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- Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her work in favor of democracy in Myanmar, and Canada voted for the granting of her honorary citizenship in 2007.
- Suu Kyi remained silent about the investigations of human rights violations by Myanmar security forces against the Rohingya and raped them.
- The vote comes after a UN report that there was evidence that Myanmar military officials committed the "most serious crimes" against the ethnic minority in 2017.
The Canadian government voted Tuesday to revoke the honorary citizenship of Myanmar's civil leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, for her inability to fight human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority in the country. nation of Southeast Asia.
In 2007, Canada awarded the rare nomination to Suu Kyi, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper had then declared that she had been "the only one in the world." one of the main forces in the ongoing struggle for democracy and human rights ". "in Myanmar.
"At that time, she was a champion of change and human rights (…) The whole world was hoping in her as a beacon and a hope of a democratic Myanmar and peaceful, "said Canadian Senator Ratna Omidvar, who introduced the bill. fellow legislators.
The recent vote was essentially symbolic.
"We need to send a strong signal to Canada and the world: if you are an accomplice to a genocide, you are not welcome here," Omidvar said. "To strip her of her honorary citizenship may not make a tangible difference to her, but it will send an important symbolic message."
The "most serious crimes" in Myanmar
The decision comes after a UN investigation mission that revealed that senior military officials in Myanmar had directed Rohingya civilians with violence that "was without a doubt the most serious crimes in the country." international law "in Rakhine and in the states of Kachin and Shan.
Suu Kyi has expressed opposition to the survey conducted by the United Kingdom at the announcement of its decision last year.
"We dissociate ourselves from the resolution because we do not think it corresponds to what is really happening on the ground," Suu Kyi said in 2017.
Since the 1970s, nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar, often to neighboring Bangladesh or Malaysia. It is unclear exactly how many Rohingyas have been killed in the ongoing conflicts, but the recent UN report suggests that about 10,000 people reportedly died in a campaign launched by security officials from Myanmar from August 2017, as well as a separate report of ASEAN Human Rights Parliamentarians. more than 40,000 Rohingyas were "missing" in the next six months.
"We must recognize this atrocity for what it is," Omidvar said. "It's a genocide, we have to call it as it is."
