Dhaka, Mar;1: Three visiting women Nobel Peace Prize laureates on Wednesday asked Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to quit her office if she failed to stop genocide, saying, otherwise she would be held responsible along with Burmese military commanders for Rohingya massacre.
“If she fails to do so (stop genocide), her choice is clear, resign or be held accountable, along with the army commanders for the crimes committed,” one of the three Tawakkol Karman of Yemen told a joint press conference in Dhaka.
She said Suu Kyi “must stop turning a deaf ear to the persecution” of Rohingyas or risk being complicit in the crimes while all the three globally acclaimed rights activists were unanimous in calling the violence against Rohingyas “genocide.
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Karman’s two colleagues Northern Ireland’s Mairead Maguire and Shirin Ebadi of Iran promised to work to bring those responsible to justice as they spoke in emotion choked voice at the news conference at Sonargaon Hotel here.
The trio met the press in Dhaka as they wrapped up their five-day Bangladesh visit which took them to the sprawling Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar to extensively interacted with the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, and met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the officials concerned.
