Sway Geldof is to hand back his Freedom of the City of Dublin, saying he wouldn't like to be related with the honor while it is likewise held by Aung San Suu Kyi.
The Live Aid originator and artist impacted the Burmese Nobel peace laureate, who has confronted across the board feedback over her nation's treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority.
In an announcement he stated: "Her relationship with our city disgraces every one of us and we ought to have no truck with it, even as a matter of course. We respected her, now she horrifies and disgraces us."
Mr Geldof said he was a "pleased Dubliner" yet couldn't keep on holding the opportunity while Ms Suu Kyi additionally held it.
He included: "so, I don't wish to be related in any capacity with an individual presently occupied with the mass ethnic purifying of the Rohingya individuals of north-west Burma.
"I am an establishing supporter of The Aegis Trust, who are worried about genocide aversion and studies. Its authors assembled and keep up the National Holocaust Museum of the UK.
"I talked at the inaugural National Holocaust Memorial Day at Westminster and in my opportunity, I have strolled among people groups who were sectionally focused with ethnic purging.
"I would be a wolf in sheep's clothing now were I to impart respects to one who has progressed toward becoming, best case scenario an assistant to kill, complicit in ethnic purifying and a handmaiden to genocide."
More than 600,000 of the minority bunch have fled the northern Rakhine state into neighboring Bangladesh since August, prompting a noteworthy philanthropic emergency.
