Undergraduate at the Oxford college have voted to remove Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s name from the title of their junior common room because of her response to the Rohingya humanitarian crisis. The students at St Hugh’s college at the University of Oxford, where Suu Kyi once studied, took the decision in a vote on Thursday, reports the Guardian. The students resolved to eliminate the name from the Aung San Suu Kyi junior common room with immediate effect. She has gone against the very principles and ideals she had once righteously promoted.”Also Read- Oxford College removes Suu Kyi’s portraitEarlier in September, Oxford college removed the portrait Suu Kyi amid criticism of her handling of the Rohingya crisis. Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize winner who won 2015 election and became Myanmar’s de facto civilian leader, was a former political prisoner who has been since winning elections in 2015.
Source: Dhaka Tribune October 20, 2017 06:45 UTC