'Profoundly dismayed': Amnesty strips Suu Kyi of top honour

[T-Rex]

'Profoundly dismayed': Amnesty strips Suu Kyi of top honour
Rights group withdraws top award over Myanmar's leader 'indifference' to the plight of the Rohingya.

Once hailed as a champion in the fight for democracy, <span>Aung San Suu Kyi</span> has been stripped of a series of international honours [KHAM/AFP Photo]


Amnesty International has stripped Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour over her "indifference" to the atrocities committed by the country's military against the Muslim-majority Rohingya.

The UK-based human rights group on Monday said it was revoking the Ambassador of Conscience Award it gave Aung San Suu Kyi in 2009 during her 15-year house arrest.

"Today, we are profoundly dismayed that you no longer represent a symbol of hope, courage, and the undying defence of human rights," Amnesty chief Kumi Naidoo said in a letter to Aung San Suu Kyi released by the group.

"Amnesty International cannot justify your continued status as a recipient of the Ambassador of Conscience award and so, with great sadness, we are hereby withdrawing it from you."

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The group said it informed Myanmar's leader of the decision on Sunday. She has so far issued no public response.

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

More than 720,000 Rohingya fled the Buddhist majority's western Rakhine State in a military crackdown since August last year, with most seeking refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh.

Many are believed to have been either murdered or tortured and raped.

Controversial tenure
Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party swept to power in 2015 in a landslide victory ending decades of military rule in the southeast Asian country of around 50 million.

But her tenure has been marred by a failure to speak up for Rohingya, who were driven out of the country by the army in what the United Nations has called an ethnic cleansing campaign.

Aung San Suu Kyi's administration rejected the UN findings as one-sided, and said the military action was engaged in a legitimate operation against armed rebels.

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Last month, the 73-year-old was stripped of her honorary Canadian citizenship over her failure to speak up for the Rohingya.

In March, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum rescinded its top award while other honours, including the freedom of the cities of Dublin and Oxford, England, were also withdrawn.

She has also lost numerous smaller awards from individual universities and local and regional governments.

In 1991, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, which many of her critics have also called to be withdrawn. The Swedish foundation that oversees the award has refused.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018...trips-suu-kyi-top-honour-181112180653318.html

 

[T-Rex]

She is now a terror godmother.

 

[艹艹艹]

She did not become a puppet of western hegemony, she was deeply loved by the people of myanmar.

 

[KAMDEV]

'Profoundly dismayed': Amnesty strips Suu Kyi of top honour
Rights group withdraws top award over Myanmar's leader 'indifference' to the plight of the Rohingya.

Once hailed as a champion in the fight for democracy, <span>Aung San Suu Kyi</span> has been stripped of a series of international honours [KHAM/AFP Photo]


Amnesty International has stripped Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour over her "indifference" to the atrocities committed by the country's military against the Muslim-majority Rohingya.

The UK-based human rights group on Monday said it was revoking the Ambassador of Conscience Award it gave Aung San Suu Kyi in 2009 during her 15-year house arrest.

"Today, we are profoundly dismayed that you no longer represent a symbol of hope, courage, and the undying defence of human rights," Amnesty chief Kumi Naidoo said in a letter to Aung San Suu Kyi released by the group.

"Amnesty International cannot justify your continued status as a recipient of the Ambassador of Conscience award and so, with great sadness, we are hereby withdrawing it from you."

READ MORE
Myanmar refugees return to relative peace, but few resources
The group said it informed Myanmar's leader of the decision on Sunday. She has so far issued no public response.

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

More than 720,000 Rohingya fled the Buddhist majority's western Rakhine State in a military crackdown since August last year, with most seeking refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh.

Many are believed to have been either murdered or tortured and raped.

Controversial tenure
Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party swept to power in 2015 in a landslide victory ending decades of military rule in the southeast Asian country of around 50 million.

But her tenure has been marred by a failure to speak up for Rohingya, who were driven out of the country by the army in what the United Nations has called an ethnic cleansing campaign.

Aung San Suu Kyi's administration rejected the UN findings as one-sided, and said the military action was engaged in a legitimate operation against armed rebels.

READ MORE
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Last month, the 73-year-old was stripped of her honorary Canadian citizenship over her failure to speak up for the Rohingya.

In March, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum rescinded its top award while other honours, including the freedom of the cities of Dublin and Oxford, England, were also withdrawn.

She has also lost numerous smaller awards from individual universities and local and regional governments.

In 1991, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, which many of her critics have also called to be withdrawn. The Swedish foundation that oversees the award has refused.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018...trips-suu-kyi-top-honour-181112180653318.html

better .

 

[padamchen]

This part of the world has a habit of throwing up women with balls of steel.

Cheers, Doc

 

[Sineva]

She really blotted her copy book and no mistake,I do not think history will look too kindly on her.
At one point she was seen as someone in much the same league as nelson mandela,now she as seen as someone who condones mass murder and ethnic cleansing.....how the mighty have fallen.
I suspect that she may also be stripped of her nobel prize at some point,and rightly so too.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

This women is more dangerous than hardline Burmese Buddhist monks who frequently steer anti-muslim violence. At least those monks are honest in their approach and do not wear fake grab of moral leadership. This woman deceived the world with her sweet talk about human rights, equality, minority rights, non-violence etc..etc.. for over 40 years to garner global sympathy. But turn out to be a heinous apologetic of criminal junta's all the crimes committed once she rose to power. This woman is no different than a lot of maggot-politician around the world.

 

[Death Professor]

what about nobel peace prize????

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

That's what she gets for being an American puppet. At least she did not end up like Saddam.

 

[Cash GK]

She did not become a puppet of western hegemony, she was deeply loved by the people of myanmar.

it is because she killing muslims. if she kills some chines. i think then you will say something different. i was not expecting this from you.

what about nobel peace prize????

nobel is only for those who go against muslims. it has one particular part to fulfill. they will not cancel her nobel prize

 

[艹艹艹]

it is because she killing muslims. if she kills some chines. i think then you will say something different. i was not expecting this from you.

Keep your mouth shut, muslims have slaughtered large Numbers of overseas Chinese in southeast Asia.

 

[Cash GK]

Keep your mouth shut, muslims have slaughtered large Numbers of overseas Chinese in southeast Asia.

she is killing people and you bich face saying she got so much love from his bich.. you want to be super power without pakistan and muslims you can not achieve this . batter fix your thoughts you stupid.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

it is because she killing muslims. if she kills some chines. i think then you will say something different. i was not expecting this from you.

Have you heard of the Kokang?

 

[bluesky]

12:00 AM, November 13, 2018 / LAST MODIFIED: 11:21 AM, November 13, 2018
Suu Kyi stripped of Amnesty honour

Diplomatic Correspondent

The Amnesty International has stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour, the latest of several honours taken away from her since last year's brutal military crackdown on the Rohingyas.

This is the eighth honour that the former Nobel peace prizewinner has been stripped of over the past year, with Amnesty following the example of Canada, US Holocaust Museum, UK's Edinburgh, Oxford, Glasgow and Newcastle and Canada's Carleton Universities which also revoked Suu Kyi's honorary degrees and awards.

The long-celebrated Nobel Laureate was given Amnesty's most prestigious honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2009 marking the 20th anniversary of her arrest and 20 years since it declared her a prisoner of conscience.

The AI yesterday announced withdrawal of its highest honour from Suu Kyi in light of the Myanmar leader's shameful betrayal of the values she once stood for.

A United Nations fact-finding mission has recently concluded that Myanmar military was committing genocide against the Rohingyas and other ethnic minorities and that Suu Kyi failed in her duty to protect her own citizens.

According to a press statement of the rights organisation, Amnesty International's Secretary General Kumi Naidoo wrote to Suu Kyi on November 11 to inform her of their decision.

Naidoo expressed the organisation's disappointment that Suu Kyi had not used her political and moral authority to safeguard human rights, justice or equality in Myanmar, citing her apparent indifference to atrocities committed by the Myanmar military and increasing intolerance of freedom of expression.

“As an Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience, our expectation was that you would continue to use your moral authority to speak out against injustice wherever you saw it, not least within Myanmar itself,” wrote Kumi Naidoo.

“Today, we are profoundly dismayed that you no longer represent a symbol of hope, courage, and the undying defence of human rights. Amnesty International cannot justify your continued status as a recipient of the Ambassador of Conscience award and so with great sadness we are hereby withdrawing it from you.”

Since Suu Kyi became the de facto leader of Myanmar's civilian-led government in April 2016, her administration has been actively involved in the commission or perpetuation of multiple human rights violations, the Amnesty press release said.

“Aung San Suu Kyi's failure to speak out for the Rohingyas is one reason why we can no longer justify her status as an Ambassador of Conscience,” said Kumi Naidoo.

 

[war&peace]

Excellent the bitch didn't deserve those anyway..