Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician and Chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar. She became an international symbol of peaceful resistance against oppression in Burma as she spoke out against the brutal dictatorship and initiated a nonviolent movement toward democracy and human rights. For her ongoing efforts, she was placed under house arrest for 15 of 21 years and won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2012, following an exhausting campaign, Suu Kyi's party announced she had won election and she took office as Chairperson of the National League of Democracy.
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician and Chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar. She became an international symbol of peaceful resistance against oppression in Burma as she spoke out against the brutal dictatorship and initiated a nonviolent movement toward democracy and human rights. For her ongoing efforts, she was placed under house arrest for 15 of 21 years and won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2012, following an exhausting campaign, Suu Kyi's party announced she had won election and she took office as Chairperson of the National League of Democracy.
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician and Chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar. She became an international symbol of peaceful resistance against oppression in Burma as she spoke out against the brutal dictatorship and initiated a nonviolent movement toward democracy and human rights. For her ongoing efforts, she was placed under house arrest for 15 of 21 years and won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2012, following an exhausting campaign, Suu Kyi's party announced she had won election and she took office as Chairperson of the National League of Democracy.
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician and Chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar. She became an international symbol of peaceful resistance against oppression in Burma as she spoke out against the brutal dictatorship and initiated a nonviolent movement toward democracy and human rights. For her ongoing efforts, she was placed under house arrest for 15 of 21 years and won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2012, following an exhausting campaign, Suu Kyi's party announced she had won election and she took office as Chairperson of the National League of Democracy.
BACKGROUND Aung San Suu Kyi's father, formerly the de facto prime minister of British Burma, was assassinated in 1947. Her mother, Khin Kyi, was appointed ambassador to India in 1960. Suu Kyi obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford in 1969, and in 1972, she married. She had two childrenin 1973 and 1977and the family spent the 1970s and 1980s in England, the United States and India. In 1988, Suu Kyi returned to Burma to care for her dying mother, and her life took a dramatic turn.
EXPERIENCE Languages Burmese, Japanese, French, English
Professions Political Leader of Myanmar (Burma) Freedom Fighter of Myanmar (Burma) Chairperson of the NLD
Awards and Achievements
Chairperson of the NLD 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Congressional Gold Medal Honorary Citizen of Canada
ROLE IN GLOBAL HISTORY
1988-2012 Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi, opposition leader in Myanmar, became an international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression. San Suu Kyi returned to Burma in 1988, after years living and studying abroad, only to find widespread slaughter of protesters rallying against the brutal rule of dictator U Ne Win. She spoke out against him and initiated a nonviolent movement toward achieving democracy and human rights. In 1989, the government placed Suu Kyi under house arrest, and she spent 15 of the next 21 years in custody. In 1991, her ongoing efforts won her the Nobel Prize for Peace, and she was finally released from house arrest in November 2010. In 2011, the National League for Democracy announced that it would re-register as a political party. In 2012, following a grueling and exhausting campaign, the NLD announced that Suu Kyi had won her election. A news broadcast confirmed her victory, and on May 2, 2012, Suu Kyi took her oath and took office.
2012- Chairperson of the National League of Democracy
SKILLS 2012 Honorary Acceptance Speech, Oxford, Has political, verbal, and reformation strengths in speaking.
FUN FACTS 1964 Graduated from University of Delhi with politics degree, [School] She has only seen her husband five times, the last time being Christmas in 1995 before his death on his birthday on March 27, 1999.
