Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of ‘Freedom of Oxford’ honour

Awards withdrawn from Aung San Suu Kyi

St Hugh’s College, Oxford: Portrait eliminated, name dropped from customary room

Oxford: Freedom of the Metropolis honour withdrawn

London College of Economics: Honourary College students’ Union presidency revoked

Glasgow: Freedom of the Metropolis honour withdrawn

Sheffield: Freedom of the Metropolis honour withdrawn

Unison commerce union: Honourary membership revoked

Unifor commerce union: Honourary membership revoked

Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of the « Freedom of Oxford » award by the metropolis’s council over her failure to talk about out on abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya.

In a unanimous decision on Monday night time, Oxford Metropolis Council voted to strip the Burmese Pronounce Counsellor of the award she got in 1997 and mute personally in 2012 after 15 years below home arrest.

« It changed into once gorgeous to give the Freedom of the Metropolis to Aung San Suu Kyi in 1997 in recognition of her lengthy fight for democracy and her internal most hyperlinks to Oxford, » the scandalous occasion stream read.

In accordance to the stream, she had no longer responded to the council’s letter calling on her to « blueprint no topic she can to cease the ethnic cleansing in her country ».

#Oxford Metropolis Council votes – unanimously- to set Freedom of the Metropolis from Aung San Solar Kyi – councillors suppose with ‘heavy hearts and remorse’ #Rohingya #Myanmar pic.twitter.com/eXcrjJZ5xu

— Barnaby Phillips (@BarnabyPhillips) November 27, 2017

More than 600,000 members of the largely-Muslim Rohingya ethnic community have fled to Bangladesh after Myanmar’s protection force launched a marketing and marketing campaign ostensibly geared toward eradicating Rohingya armed groups.

Of us which have fled express a marketing and marketing campaign of killing, rape, and the destruction, and their accounts had been backed by human rights groups and journalists working in the space.

Aung San Suu Kyi has but to recognise that atrocities are taking spot and has no longer spoken out against the Burmese protection force.

Labour occasion councillor Mary Clarkson acknowledged the metropolis of Oxford would no longer flip a « blind survey » to the continuing violence in Myanmar.

« The burning of [Rohingya] villages has been independently confirmed by satellite tv for computer photos, and the UN has known as the discipline ‘a textbook instance of genocide’ , but Aung San Suu Kyi has denied any ethnic cleansing and brushed off a colossal possibility of claims of sexual violence against Rohingya women folks as ‘faux rape’. »

Oxford Metropolis Council has eliminated the Freedom of the Metropolis of Oxford from Aung San Suu Kyi.

The scandalous-occasion stream changed into once unanimously supported at a undeniable council meeting moments ago. pic.twitter.com/GXYiJIdxGI

— Oxford Metropolis Council (@OxfordCity) November 27, 2017

The council joins a rising list of establishments which have revoked honours.

College students at Aung San Suu Kyi’s alma mater, St Hugh’s College at Oxford College, eliminated her name from its customary room and the faculty took down her portrait from its entrance.

Last week, students on the London College of Economics voted to strip an honourary presidency.

Forward of Oxford, the cities of Sheffield and Glasgow also stripped the Burmese chief of their Freedom of the Metropolis awards.

Organisations outdoors the UK have also taken steps to withdraw awards.

Canada’s largest commerce union, Unifor, revoked the honourary membership it had awarded the Nobel Prize winner in 2000.