Rights Atrocities and Canadian Citizenship

city: DAVID RIDER / TORONTO STAR By David Rider City Hall Bureau Chief Fri., June 9, 2017 Burma's world-famous civilian leader got a hero's welcome at Toronto city hall while protesters outside accused Aung San Suu Kyi of ignoring human rights atrocities in their homeland, according to Toronto Star. Suu Kyi met privately with Mayor John Tory on Friday before greeting a city council chamber packed with several hundred Burmese-Canadians who sang Happy Birthday, 10 days before she turns 72.A Nobel Peace Prize winner and only one of six people given honorary Canadian citizenship, she spent 15 years detained by a military dictatorship before her National League for Democracy was voted into power in 2015. Suu Kyi later spoke to several hundred Burmese Canadians in the council chamber as a few dozen human rights protesters marched outside. Her Canadian visit, which saw Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledge an extra 8.8 million for Burma's peace and stability programs, has triggered calls for officials to confront Suu Kyi about allegations of ongoing human rights abuses against her country's Muslim ethnic Rohingya minority. Article Continued Below Her Excellency has worked tirelessly to bring reforms and peace to Myanmar, another name for Burma, the mayor said. Tory did not publicly address those calls but said Suu Kyi, on a fact-finding mission to learn how to rebuild democracy in her homeland, can learn a lot from diverse and tolerant Toronto. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.