The Dhaka Times Desk The country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been losing one international award after another for continuing to persecute the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State and not protesting the genocide and rape.
This time, South Korean human rights organization Gwangju Human Rights Award was added to the list of losers. The South Korean organization withdrew the award given to Suu Kyi on Tuesday.
According to media reports, the human rights organization called Gawangju Human Rights said that the award is being withdrawn due to his indifference to the inhumane torture against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. The organization presented Suu Kyi with the award in 2004. At that time, Suu Kyi was under house arrest by Myanmar's military junta.
"His indifference to the atrocities against the Rohingya is fundamentally at odds with the values of this award," Cho Jin Tae, a spokesperson for the organization, said in a statement. We have therefore decided to withdraw this award.
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has previously received several other awards including the Elie Wiesel Award of the United States, the Freedom of Oxford Award, the Unison Award, the Freedom of Glasgow Award, and the University of Edinburgh Award.
It should be noted that Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest for about 15 years due to leading the movement to establish democracy. This leader also received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for setting a precedent for non-violent struggle to establish democracy and human rights.
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