On the 9th December 2019, International Genocide Day, 30 human rights, academic and professional organizations from 10 countries jointly launched an international “Boycott Myanmar Campaign” in order to bring to bear economic, cultural, diplomatic and political pressure on Myanmar’s coalition government of Aung San Suu Kyi and the military.
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Stand Against Genocide by Stripping Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize
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Ms. Berit Reiss-Andersen
Chair
Norwegian Nobel Committee
Dear Ms. Reiss-Andersen,
For decades, Myanmar has violently and systematically persecuted its minorities, including the Rohingya people as well as the Shan, Kachin, Ta’ang, Karen, Chin, Mon and Kayar communities.
Investigations by the United Nations and other bodies confirm the Myanmar military’s leading role in this persecution. They have said that it may amount to the gravest of international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. And this persecution continues until today, with the perpetrators going largely unpunished.
All of this is happening under the watch of Myanmar’s effective head of state: the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi.
But rather than focusing on protecting Myanmar’s minorities and pursuing accountability for atrocities, Aung San Suu Kyi has been defensive, denying or justifying the military’s actions. And this is so even as trials have begun to examine these events in the world’s top courts – the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court – and in other national courts.
The Nobel Peace Prize is regarded worldwide as a symbol of hope and solidarity. Its recipients are recognized as such, and linked to the prize, forever. Therefore, the Nobel Committee cannot simply ignore what its prize recipients do after receiving the prize.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s recent conduct has proven that she is wholly unworthy of holding the Nobel Peace Prize. She is arguably complicit in the apparent commission of mass atrocity crimes in Myanmar. Every day that she continues to hold the Nobel Peace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi undermines all that it stands for.
Several organizations, countries, and cities have already taken a stand and stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of honors they had awarded her. We urge you to join them.
We call upon you to show moral leadership and solidarity with Myanmar’s persecuted minorities by stripping Aung San Suu Kyi of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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