rohingya, seven Hindu and 16 Rakhine Buddhists.

Myanmar's army had earlier said that they killed 430 Rohingya terrorists. Officials had told that 15 security personnel were also killed in the August attacks.

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