Watch: Myanmar beauty queen calls Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army 'terrorist organisation', stripped of title
Myanmar beauty queen
In a video posted on Facebook, she accused the Rohingya Muslims to 'act as if they are the oppressed'?to win 'media support'
A Myanmar beauty queen has been stripped of her title after she posted a video accusingRohingya Muslims of driving communal violence in the Rakhine state of Myanmar.
Shwe Eain Si, 19, who was Miss Grand Myanmar, posted a video on Facebook last week describing the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) a "caliphate-style movement"and said she was using her fame to "speak out the truth".
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She can be seen talking in English in the video along with graphic images of dead bodiesincluding those of children. She branded ARSA a "terrorist organisation" that was "acting as if they are the oppressed".
In her posts, she blamed theARSA ofviolence, accusing the "militants"of turning on their own people and then orchestrating a media campaign to win international support.
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Organisers of the Miss Universe Myanmar on Sunday took a decision to strip her of her title. They did not mention the video while making the announcementbut said that she "had breached the contract rules"and had "not behaved like a role model".
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The organisers have stripped her of the title as she 'failed to project a decent image of a pageant contestant'. (Others)
After the announcement came on Sunday, she posted a reply on Facebook on Tuesday calling the accusations as "groundless".
Myanmar's army has been accused of waging an "ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya" resulting in more than half a million of the Muslim minority to flee the border to Bangladesh since August 25.
In the face of intense global condemnation, Myanmar authorities havedefended the security operation as a legitimate crackdown on Rohingya militants who attacked police posts last month.
This is not the first time when a beauty queen from Myanmar has been in the middle of a controversy.
In 2014, a Myanmar beauty queen wasdethroned for alleged dishonesty and bad behaviour, after which she ran off with her crown to South Korea.