Hundreds and thousands demand authorities to take back Suu Kyi’s Nobel Prize

As the woes of Rohingya Muslims deepen in Myanmar, social media users from across the globe have started signing an online petition to rescind Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize.

The petition ‘Take Back Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize’ has taken the social media, specially Twitter, by storm as around over 3.1 lac people have signed the petition in protest against silence of Suu Kyi on persecution of Muslims in her country.

Link for the petition is largely being shared on Facebook and Whatsapp as well.

The petition has demanded that “the Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee confiscate or take back the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi.”

People are also demanding to take back the six million Swedish krona prize money that she won along the Nobel Prize in 1991.

Read More: Suu Kyi and Myanmar face chorus of anger over Rohingya crisis

The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar has lately lambasted the Myanmar leader for failing to protect the Rohingya Muslim minority as she has adopted silence on the plight of the Muslim minority that is being systematically oppressed by the Buddhist government and extremists.

Many celebrities and world known figures have also jumped in to criticise the Myanmar government for failing to contain the persecution.

 

Here is what people actually say:

Aung San Suu Kyi should hand back her Nobel Prize she’s not worthy of! #Myanmar #Rakhine @NobelPrize

— zaz (@alsoknownaszaz) September 4, 2017

Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar by boat as their homes are set ablaze by a Nobel Peace Prize recipient’s regime. pic.twitter.com/gJSOJT1LRv

— CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) September 2, 2017

@NobelPrize losing its prestige & shine every hour courtesy #AungSanSuuKyi & her silence on the genocide of Rohingya muslims. #shame

— Fakhr-e-Alam (@falamb3) September 5, 2017

Pakistani Nobel Prize holder Malala Yousafzai has also condemned the unfortunate situation and sought from her fellow Nobel laureate to speak against it.

My statement on the #Rohingya crisis in Myanmar: pic.twitter.com/1Pj5U3VdDK

— Malala (@Malala) September 3, 2017

Powerful from @Malala well done – rightly calling out Aung San Suu Kyi for her inadequate response to Rohingya mistreatment under her watch https://t.co/Us76zLI91T

— Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) September 3, 2017

Ebrahim Mohammad, wrote on Facebook, “the situation in Myanmar is disgraceful and deeply saddening. Aung San Suu Kyi is not the person the world believed her to be, she should be stripped of her Nobel Peace Prize. She is brushing off the mass killings by her military.”

روہنگیا مسلمانوں کی نسل کشی کیخلاف اس پیٹیشن کو سائن کریں۔
Sign the petition to stop Rohingya genocide.https://t.co/yKxJMbUTSL

— Hamid Al.Shazli (@SyedEagle) September 3, 2017

Different organisations are organising countrywide protests against Rohingyas’ killings on different dates, with Pakistan Awami Tehreek Chief Tahir-ul-Qadri calling for protest on Friday.

Protest rallies will be held across 100 cities of the country on Friday under the banner of PAT to express solidarity with #RohingyaMuslims pic.twitter.com/c5T1pMilo0

— Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri (@TahirulQadri) September 5, 2017

Pak govt, OIC, and the UN need to stand up for protection of the Burmese Muslims who are subjected to genocide. #RohingyaMuslims

— Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri (@TahirulQadri) September 5, 2017

Burmese Muslims are being massacred. Why are the UN and Islamic countries silent on the oppression ? #RohingyaMuslims

— Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri (@TahirulQadri) September 3, 2017

Shocked to see the situation in Burma against #RohingiyaMuslims, the responsible world bodies must take concrete measure to stop genocide.

— Shahid Afridi (@SAfridiOfficial) September 5, 2017

41-year old #Rohingya man, voice trembling: “I saw with my own eyes. He cut his head off.” Harrowing accounts of violence in #Myanmar.

— Matthew Smith (@matthewfsmith) September 1, 2017

The world condemned ISIS for destroying historical religious monuments.

Today Burma's military destroyed this 17th century Rohingya mosque. pic.twitter.com/54M3hIqbtJ

— CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) September 15, 2017

I am Burmese & Buddhist.I strongly condemn #AungSanSuuKyi, army & #Myanmar media 4 mis-framing my country's #Rohinya genocide as "terrorism" pic.twitter.com/BF9rzcwTdB

— maung zarni (@drzarni) September 7, 2017

 

 

Click Here for the link to the petition on Change.org.