Canada's parliament has voted unanimously to effectively strip Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship over the Rohingya crisis. Ottawa had given the long-detained democracy advocate and Nobel laureate the rare honour in 2007.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''<br />''But her international reputation has become tarnished by her refusal to call out the atrocities by her nation's military against the Rohingya minority, which Ottawa last week declared a genocide. Adam Austen, spokesman for Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, yesterday said the House of Commons of Canada unanimously passed a motion to remove this status.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Austen cited Suu Kyi's persistent refusal to denounce the Rohingya genocide for the withdrawal of the Canadian honour, which is symbolic and comes with no special privileges.</span><br />
News On AIR | September 28, 2018 1:19 PM
Canada's parliament unanimously voted to strip Myanmar's leader of her honorary citizenship