Calls have been made to strip a Nobel Peace Prize winner of the freedom of Newcastle.
Human rights campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi who was awarded Freedom of Newcastle in 2011, but has come in for strong criticism in recent weeks after violence erupted against Burma’s Rohingya Muslims.
Ms Suu Kyi, the feted pro-democracy activist who spent 15 years under house arrest before being elected as Myanmar’s State Counsellor in 2015, has failed to visit the affected region since the outbreak of violence.
In that time at least 10,000 members of the Muslim ethnic group have been driven across the Bangladeshi border by threat of violence.
Instead, she has repeatedly defended the purges, attacking foreign intervention in the region and demanding: “show me a country without human rights issues”. (Courtesy of chroniclelive.co.uk)
