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  Aung San Suu Kyi,
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AffiliationNational League for Democracy  
<-  2013-01-01  
 
Name Aung San Suu Kyi
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Yangon, , Burma (Myanmar)
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Websitehttp://www.dassk.com/
Born June 19, 1945 (78 years)
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Last ModifedJuan Croniqueur
Aug 30, 2023 12:35pm
Tags Asian - Widowed - Imprisoned - Buddhist - Straight -
InfoDaw Aung San Suu Kyi; born June 19, 1945 in Rangoon, Burma (which is now known as Yangon, Myanmar), is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist in Myanmar. In 1991, she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

She is the daughter of General Aung San, who negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in 1947 and was assassinated by rivals in the same year. She studied at Oxford, England, United Kingdom, where she met her future husband, Michael Aris, with whom she has two children, Alexander and Kim. She also studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

She returned to Myanmar in 1988 to care for her ailing mother. In that year, the long-time leader of the socialist ruling party, General Ne Win, stepped down, leading to mass demonstrations for democratization, which were violently suppressed. A new military junta took power. Heavily influenced by Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence, Aung San Suu Kyi entered politics to work for democratization and was put under house arrest in 1989. She was offered freedom if she would leave the country, but she refused.

The military junta called general elections in 1990, which Aung San Suu Kyi's party "National League for Democracy" won decisively. Under normal circumstances, she would have assumed the office of Prime Minister, however the results were nullified and the military refused to hand over power. This resulted in an international outcry and partly led to Suu Kyi winning the Nobel Peace Prize in the following year. She used the $1.3 million prize money to establish a health and education trust for the Burmese people.

She was released from house arrest in July 1995; it was made clear that, should she leave the country to visit her family in the United Kingdom, she would be denied re-entry. She stayed, and never met her husband again; he died in 1999.

She was repeatedly prevented from meeting with her party supporters, and in September 2000, she was again put under house arrest. On May 6, 2002, following secret confidence-building negotiations led by the United Nations, she was released; a government spokesman said that she was free to move "because we are confident that we can trust each other." Aung San Suu Kyi proclaimed "a new dawn for the country." However at the end of May 2003 she was arrested again. After a period of imprisonment and undergoing an operation in September she was placed again under house arrest in Yangon.


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Date Category Headline Article Contributor
Apr 27, 2022 09:00am Legal Ruling Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar sentences ex-leader to jail for corruption  Article IndyGeorgia 
Sep 12, 2018 09:10am Perspective Hope fades: Posters of Aung San Suu Kyi gather dust as image tarnishes  Article IndyGeorgia 
Nov 18, 2011 02:00pm Announcement Aung San Suu Kyi to stand for parliament in Burma  Article IndyGeorgia 
Nov 13, 2010 04:20pm Announcement Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi released  Article IndyGeorgia 
May 14, 2009 03:00am News Suu Kyi Charged Over Intrusion, Lawyer Says  Article Jason 

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FAMILY
Father Aung San 1915-1947
Grandfather U Pha 0000-
Uncle Aung Than 0000-

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RACES
  03/30/2018 Myanmar Minister of Foreign Affairs Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  03/30/2018 Myanmar Minister of the Office of the President Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  04/06/2016 Myanmar (Burma) State Counselor Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  04/01/2012 Burma House of Representatives Kawhmu By-election Won 85.38% (+71.38%)
  10/10/1991 Nobel Peace Prize Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  05/27/1990 Prime Minister of Burma (Myanmar) Won 78.87% (+67.61%)
SPECULATIVE, DID NOT RUN
  03/15/2016 Myanmar (Burma) President Lost 0.00% (-55.21%)
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