Iran press/America: according to CBS, the move by Canadian lawmakers in the House of Commons came a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that parliament was reconsidering whether Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi still deserved the honour of citizenship.
Passing the motion was a response to her failure to stop the persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.
The historic motion was unexpected but foreseeable, after prime minister Justin Trudeau told reporters a day ago that he was open to looking at stripping Suu Kyi of the honour, but said doing so would not end the crisis in Myanmar.
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Thursday's vote came a week after Canadian lawmakers have unanimously voted to declare Myanmar’s military actions against the Rohingya people a genocide.
According to Guardian, Canadian lawmakers said they “recognise that these crimes against the Rohingya constitute genocide” and urged the UN security council to refer the case to the international criminal court, while also calling for Myanmar’s generals to be investigated and prosecuted “for the crime of genocide”.
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Aung San Suu Kyi received the honour from Ottawa in 2007, when she was a democracy advocate long under house arrest. But the Myanmar's de-facto leader has been under fire for her failure to condemn the military campaign that has driven more than 700,000 Rohingya into neighbouring Bangladesh in what the UN human rights chief called "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her efforts to bring democracy to Myanmar which was then under military rule.
Rights organisations have accused Myanmar military of committing extrajudicial killings, gang rape, and arson during their bloody campaign launched in August last year after army posts came under attack from Rohingya fighters.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya now live in cramped refugee camps in Bangladesh, fearful of returning home despite a repatriation deal.
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