AUNG SAN SUU KYI OF MYANMAR HAS BEEN STRIPPED OF HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD.

Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar who was accused of not intervening while the Rohingya population suffer has been stripped of human rights award. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum announced recently that it was cancelling the prestigious Elie Wiesel Award given to Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar in 2012 because she had failed to intervene in the ethnic cleansing of the minority Rohingya population in Rakhine State of the country. Also in November last year, Aung San Suu Kyi was stripped of the Freedom of the City of Oxford award given to her in 1997 for her opposition to oppression and military rule in Burma. Her portrait in the college (Oxford University’s St Hugh’s College) has since been removed. Myanmar government has reacted, saying that stripping of a prestigious human rights award from de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi showed that the awarding institutions were misled and exploited. Since 2016, the Rohingya crisis began, more than 688,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar and thousands killed.