Undergraduate at the Oxford college have voted to remove Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s name from the title of their junior common room because of her response to the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.
The students at St Hugh’s college at the University of Oxford, where Suu Kyi once studied, took the decision in a vote on Thursday, reports the Guardian.
The students resolved to eliminate the name from the Aung San Suu Kyi junior common room with immediate effect.
The motion also criticised the “silence and complicity” in her apparent defence of Myanmar’s treatment towards the Rohingya.
According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at least 582,000 Rohingya have entered Bangladesh fleeing the violence which erupted in Myanmar on August 25.
The St Hugh’s resolution read: “Aung San Suu Kyi’s inability to condemn the mass murder, gang rape and severe human rights abuses in Rakhine is inexcusable and unacceptable. She has gone against the very principles and ideals she had once righteously promoted.”
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Earlier in September, Oxford college removed the portrait Suu Kyi amid criticism of her handling of the Rohingya crisis.
Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize winner who won 2015 election and became Myanmar’s de facto civilian leader, was a former political prisoner who has been since winning elections in 2015.
She is coming under growing international pressure to act and has been criticised for failing to address UN allegations of ethnic cleansing.
Suu Kyi, condemned human rights abuses against the Rohingya in a speech in September, but she did not blame the army or address allegations of ethnic cleansing.
She graduated from St Hugh’s College in 1967 and was awarded an honorary degree in June 2012, which the university said it was not considering removing.
Founded in 1886, St Hugh’s is one of the largest colleges at the university with about 800 students.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
