Oxford City Council strips Aung San Suu Kyi of highest honour
Naypyidaw, Nov 28 (IBNS): Oxford City Council has removed the Oxford honour from Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi's over the latter's handling of Rohingya crisis, media reports said.
The Oxford City Council has conferred the honour to Suu Kyi in the year 1997.
Citing the reasons for such a drastic step, Oxford stated: "Today we have taken an unprecedented step of stripping her of the city's highest honour because of her inaction in the face of oppression of the minority Rohingya population."
"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. We celebrated her for her opposition to oppression and military rule in Burma."
Suu Kyi graduated from Oxford University's St Hugh's College in 1967.
Oxford City Council has removed the Freedom of the City of Oxford from Aung San Suu Kyi.
— Oxford City Council (@OxfordCity) November 27, 2017
The cross-party motion was unanimously supported at a special council meeting moments ago. pic.twitter.com/GXYiJIdxGI
At least 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh ever since violence broke out in Myanmar, which has sustained criticism from human rights watch dogs for alleged ethnic cleansing.
Among the displaced Rohingya, Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar has been a hotspot, as the place has sheltered as many as 400,000 refugees.
Bangladesh, which has received overwhelming refugees in the past three months, is now mulling voluntary sterilization.
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