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Malala (left) has been critical of her fellow peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi over the violence in Burma Balkis Press/Xinhua/PA Images

Malala says 'world is waiting' for Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn violence against Rohingya Muslims

The Nobel Peace Prize winner has criticised her fellow Nobel laureate for not condemning the escalating violence.

NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE Malala Yousafzai has issued a statement criticising fellow peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi for her failure to criticise the violence against Rohingya refugees in Myanmar.

Since 25 August, a total of 87,000 mostly Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since violence erupted in neighbouring Myanmar.

Thousands of the stateless Muslim minority have fled the mainly Buddhist nation and poured over the border since the latest round of fighting broke out.

Around 400 people — most of them Rohingya Muslims — have died in violence searing through Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine state, the army chief’s office said on Friday.

Reports of massacres and the systematic torching of villages by security forces — as well as by militants — have further amplified tensions, raising fears that communal violence in Rakhine is spinning out of control.

Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks Rohingya refugees arrive in Bangladesh AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

Malala, who was shot by the Taliban for advocating education for girls in her native Pakistan, was granted the Nobel Peace prize aged 17 in 2014.

In a post on Twitter, she condemned the violence against the Rohingya people in Myanmar and said she has yet to hear fellow Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi do likewise.

She said: “If their home is not Myanmar, where they have lived for generations, then where is it? Rohingya people should be given citizenship in Myanmar, the country where they were born.

Over the last several years, I have repeatedly condemned this tragic and shameful treatment. I am still waiting for my fellow Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do the same. The world is waiting and the Rohingya Muslims are waiting.

Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She has been the face of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar for decades, but also endured house arrest for much of that time while a military junta ruled the country.

She has denied that she is standing by while Rohingya Muslims die in clashes with security forces.

Suu Kyi’s government have denied reports of atrocities, refusing visas to UN officials charged with investigating the allegations.

They have frequently condemned international media coverage and blocked press access to much the war-torn region.

With reporting from Sean Murray

© AFP 2017

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 2:43 PM

    Being 5tup1d with fireworks and being 5tup1d with firearms ought to be the same crime. Hope the lady recovers, but it sounds very bad.

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 3:03 PM

    Sounds like she was just minding her own business and all. Poor woman. I hope she recovers fully. What kind of ding dong sets off a firework in a busy city centre.

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 3:09 PM

    Gardai asking for CCTV footage …. I hope they aren’t just waiting for it to land in their laps, and are actually proactively approaching businesses in the area asking for it.

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 4:04 PM

    @Pablo: dope

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 5:26 PM

    @Pablo: Yeah thats how the police works, they go on twitter and say Hey Hey, hit me up with any clips from that bad buzz in #eyresquare #thoughtsandprayers #nodrama

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 3:46 PM

    A life changing injury to a young girls face, caused by someone who does not care about the physical and mental damage they have inflicted.

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 3:09 PM

    Hope they catch the *censored word*. The injuries sound horrific

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 3:37 PM

    A lot of people don’t seem to realise that fireworks are quite serious explosives. The lifting charge alone has enough energy to launch the thing several hundred feet in the air. and the radius and and heat of the main charge is huge. They need to be treated with the same respect as any other explosive.

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 7:28 PM

    @Francis Devenney: unfortunately, I don’t think the people using them care about that, and I’m pretty sure they won’t be reading this article. They will only learn when they get injured themselves :(

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 4:27 PM

    But don’t forget it’s part of their culture.

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    Oct 23rd 2021, 11:41 AM

    @Ian Drohan: who? Galwegians?

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 3:57 PM

    Please come forward if you know anything on this. If you actually did it, come forward.

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    Oct 22nd 2021, 7:29 PM

    @Jimmy Jones: pretty sure the people that did it don’t read or reply to articles on the journal

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