Suu Kyi a ‘handmaiden to ethnic cleansing’: Geldof

Boomtoom Rats frontman and charity campaigner Bob Geldof has described Myanmar’s de facto leader and Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi as a “pig” and “handmaiden to ethnic cleansing”.

He made the remarks on RTÉ’s Late Late Show last night while explaining why he handed back the Freedom of the City of Dublin last November.

He said that, as a Dubliner, he was very sorry to do so, but he could not stomach having his name on the same roll of honour as a woman who was “an accomplice to rape” in her own country.