City of London to debate revoking Suu Kyi's freedom award
8 Oct 2017 10:20 PM IST
London: The City of London's local authority members will debate stripping Aung San Suu Kyi of the Honorary Freedom, the highest honour the city can bestow, over the Myanmar leader's response to the Rohingya crisis.
She has faced international criticism over her perceived failure to take action against reports of the Myanmar Army's repression of the Rohingya minority Muslims in the Rakhine State from where nearly 500,000 people have fled their homes to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Catherine McGuinness, a lawyer who chairs the City of London Corporation's policy and resources committee, informed fellow councillors by email that she was "distressed at the situation in Burma (Myanmar) and the atrocities committed by the Burmese military".
Her comments came after one member, Munsur Ali, sent an email, saying that he was tabling a motion that would criticise Suu Kyi's failure to publicly challenge the conduct of her country's armed forces over allegations of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in the country, according to the Observer.
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