Amnesty Revoked Human Rights Award from Aung Suu Kyi

Amnesty International is taking back the most prestigious human rights award from Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday as leader has failed to speak out against atrocities targeting the country’s Rohingya minority.
After the Myanmar military began a crackdown in response to Rohingya insurgent attacks on the security forces, more than 700,000 members of the mostly stateless group fled across Myanmar’s western border into Bangladesh.Myanmar army also dis rape and torture, have burned entire villages in a campaign but she didn’t take care of this.
Suu Kyi’s administration rejected the findings as one-sided, and said the military action was engaged in a legitimate counterinsurgency operation.
“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.” Kumi Naidoo, the secretary general of the human rights group said.
“Today, we are profoundly dismayed that you no longer represent a symbol of hope, courage, and the undying defence of human rights.”
The politician and Nobel peace prize winner received the honour in 2009, when she was living under house arrest. In 2015, she coasted to victory in the presidential election, but because her children were of British descent, she was unable to hold the position under the constitution.
United Nations investigators concluded that, while she was not complicit in the alleged genocide last year, she had failed to use her moral authority to help prevent the murder and rape of thousands of Rohingyas by the still-dominant army.
The U.N. refugee agency said the Rohingya should be allowed to visit their lands in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state so they can decide on their own whether they want to return.Some of her supporters have suggested that Suu Kyi’s support for the attacks on the Rohingya may stem from a desire to maintain a cooperative relationship with Myanmar’s generals.
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