LONDON: Myanmar chief Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of the honorific freedom of Oxford, the British town where she studied and raised her children, over her "inaction" within the Rohingya disaster.
"When Aung San Suu Kyi was given the Freedom of the City in 1997 it was because she reflected Oxford's values of tolerance and internationalism," the city council said in a remark issued late Monday.
"Today we have taken the unprecedented step of stripping her of the city's highest honour because of her inaction in the face of the oppression of the minority Rohingya population," added the discharge, which was revealed after a unanimous vote.
"Our reputation is tarnished by honouring those who turn a blind eye to violence."
Oxford's world-renowned college removed portraits of Suu Kyi, a former scholar, from its walls in September.
Suu Kyi's late husband Michael Aris was a lecturer in Asian history on the college, and the couple lived and raised their two sons within the town.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner has come below fireplace for failing to talk up in defence of the minority Muslim community.
The United Nations says greater than 620,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since August and now are living in squalor on the earth's biggest refugee camp after a military crackdown in Myanmar that the UN and Washington have said obviously constitutes "ethnic cleansing".
"When Aung San Suu Kyi was given the Freedom of the City in 1997 it was because she reflected Oxford's values of tolerance and internationalism," the city council said in a remark issued late Monday.
"Today we have taken the unprecedented step of stripping her of the city's highest honour because of her inaction in the face of the oppression of the minority Rohingya population," added the discharge, which was revealed after a unanimous vote.
"Our reputation is tarnished by honouring those who turn a blind eye to violence."
Oxford's world-renowned college removed portraits of Suu Kyi, a former scholar, from its walls in September.
Suu Kyi's late husband Michael Aris was a lecturer in Asian history on the college, and the couple lived and raised their two sons within the town.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner has come below fireplace for failing to talk up in defence of the minority Muslim community.
The United Nations says greater than 620,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since August and now are living in squalor on the earth's biggest refugee camp after a military crackdown in Myanmar that the UN and Washington have said obviously constitutes "ethnic cleansing".
Oxford strips Suu Kyi of city's freedom
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