Article 35HHG Oxford college drops Aung San Suu Kyi from common room's name

Oxford college drops Aung San Suu Kyi from common room's name

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Patrick Greenfield and Richard Adams
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Decision by students at St Hugh's, where the leader of Myanmar also studied, is over her response to the Rohingya crisis

Undergraduates at the Oxford college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied have voted to remove the leader of Myanmar's name from the title of their junior common room because of her response to the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

In a vote on Thursday evening, students at St Hugh's college at the University of Oxford resolved to eliminate the name of the 1991 Nobel peace laureate from the Aung San Suu Kyi junior common room with immediate effect.

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