I Came Across: Aung San Suu Kyi

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Born: June 19, 1945, Yangon, Myanmar.
Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of the legendary liberation movement leader Aung San.
She is a Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma.
She was one of the founders of the NLD.
From 1988 she led the opposition to the military junta that had ruled Burma since 1962.
In 1989, the government placed Suu Kyi under house arrest and she spent 15 of the next 21 years in custody. She was finally released from house arrest in November 2010.
She won The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights".

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