Bob Geldof calls Aung San Suu Kyi 'handmaiden to genocide'.

[Cattledog]

Irish musician and activist Bob Geldof called Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi “a hand maiden to genocide” on Monday as he returned his Freedom of the City of Dublin award in protest over his fellow recipient’s response to the repression of Rohingya Muslims.

“I don’t want to be on a very select roll of wonderful people with a killer,” Geldof told state broadcaster RTE. “Someone who is at best a handmaiden to genocide and an accomplice to murder.”

More than 600,000 Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fled to refugee camps in Bangladesh after military operations described by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing.

Their plight has drawn outrage around the world. But Suu Kyi, long seen as a champion of human rights, has been criticized for failing to speak out against violence. There have been calls for her to be stripped of the Nobel Peace Prize she won in 1991.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Hard to argue with that... What a disappointment she has been..

[Lucky Luciano]

2. She is totally complicit.

I have read about her being very authoritarian with a tight grip and the Burmese like it that way since they are already used to that - I guess much like Russia. Muslims are a big scapegoat there too.