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Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese
politician. She has won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991
In the 1990 general election, her National League for Democracy
party won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament.She
had, however, detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained
under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989
until her most recent release on 13 November 2010.
Aung San Suu Kyi is the leader of the struggle for human rights and democracy in
Burma. Born in 1945 as the daughter of Burma's national hero Aung San, she was
two years old when he was assassinated, just before Burma gained the
independence to which he had dedicated his life. After receiving her education
in Rangoon, Delhi and at Oxford University, Aung San Suu Kyi then worked at the
United Nations in New York and Bhutan. For most of the following twenty years
she was occupied raising a family in England (her husband was British), before
returning to Burma in 1988 to care for her dying mother. Her return coincided
with the outbreak of a spontaneous revolt against 26 years of political
repression and economic decline. Aung San Suu Kyi ('Suu' to her friends and
family) quickly emerged as the most effective and articulate leader of the
movement, and the party she founded went on to win a colossal electoral victory
in May 1990, even though she had been put under house arrest in July 1989. After
the election the military rulers refused to transfer power to a civilian
government as it had promised, and kept Aung San Suu Kyi under arrest until July
1995.
Aung San Sun Kyi is an honorary fellow of Oxford University. In 1991 she was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In its citation the Norwegian Nobel Committee
stated that in awarding the Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi, it wished 'to honour this
woman for her unflagging efforts and to show its support for the many people
throughout the world who are striving to attain democracy, human rights and
ethnic conciliation by peaceful means'. Aung San Suu Kyi is also author of
several books, including Freedom from Fear and The Voice of Hope.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is modest and soft spoken.
And depending on whether you believe the military rulers of Burma or the Nobel
committee, she is either a puppet of imperialism or one of the most courageous
women alive.
The woman who has challenged one of the world's most repressive military regimes
stands only five-foot-four inches and weighs only 100 pounds. She usually
appears in public with flowers pinned behind her ears, adding to her fragrant
appeal. But her petite appearance and gentle manners take nothing away from her
tremendous conviction
Suu Kyi received the Rafto Prize and the
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 . In 1992 she was awarded the
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding by the government of
India and the International Simón Bolívar Prize from the government of
Venezuela. In 2007, the Government of Canada made her an honorary citizen of
that country,one of only five people ever to receive the honor. In 2011, she was
awarded the Wallenberg Medal.
( Courtesy:
http://gury.orgfree.com/suukyi1.htm )
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