City of London to strip Suu Kyi of award

FE Team | Published: September 15, 2019 23:24:42

LONDON, Sept 15 (bdnews24.com): The City of London Corporation in the United Kingdom has suspended its 2017 honorary freedom award bestowed on Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to the local media.
The Myanmar leader received the award in May 2017, in recognition of her "non-violent struggle over many years for democracy and her steadfast dedication to creating a society where people can live in peace, security and freedom, reports The Irrawady.
But the leader faced widespread criticism from the international community for not being outspoken enough for humanitarian rights, following the incidents in August 2017 in Rakhine State's Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships, which caused mass displacement of more than 700,000 Rohingya during the military's clearance operations.
Last November, Amnesty International revoked its most prestigious human rights prize, and the Canadian parliament stripped her honorary citizenship in September 2018.
In March last year, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum rescinded its top human rights award, which was granted in 2012. The freedom of the cities of Dublin, Oxford and Edinburgh were withdrawn amid accusations that she failed to intervene in the Rohingya crisis.