[Photo] Calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be stripped of Gwangju Prize for Human Rights

On Nov. 10, the Gwangju Human Rights Conference called for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s human rights award to be revoked in light of what the UN has called “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” against the Rohingya people that has recently taken place in her country. Thousands of the Muslim minority group have been killed, and over half a million people have been driven out of their homes by the military in the past two months. The country has come under increasing international condemnation, and Gwangju civic groups are now adding their voices to the global outcry. Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights in 2004 for her efforts to bring democracy to Myanmar.