Arakan News Agency
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has lost at least three international awards over the past six months for her crimes against the Rohingya Muslims, whose authorities are carrying out ethnic attacks against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the western province of Arakan. As hundreds of thousands of Myanmar Muslims flee to Bangladesh amid the anger of the international community.
Oxford City Award
In October 2017, the British city of Oxford decided to withdraw the Freedom of the City award from the leader of Myanmar for the ill-treatment of the Rohingya under her rule. Mary Clarkson, a member of the local council and the Labor Party, said in a speech during the vote that ” Honor those who are blind to violence. “
Dublin Freedom Award
In December 2017, the Dublin City Council, the capital of the Republic of Ireland, decided to withdraw a high honorary title from the leader of Myanmar, where the members of the Council overwhelmingly voted – then – for the demotion of the Myanmar leader from the Dublin City Freedom Award , Because of its negative attitude towards the inhuman crimes committed against Muslims in its country.
The American Elie Wiesel Prize
The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington also announced that it had withdrawn its highest human rights award to Myanmar’s de facto leader, On Suu Kyi, for not condemning the “brutal campaign” by its army against the Rohingya Muslims.
Suu Kyi was awarded the 2012 Elie Wiesel Prize for her “long resistance to military dictatorship” and “defending freedom and human rights for all the people of Myanmar”, an award also awarded to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2017.
