Honorary citizenship of Aung San Suu Kyi revoked by Canada
World | October 03, 2018 11:02 ISTAung San Suu Kyi is the first person to be removed from her honorary Canadian citizenship.
Aung San Suu Kyi is the first person to be removed from her honorary Canadian citizenship.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who is on a two-day Myanmar visit met the country's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw on Friday.
More than 688,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Rakhine State to neighbouring Bangladesh since August 2017, after the Myanmar Army launched a military offensive following attacks on multiple government posts by Rohingya rebels.
The council motion was supported unanimously on Monday evening and cited Suu Kyi’s inaction as Rohingya Muslims are subjected to a crackdown being described by the UN and others as textbook ethnic cleansing.
More than half a million members of the Rohingya Muslim minority have fled to Bangladesh since the start of a military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine state on August 25.
Students at the Oxford college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied have voted to remove her name from the title of their junior common room because of her response to the Rohingya crisis.
The 'Freedom of Oxford' had been granted to the de facto leader of Myanmar in 1997 for her "long struggle for democracy" by the Oxford City Council.
The governing body of St Hugh's college, one of the University of Oxford's constituent colleges, decided to remove the painting of the Nobel laureate from its main entrance.
"It was an encouraging address and contained a very positive message," India's Ambassador to Myanmar Vikram Misri said.
Suu Kyi is under mounting international pressure to stop the alleged human rights violations against the Rohingyas, who are denied citizenship in Myanmar.
Prime Minister Modi's visit to Myanmar comes amid a spike in ethnic violence with Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine state
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