Amnesty International Strips Myanmar's Suu Kyi of 'Conscience' Award

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Amnesty International Strips Myanmar's Suu Kyi of 'Conscience' Award

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only a token gesture and does not to address the situation in Rakhine state.
to BAD THEY WONT pull her Nobel prize as well.
YANGON — Amnesty International has withdrawn its most prestigious human rights prize from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, accusing the Myanmar leader of perpetuating human rights abuses by not speaking out about violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

Once hailed as a champion in the fight for democracy, Suu Kyi has been stripped of a series of international honors over a Rohingya exodus that began in August 2017.

UN-mandated investigators have accused the military of unleashing a campaign of killings, rape and arson with “genocidal intent.”

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s administration rejected the findings as one-sided, and said the military action was engaged in a legitimate counterinsurgency operation.

The international human rights group named Suu Kyi as its 2009 Ambassador of Conscience Award recipient when she was still under house arrest for her opposition to Myanmar’s oppressive military junta.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/am ... award.html

same as Canada withdrawing their honorary citizenship from her in Sept
Canadian lawmakers unanimously agreed to withdraw the honorary citizenship granted to Myanmar President Aung San Suu Kyi in protest at her refusal to condemn the genocide of the Muslim Rohingya minority in her country.
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‘Defending the Indefensible’: Malaysia's Mahathir Slams Suu Kyi over Rohingya Crisis
November 14, 2018
By Reuters 14 November 2018

SINGAPORE — Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday Myanmar’s de facto leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was trying to “defend the indefensible” over alleged atrocities committed by the country’s military against minority Rohingya Muslims.

Asked on the sidelines of a speech he delivered in Singapore to comment on how Myanmar and Suu Kyi had been dealing with the Rohingya issue, Mahathir said: “It would seem that Aung San Suu Kyi is trying to defend what is indefensible.
“They are actually oppressing these people to the point of killing them, mass killing.”

A UN report in August detailed a military crackdown with genocidal intent that began in 2017 and drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Rakhine State into neighboring Bangladesh.

Myanmar has denied most of the allegations in the report. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has previously said her civilian government should not bear all responsibility for the crisis because the military retains a powerful political role under the Constitution.

Southeast Asian nations will call for those responsible for atrocities in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to be held “fully accountable”, according to a statement prepared for a regional summit, reflecting a stronger line being taken within the group.
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Long read:
From peace icon to pariah: Aung San Suu Kyi's fall from grace
Three years after she took power, Myanmar remains as repressive as ever. Were the warning signs there all along?
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen South-east Asia correspondent
Fri 23 Nov 2018 12.19 GMT

There are falls from grace, and then there is Aung San Suu Kyi. In 2015 her election to the post of state counsellor – de facto head of government – was hailed as a sea-change moment for Myanmar.

Three years on, the feted Nobel peace prize winner has become a global pariah at the head of a regime that has excused a genocide, jailed journalists and locked up critics, leaving the international community wringing its hands as Myanmar remains as repressive as ever.

Last week, Amnesty International became the latest organisation to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of a human rights award, citing its “profound disappointment” in her. Just days later, the 700,000 Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar after a brutal military-led campaign of ethnic cleansing in August last year collectively refused to take part in a repatriation plan, due to Myanmar’s failure to ensure they had freedom, rights and safety. Many believe the Myanmar government, which Aung San Suu Kyi leads, has no intention of taking back the Rohingya at all.

“While she has always been a politician, she used to be a politician that stood for democracy and human rights, including freedom of the press,” said Bill Richardson, a US diplomat who has known Aung San Suu Kyi for 25 years. “She has clearly failed to champion these issues since coming to power. Her government has been as enthusiastic about jailing journalists and government critics as the military government that preceded hers.”

Yet there was always a distance between the myth portrayed in the media and the real-life Aung San Suu Kyi. Until her election in 2015, most around the world knew her as “the Lady”, a saintly figure uniquely adored by the west and Burma’s numerous ethnic groups; the articulate, elegant champion of peace and democracy who sacrificed her life and family for her country; the woman who stood on a rickety table outside her Yangon family home-turned-prison to make speeches on equality while under house arrest.

But there was also another Aung San Suu Kyi, one whose leadership style, behind closed doors, always bordered on authoritarian, who from the beginning refused to delegate even the smallest task and was obsessive about controlling every meeting and every message, who was driven not purely by ideology, but a dynastic determination to continue the legacy of her father, Gen Aung San, known as the father of modern-day Myanmar.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... ce-myanmar
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