SEOUL: One of South Korean biggest human rights teams will strip Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its 2004 prize as a result of her "indifference" to the atrocities towards the Rohingya minority, organisers stated Tuesday.
Suu Kyi was unable to receive the Gwangju human rights award at the time as a result of she was below house arrest through the military junta.
Her birthday celebration has since taken administrative center in Myanmar and the Nobel Peace Prize winner holds the identify of state counsellor, but the one-time champion of democracy has been extensively accused of apathy or complicity in the plight of the Rohingya.
The United Nations has warned the Muslim minority continue to be targeted in an "ongoing genocide".
"Her indifference to the atrocities against the Rohingya runs against the values the award stands for -- protecting and promoting human rights," spokesman Cho Jin-tae of the May 18 Memorial Foundation advised AFP.
As a consequence the basis's board decided on Monday to withdraw her award, he added.
The foundation was arrange in 1994 to commemorate the 1980 pro-democracy rebellion in Gwangju, which resulted in a massacre through martial regulation troops that left more than 200 people killed or wounded.
But the riot towards then military dictator Chun Doo-hwan impressed the country's pro-democracy protests which culminated in a restoration of democracy seven years later.
Last month, Amnesty International withdrew its prestigious Ambassador of Conscience Award from Suu Kyi, mentioning her "apparent indifference" to the atrocities committed towards the Rohingya.
Suu Kyi was unable to receive the Gwangju human rights award at the time as a result of she was below house arrest through the military junta.
Her birthday celebration has since taken administrative center in Myanmar and the Nobel Peace Prize winner holds the identify of state counsellor, but the one-time champion of democracy has been extensively accused of apathy or complicity in the plight of the Rohingya.
The United Nations has warned the Muslim minority continue to be targeted in an "ongoing genocide".
"Her indifference to the atrocities against the Rohingya runs against the values the award stands for -- protecting and promoting human rights," spokesman Cho Jin-tae of the May 18 Memorial Foundation advised AFP.
As a consequence the basis's board decided on Monday to withdraw her award, he added.
The foundation was arrange in 1994 to commemorate the 1980 pro-democracy rebellion in Gwangju, which resulted in a massacre through martial regulation troops that left more than 200 people killed or wounded.
But the riot towards then military dictator Chun Doo-hwan impressed the country's pro-democracy protests which culminated in a restoration of democracy seven years later.
Last month, Amnesty International withdrew its prestigious Ambassador of Conscience Award from Suu Kyi, mentioning her "apparent indifference" to the atrocities committed towards the Rohingya.
South Korea foundation scraps award for Aung San Suu Kyi
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