Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is beginning to feel the pressure as more Canadians sign on to this petition calling on Canada to revoke Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's honourary Canadian citizenship. The petition, which topped 10,000 supporters late Friday night also calls on the Canadian government to unequivocally condemn Suu Kyi for her unwillingness to act on reports of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya minority and possible war crimes that have been committed by the Myanmar military and state sponsored Buddhist nationalist groups. Trudeau is also getting pressure to act from Liberal Party elders as former Liberal cabinet ministers Lloyd Axworthy and Alan Rock penned an opinion piece for the Globe and Mail yesterday calling on the Canadian government to act forcefully on the Rohingya crisis. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/how-we-stop-the-carnage-in-myanmar/article36191836/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com& They called on Canada to act through the United Nations to urgently "consider sanctions, embargoes and other measures that will bring pressure to bear on its government to stop the violence." Axworthy and Rock also urged Canada "to submit a request to the Nobel Committee in Oslo to strip Ms. Suu Kyi of her Nobel Peace Prize." This petition also has the support of the Canadian Burmese Royingya Organization. In an interview with Maclean's magazine CBRO chairman Nur Hashim said that while the petition is a good first step there have to be sanctions. To be clear, the goal when I began this petition was not to stop at revoking the honour Canada gave Suu Kyi. It was to raise awareness and pressure the Canadian government to take some sort of action that could be easily accomplished. Prime Minister Trudeau has it within his power to revoke the honour given to Suu Kyi without difficulty if he has the political will. I am hoping that with the groundswell of support for this petition he sees that Canadians are unwilling to accept as an honourary Canadian someone who is complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya, someone who has refused to act to protect the Rohingya despite international appeals made to Suu Kyi and the Myanmar government, someone who has jettisoned the ideals of democracy, human rights and the rule of law – ideals which were used to justify making her an honourary Canadian. According to a story by Michael Blanchfield of the Canadian Press three fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureates — American Jody Williams who worked with Canada to ban landmines, Iran's Shirin Ebadi and Liberia's Leymah Gbowee — met Suu Kyi privately in New York four years ago in what proved to be a futile effort to persuade her to recognize the Rohingya issue. http://cfjctoday.com/article/586438/other-nobel-winners-failed-persuade-suu-kyi-speak-rohingya-2013 "We were disappointed in her reaction behind the scenes," said Rachel Vincent, the director of Ottawa's Nobel Women's Initiative, who was also at the New York meeting. They felt so strongly about Suu Kyi's unwillingness to acknowledge and act on the persecution of Rohingya that they felt it appropriate to voice their concerns publicly. This week the three women were joined by four other female Nobel laureates which included another honourary Canadian – Malala Yusufzai – who sent Suu Kyi a letter telling her she had betrayed the values of the Nobel Peace Prize with her silence. The growing calls in Canada and internationally to forcefully act to protect the Rohingya and sanction Suu Kyi and other leaders of Myanmar cannot go unheard. While Canada is one of many players on the international stage and can only act in concert with other nations, in Canada Prime Minister Trudeau can act swiftly and decisively to send a signal to Canadians and the world that Canada will not stand silent in the face of ethnic cleansing, war crimes and possible genocide. It is time for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to listen to those Canadians who have signed this petition, and the many other Canadians who are calling on the government to take symbolic as well as concrete action that will help save the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya whose lands are being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, and whose lives are being snuffed out. TO ALL WHO HAVE SIGNED THIS PETITION PLEASE CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT IT AND SHARE IT WIDELY. BY THE TIME PARLIAMENT RETURNS LET'S SEE IF WE CAN HIT THE 20,000 MARK FOR THOSE WHO SUPPORT THIS PETITION. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ARE SPEAKING OUT AND ACTING TO HELP THE ROHINGYA WHO ARE FACING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AT THE HANDS OF THE MILITARY AND NATIONALISTS IN MYANMAR. 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