Canada strips Suu Kyi’s honorary citizenship

Abrar Hussain
Canada’s parliament has unanimously voted to strip Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship over her handling of the Rohingya crisis.
The vote came on Thursday, a week after Canadian lawmakers approved a motion recognizing the crimes committed against Rohingya Muslims as genocide.
(From Page 1) Aung San Suu Kyi received the honor from Ottawa in 2007, when she was a democracy advocate under house arrest. However, the Myanmar leader has been under fire in recent months for her failure to condemn the military campaign that has exiled more than 700,000 Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh in what the UN human rights chief called “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. “We will continue to support the Rohingya by providing humanitarian assistance, imposing sanctions against Myanmar’s generals and demanding that those responsible be held accountable before a competent international body,” said Adam Austen, spokesman for Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. -Source: Aljazeera