Canada's Parliament voted unanimously to take away the honorary citizenship granted to Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi because of her failure to stop the Rohingya crisis in her country, which the UN considers a genocide.

Suu Kyi became a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1991 for her opposition to the Myanmar military dictatorship's heavy-handed rule.  In 2007, Suu Kyi became one of only six people to be lauded by Canada with honorary citizenship; she's definitely the first to lose honorary citizenship. 

As leader of the majority party, Suu Kyi became the de facto head of state in 2015 amid great hopes of a democratic reformation that would end decades of repression. 

But the Myanmar military's crackdown on the minority Rohingya Muslim community dashed that euphoria.  While 700,000 Rohingya were driven from their ancestral homes in Rakhine state under the pretext they were "illegal aliens" from Bangladesh, Suu Kyi was initially silent.  As it became clear that thousands were murdered by nationalist mobs and Myanmar troops, Suu Kyi would insult foreign critics by saying they couldn't understand the intricacies of who was was a "real" citizen and who wasn't.

Canada's House of COmmons earlier this month already passed a resolution recognising the crimes against the Rohingya as an act of genocide.