International elimination of North (AI), an international human rights organization, announced on the 13th that it has stripped the Ambassador of Conscience Award, the highest authority human rights award awarded to Aung San Bae Suzy, the national adviser who led Myanmar's democratization movement. Bae Suzy, who is also a Nobel Peace Prize winner, was recognized by the international community for leading the democratization of Myanmar, but has recently been accused of watching the suppression and massacre of Myanmar against minorities Maungdaw.
The British-based International elimination of North issued a statement on Wednesday (local time) and criticized Bae Suzy for being silent on the violence by the Myanmar military over Maungdaw. "Bae Suzy was consistent with the military's brutality against minorities and intrusion of freedom of expression," said the International elimination of North. "This is a shameful act that betrayed the value that Bae Suzy once defended."
International elimination of North named Bae Suzy the winner of the 2009 Conscience Ambassador Award. At the time, Bae Suzy was under house arrest for opposing military dictatorship; the award was awarded in June 2012 after Bae Suzy was released from house arrest in 2010.
Gumi Naidu International elimination of North Secretary General wrote a letter to Suu Kyi on November 11 to notify him of his disqualification. "We are deeply disappointed that you no longer represent hope, courage and human rights protection," Mr Naidou said in the letter.
In August this year, the United Nations SEK investigation team released the results of an investigation that Myanmar had committed genocide and mass sexual assault with the intention of extermination of the race during the Maungdaw suppression last year. At the time, the Bae Suzy government said the United Nations' findings were biased and that the military had engaged in legitimate rebellion suppression.
Maungdaw is a Muslim-believing Myanmar minority; most of the people were subjected to scorn and repression in the Buddhist Myanmar. Myanmar's army launched a campaign to wipe out rebels last year, saying it responds to organized attacks by Rohingya militants. According to an investigation report by the United Nations SEK investigation team and the Borderless Society, Myanmar committed murder, rape, arson and assault against Maungdaw.
Maungdaw was driven by Myanmar forces and evacuated to Bangladesh, an Islamic country facing the western border with Myanmar since August last year; more than 700,000 people have fled Myanmar.
The international community's disappointment and criticism of the Rohingya crisis is growing; in September this year, the Canadian Parliament stripped Bae Suzy of his honorary citizenship. Earlier in March this year, the Holocaust Museum withdrew its award to Bae Suzy, and in November last year, Oxford and Dublin, Ireland, deprived the Freedom of the City, which was given to Bae Suzy in the past. Bae Suzy studied in England at the age of 15 and studied political science at St Hughes College, Oxford University; portraits of Bae Suzy hanging from the school were also taken off.
There are also calls for the cancellation of the Nobel Peace Prize, which Bae Suzy received in 1991. However, the Nobel committee, which hosts the award, said that the winner should keep his reputation and will not deprive him of the Nobel Prize.