Bob Geldof Returns Award In Protest

Bob Geldof (s_bukley / Shutterstock)

BOOMTOWN RATS singer and LIVE AID founder BOB GELDOF is returning his "FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN" AWARD in protest of the award also going to MYANMAR leader AUNG SAN SUU KYI, who has come under heavy criticism for not speaking out against alleged ethnic cleansing of MYANMAR's ROHINGYA population. CNN reports that Since AUGUST, over a half-million ROHINGYA have fled the country to seek refuge in Bangladesh, recounting  scores of atrocities.

"AUNG SAN SUU KYI was extravagantly welcomed to this city, and I was a participant to that ... and it turned out that she's a killer, and I don't want to be on the same list as what the UN described as a genocide," GELDOF said in DUBLIN before he returned the award. "I don't want to give this up, I'm really proud of it, you know, and you know I get handed things by states and cities around the world, but I'm a Dub [Dubliner] and this meant very much to me ... I don't want to do it, but it's the most I can do and the least."

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