400k sign pro-Rohingya petition to strip Suu Kyi of Nobel Prize — RT News

10.9.17

400k sign pro-Rohingya petition to strip Suu Kyi of Nobel Prize — RT News:

"Over the past three years more than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims have been living in grave conditions in refugee camps in Myanmar and in many other countries, including Indonesia," the Change.org petition explains.

"3,000 Rohingyas have been killed within three days between 25 and 27 August, 2017," the petition states, citing the European Rohingya Council (ERC).

The UN migration agency, the IOM, confirmed Thursday that a total of 270,000 people have now fled the violence in Myanmar since August 25.

Makeshift refugee centers and healthcare facilities in Bangladesh are struggling to cope with the unprecedented influx. The IOM has so far allocated $1 million in emergency funding to help with the crisis.

The petition's authors ask a rather pointed question: "What is wrong with being a Muslim, Suu Kyi?"