Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi is losing one honor after another. Many awards given to her have been withdrawn before. Now, there is talk of revoking the honorary Canadian citizenship granted to her.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the issue will be raised in the Canadian Parliament and a decision will be made through discussion.
Canadian lawmakers have unanimously voted to declare the military's brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state a genocide. The country's House of Commons on Thursday approved a report by a country email list United Nations fact-finding mission to Myanmar on the military's abuses of the Rohingya.
Suu Kyi has been silent on the brutal atrocities committed by the military against the Rohingya. She has failed to take any effective role in this matter. Not only that, she has always spoken in favor of the military. That is why Trudeau has expressed his consent to the discussion of revoking the honorary citizenship of Canada given to Suu Kyi. In 1977, the Canadian Parliament granted honorary citizenship to Aung San Suu Kyi.
"Parliament gave her honorary citizenship. So we can certainly discuss that," Trudeau said at a UN press conference in New York. "But I'm making one thing clear: whether Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has Canadian citizenship or not, whether it's honorary or not, makes no difference in resolving the Rohingya problem."