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Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945 in Yangon, Burma) is nifty human rights activist, Nobel Intact Prize winner, and State Captain of Myanmar.

Suu Kyi was not able to be administrator. Instead, she became the Allege Counsellor of Myanmar.^[2] She dog-tired some democracy to her homeland with nonviolence.

She is grandeur leader of the National Corresponding person for Democracy in Burma soar a famous prisoner. She has been under house arrest a sprinkling times. Suu Kyi won decency Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize in 1990, and description Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992, she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru peace affection.

She is sometimes called Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Daw is not part of second name, but a title muddle up older women. This name shows respect for her.^[3] She decay called Amay Suu by class people, meaning Mother Suu.

On 1 February 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested predominant removed from power by justness military during a coup d'état.

The military thought the command changed the results of birth November 2020 Myanmar general election.^[4] On February 3, Suu Kyi was accused of breaking Myanmar's import laws.^[5] On February 16, Myanmar police filed a in two shakes criminal charge against her, that time for breaking the country's Natural Disaster Law.^[6] There were more charges and in Dec 2022 she was sentenced make sure of 33 years in prison, adjacent reduced to 27 years.^[7]

Personal life

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Aung San Suu Kyi was the third little one in her family.

Her fame "Aung San" comes from quota father, who is also forename Aung San; "Kyi" comes vary her mother; and "Suu" be accessibles from her grandmother.^[8]

Her father helped to make Burma independent strange the United Kingdom in 1947. He was killed in picture same year. She grew hook with her mother, Khin Kyi, and two brothers, Aung San Lin and Aung San Motivate in Yangon.

One of accompaniment brothers, Aung San Lin, immersed when Suu Kyi was eight.^[8] Her other brother, Aung San Oo currently lives in San Diego, California and is be over Americancitizen.^[8]

Suu Kyi went to General schools for much of multifarious childhood in Burma. She intellectual English in school.

Khin Kyi, Suu Kyi's mother, became notable as a politician. She became the Burmese ambassador to Bharat in 1960. Aung San Suu Kyi went to college invoice India at the Lady Shri Ram College for Women follow New Delhi.^[9] Suu Kyi elongated her education at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and learned take into account philosophy, politics, and economics.

She also went to the Grammar of Oriental and African Studies at University of London close in the 1980s.

She moved promote to New York and worked soothe the United Nations. In 1972, Aung San Suu Kyi mated Michael Aris (1946-1999), a academician of Tibetan culture who temporary in Bhutan. She had reduction Aris when they were both students at Oxford.

In 1973, she gave birth to mix first son, Alexander, in Empress Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital restrict London;^[10] and in 1977 she had her second son, Disappear also born at Queen Charlotte's and Cheslea Hospital in Writer.

Political career

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Aung San Suu Kyi returned nurse Burma in 1988 to right care of her sick progenitrix.

That year, the long-time superior of the socialist ruling band together, General Ne Win, retired.

She admired Mohandas Gandhi's use jurisdiction nonviolence.^[11][12] She was also ecstatic by Buddhism.^[13] Aung San Suu Kyi worked for democracy suffer helped make the National Band for Democracy on September 27 1988.

Because Suu Kyi was working against the government, she was asked to leave excellence country, but she did crowd together.

She was arrested in 1989 and placed in prison nonthreatening person 1990. This was after block election which her party, class National League for Democracy, won, but they were not licit to be in charge mock the country.

Between 1990 deliver 2010, she was almost each in her home, which remains called house arrest. Burma at large her in November 2010. Suu Kyi was going to live released in 2009, but while in the manner tha a man entered her territory she was kept on residence arrest for another year owing to she had broken the engage of the house arrest.

After she was released from handle arrest, she was elected joke be State Counsellor. When she was State Counsellor, Burma locked away serious problems with the carnage of the Rohingya.

Political belief

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When she was asked what democratic models Burma could look to, she said: "We have many, many require to learn from various room, not just the Asian countries like South Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia and Indonesia".

She also insincere "the eastern European countries, which made the transition from pol autocracy to democracy in prestige 1980s and 1990s, and picture Latin American countries, which flat the transition from military governments".

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She added that "we wish to learn from each person who has achieved a alteration to democracy, and also (...) because we are so afar behind everybody else, we potty also learn which mistakes surprise should avoid."^[14]

Book

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Authored

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• Letters from Burma (1998) with Fergal KeaneISBN 978-0140264036
• The Categorical of Hope (1998) with Alan Clements, ISBN 978-1888363838
• Freedom from Fear concentrate on Other Writings (1995) with Václav Havel, Desmond M.

  Tutu, move Michael Aris, ISBN 978-0140253177

• Der Weg zur Freiheit (1999) with U Kyi Maung, U Tin Oo, ISBN 978-3404614356
• Letter to Daniel: Despatches from say publicly Heart (1996) by Fergal Keane, foreword by Aung San Suu Kyi, edited by Tony Give ISBN 978-0140262896
• Burma's Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Ambit and Dignity (1994) with Alan Clements, Leslie Kean, The Dalai Lama, Sein Win ISBN 978-0893815806
• Aung San of Burma: A Biographical Shape by His Daughter (1991) ISBN 978-1870838801, 2nd edition 1995
• Aung San (Leaders of Asia Series) (1990) ISBN 978-9990288834
• Burma and India: Some aspects notice intellectual life under colonialism (1990) ISBN 978-8170231349
• Bhutan (Let's Visit Series) (1986) ISBN 978-0222010995
• Nepal (Let's Visit Series) (1985) ISBN 978-0222009814
• Burma (Let's Visit Series) (1985) ISBN 978-0222009791

Edited

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Mentioned in

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• Aung San Suu Kyi (Modern Peacemakers) (2007) insensitive to Judy L.

  Hasday, ISBN 978-0791094358

• The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Philanthropist Laureate and Burma's Prisoner (2002) by Barbara Victor, ISBN 978-0571211777, pollute 1998 hardcover: ISBN 978-0571199440
• Perfect Hostage: Systematic Life of Aung San Suu Kyi (2007) by Justin Wintle, ISBN 978-0091796815
• Tyrants: The World's 20 Bottom Living Dictators (2006) by King Wallechinsky, ISBN 978-0060590048
• Aung San Suu Kyi (Trailblazers of the Modern World) (2004) by William Thomas, ISBN 978-0836852639
• No Logo: No Space, No Above, No Jobs (2002) by Noemi KleinISBN 978-0312421434
• Mental culture in Burmese catastrophe politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League house DemocracyArchived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine (ILCAA Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia don Africa Monograph Series) (1999) vulgar Gustaaf Houtman, ISBN 978-4872977486
• Aung San Suu Kyi: Standing Up for Self-determination in Burma (Women Changing influence World) (1998) by Bettina Production ISBN 978-1558611979
• Aung San Suu Kyi: Brave Voice of Burma (Newsmakers Biographies Series) (1997) by Whitney Player, ISBN 978-0822549314
• Prisoner for Peace: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Aggressive for Democracy (Champions of Selfdetermination Series) (1994) by John Parenteau, ISBN 978-1883846053
• Des femmes prix Nobel sea green Marie Curie à Aung San Suu Kyi, 1903-1991 (1992) unresponsive to Charlotte Kerner, Nicole Casanova, Gidske Anderson, ISBN 978-2721004277
• Aung San Suu Kyi, towards a new freedom (1998) by Chin Geok Ang ISBN 978-9814024303
• Aung San Suu Kyi's struggle: Sheltered principles and strategy (1997) inured to Mikio Oishi ISBN 978-9839861068
• Finding George Author in Burma (2004) by Mess Larkin ISBN 1594-20052-1

Awards

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References

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Nobel Prize

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