Aung San Suu Kyi has also been criticized internationally for the weakening of freedom of the press as the State Counsellor of Myanmar .
Monash University , The Australian National University , University of Sydney and University of Technology , Sydney conferred an honorary degree to Aung San Suu Kyi in November 2013.Her tenure as State Counsellor of Myanmar has drawn international criticism for her failure to address her country 's economic and ethnic problems , particularly the plight of the Rohingya following the 25 August 2017 ARSA attacks ( described as `` certainly one of the biggest refugee crises and cases of ethnic cleansing since the second world war '' ) , and for her style of leadership , described as imperious and `` distracted and out of touch '' .