Amnesty International Myanmar's Strips Suu Kyi of 'Conscience' Award | World News

YANGON (Reuters) – Aung San Suu Kyi, accusing the Myanmar leader of perpetration of human rights against violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

Once again a champion in the fight for democracy, Suu Kyi has been stripped of a series of international honors over a Rohingya exodus that began in August 2017.

More than 700,000 members of the general stateless group fled across Myanmar's western border into Bangladesh after the Myanmar military launched a crackdown in response to Rohingya's insurgent attacks on the security forces.

U.N.-mandated investigators have accused the military of unleashing a campaign of killings, rape and arson with "genocidal intent".

Suu Kyi's administration rejected the findings as one-sided, and said the military action is engaged in a legitimate counterinsurgency operation.

The international human rights group named Suu Kyi as its 2009 Ambassador of Consciousness Award recipient when she was still under house arrest for her opposition to Myanmar's oppressive military junta.

In the eight years since it was released, Suu Kyi led the way to a victory in 2015 and set up the next year, but it has not been overseen by the security forces.

Amnesty International said in a statement on Tuesday that it had failed to protect the security forces for accountability against Rohingya, calling it "shameful betrayal of the values ​​she once stood for".

The global advocacy organization general secretary, Kumi Naidoo, wrote to Suu Kyi on Sunday, saying that it was "profoundly dismayed that you no longer represent a symbol of hope, courage, and the defense of human rights".

Zaw Htay, the Myanmar government's main spokesman, did not pick up Reuters calls seeking on Monday.

In March, the U.S. Memorial Memorial Holocaust rescinded its top award from Suu Kyi and others, including the freedom of the cities of Dublin and Oxford, England, over the Rohingya crisis.

In September, Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship.

Critics have called for her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize to be withdrawn but the foundation that oversees the award said it would not do so.

Amnesty International also said that he had been sentenced to death by armed men and women in the United States.

Her government had also failed to stop attacks on freedom of speech, it said.

(Reporting by Simon Lewis Editing by Robert Birsel)

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