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Canada's Parliament Votes To Strip Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Of Honorary Citizenship

The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate's international reputation has taken a severe beating over her government's failure to halt atrocities against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar state counselor, left, speaks with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa last year.

Canada's House of Commons voted unanimously Thursday to revoke honorary citizenship for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi following her failure to halt atrocities against the Southeast Asian country's Rohingya minority.

The vote to strip Suu Kyi

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