U.S. Holocaust Museum Revokes Award to Aung San Suu Kyi
The United States and other countries have accused the Myanmar authorities of ethnic cleansing, while the United Nations special envoy on human rights in
Myanmar said the killings bore "the hallmarks of a genocide." Meanwhile, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to even utter the word Rohingya in public.
Instead, the letter said, she and her political party, the National League for Democracy, have refused to cooperate with United Nations investigators, blocked access to journalists
and "promulgated hateful rhetoric against the Rohingya community." The museum’s decision is perhaps the strongest rebuke yet of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been increasingly criticized as a seemingly unrepentant apologist for Buddhist nationalism and the Myanmar military’s campaign of ethnic violence.
" the museum said in a letter to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.
that We had hoped that you — as someone we and many others have celebrated for your commitment to human dignity and universal human rights — would have done something to condemn and stop the military’s brutal campaign and to express solidarity with the targeted Rohingya population,
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZMARCH 7, 2018
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has revoked a prestigious human rights award it had given to the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, now
Myanmar’s civilian leader, faulting her for failing to halt or even acknowledge the ethnic cleansing of her country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
nt hatred, prevent genocide and promote human dignity." But Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, the museum said, has failed to live up to
that vision. that to an internationally prominent individual whose actions have advanced the Museum’s vision of a world where people confro
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who endured 15 years of house arrest for taking on the military
dictatorship in Myanmar, was only the second person to receive the award, in 2012.
