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Amnesty takes back Aung San Suu Kyi award (Amnesty International (on…
Amnesty takes back Aung San Suu Kyi award
Amnesty International
LONDON
on Monday
stripped Aung San Suu Kyi
of its highest honour
over the de facto Myanmar leader's "indifference
to the atrocities committed by the country's military against Rohingya Muslims.
Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy
or NLD
party swept to power in 2015
in a landslide victory ending decades of military rule in the country of 50 million.
But her tenure
has been marred by a failure to speak up for
Rohingya Muslims
who were driven out of the country by the army in what the United Nations has called an ethnic cleansing campaign.
was globally hailed as a freedom fighter who stood up to her country's feared military dictatorship while spending 15 years under house arrest.
was globally hailed as a freedom fighter who stood up to her country's feared military dictatorship while spending 15 years under house arrest.
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
The London-based global human rights organisation said
it was revoking the Ambassador of Conscience Award it gave Suu Kyi in 2009 while she was still under house arrest.
Amnesty International chief Kumi Naidoo
said in a letter to Suu Kyi released by the group.
"Today, we are profoundly dismayed that you no longer represent a symbol of hope, courage, and the undying defence of human rights"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.