Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She rose to prominence in the 1988 Uprisings, and became the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy. Her party boycotted the 2010 elections, resulting in a decisive victory for the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party. In the 2015 elections, her party won a landslide victory, taking 86% of the seats in the Assembly of the Union.
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Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is the first and incumbent State Counsellor of Myanmar. She rose to prominence in the 1988 Uprisings, and became the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy. Her party boycotted the 2010 elections, resulting in a decisive victory for the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party. In the 2015 elections, her party won a landslide victory, taking 86% of the seats in the Assembly of the Union – well more than the 67% supermajority needed to ensure that its preferred candidates were elected President and Second Vice President in the Presidential Electoral College. She has drawn criticism over Myanmar’s inaction in response to the genocide of the Rohingya people in Rakhine State and refusal to accept that Myanmar’s military has committed massacres. Under her leadership, Myanmar has also drawn criticism for prosecutions of journalists. In 2019, she appeared in the International Court of Justice where she defended the Bur mese military against allegations of genocide against the Rohingya. She was born on 19 June 1945 in Rangoon, British Burma. Her father was Aung San, Father of the Nation of modern-day Myanmar, and her mother was Khin Kyi. Her elder brother emigrated to the United States, becoming a United States citizen.
She married Michael Aris in 1972, with whom she had two children. She remained under house arrest for almost 15 of the 21 years from 1989 to 2010, becoming one of the world’s most prominent political prisoners. In 1999, Time Magazine named her one of the \”Children of Gandhi\” and his spiritual heir to nonviolence. She became a Pyithu Hluttaw MP in the 2012 by-elections. Her late husband and children are foreign citizens – she assumed the newly created role of State Coun Sellor, a role akin to a Prime Minister or a head of government. She grew up with her mother, KhinKyi, and two brothers, AungSan Lin and Aungsan San Lin, in a house on the grounds of Lake Ryao. She graduated from the University of Delhi in 1964 and University of Oxford in 1968, and worked at the U.N. for three years. Her name is derived from three relatives: \”AungSan\” from her father, \”Suu\” fromHer paternal grandmother, and \”Kyi\’ from her mother Khinkyi. The BurMese refer to her as Daw, literally meaning ‘aunt’, is not part of her name but is an honorific for any older and revered woman, akin to ‘Madam’ She is also known as Amay Suu or Daw Suu. She is married to Michael Ar is, and they have two children, who live in San Diego, California, where she has a son and a daughter. She also has a daughter, Kyi Suu, who lives in Myanmar.
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