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Aung San Suu Kyi Should Oppose Myanmar Military or Resign, Says Fellow Nobel Prize Winner

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman of Yemen looks on during a news conference against mining in the town of Casillas, Guatemala, on Oct. 26. / Reuters

Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman of Yemen looks on during a news conference against mining in the town of Casillas, Guatemala, on Oct. 26. / Reuters

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PHNOM PENH — Myanmar leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi should try to stop military atrocities against Rohingya civilians or resign, fellow Nobel laureate Tawakkol Karman said on Monday.

Rights groups and United Nations investigators have collected evidence of widespread abuses including sexual violence, killings and arson and described the military crackdown as “ethnic cleansing.” But since coming to power in 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi — who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her decades-long pro-democracy fight — has failed publicly to condemn abuses against Rohingya civilians which began after Rohingya insurgents attacked police and military outposts.

“We are so angry about our Nobel sister Aung San Suu Kyi,” said Karman, who visited women in refugee camps on Sunday and Monday along with another two laureates.

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“She should tell the truth or she should resign,” said Karman by phone from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. “If she continues in this role, she is one of the perpetrators.”

Karman, who in 2011 was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in Yemen, said Aung San Suu Kyi could face international prosecution — along with military officers — as she had failed to protect civilians.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s spokesman’s phone was turned off, while two officials at the foreign ministry, which she also leads, said they were not able to answer questions. A military spokesman did not answer his phone.

Karman told the Thomson Reuters Foundation she had spoken to 15 women who said their husbands and some of their children had been killed, and that they had been raped repeatedly by soldiers.

“You can’t imagine what we heard today,” said Karman.

Aung San Suu Kyi, 71, has rarely directly addressed allegations of abuses against Rohingya people even though at least 688,000 Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh, according to UN figures.

On Monday, European Union foreign ministers agreed to draw up sanctions on military leaders.

Aung San Suu Kyi is barred from the presidency but her party installed her as de facto leader after a landslide 2015 election. In her current role she has no control over the military. Many hoped Aung San Suu Kyi’s ascent to power would help halt abuses against Rohingyas, an ethnic and religious Muslim minority who are mostly denied citizenship and live under an apartheid-like system.

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