Aung San Suu Ki

AUNG SAN SUU KI ABOUT Aung San Suu Kyi is aBurmeseoppositionpolitician andchairwomanof theNational League for majority rule(NLD) in Burma. In the1990 general election, the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had, how incessantly, already been detained under field of operations comprisebefore the elections. She remained under house mystify in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most youthful release on 13November 2010, enough unmatchable of the worlds most prominent policy-making prisoners.HOW SHE BACAME THE PERSON SHE IS Her father,Aung San, founded themodern Burmese arrayand negotiated Burmas independence from theBritish Empirein 1947 he wasassassinated by his rivalsin the same year. She grew up with her mother,Khin Kyi, and two brothers, Aung San Lin andAung San Oo, in Rangoon. Aung San Lin died at age eight, when he drowned in an ornamental lake on the grounds of the house. Her elderly brother i mmigrated to San Diego, California, becoming a fall in States citizen.After Aung San Lins death, the family moved to a house byInya Lakewhere Suu Kyi met flock of very different backgrounds, semipolitical views and religions. Suu Kyis mother,Khin Kyi, gained prominence as a political figure in the newly create Burmese government. She was appointed Burmese ambassador toIndiaandNepalin 1960, and Aung San Suu Kyi followed her there, she studied in the Convent of savior and Mary School, New Delhi and graduated fromnoblewoman Shri Ram Collegein New Delhi with a degree in politics in 1964.Suu Kyi continued her education atSt Hughs College, Oxford, obtaining a B. A. degree inPhilosophy, Politics and economicsin 1969. She trifleed at theUnited Nationsfor tierce years, primarily on budget matters. She clear a PhD at theSchool of eastern and African Studies,University of Londonin 1985. She was pick out as an Honorary teammate in 1990. For two years she was a Fellow at the Indian In stitute of move Studies (IIAS) inShimla, India. She also worked for thegovernment of the coupling of Burma.Coincident with Aung San Suu Kyis return to Burma in 1988, the long- era military attracter of Burma and head of theruling party, GeneralNe Win, stepped down. Mass demonstrations for democracy followed that event on 8 August 1988 ,which were violently hold in in what came to be known as the8888 Uprising. On 26 August 1988, she address half a million people at a mass bait in front of the Shwedagon Pagodain the capital, craft for a democratic government.However in September, anew military junta similarlyk power. Influenced by bothMahatma Gandhis philosophy ofnon-violence and more specifically by Buddhist concepts, Aung San Suu Kyi entered politics to work fordemocratization, helped found theNational League for Democracyon 27 September 1988, merely was put underhouse tabon 20 July 1989. She was offered freedom if she left the country, she refused. One of her most famous s peeches was independence From Fear, which began It is not power that corrupts, further fear.Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the devastate of power corrupts those who are subject to it. She campaigned once more and again to instill her countries faith in democracy and impose human beneficial . She chose nonviolent paths to reach this goal that Burma too be a democratic country. post ARREST Aung San Suu Kyi has been placed underhouse arrestfor 15 of the past 21 years, on different occasions, since she began her political career, during which time she was prevented from meeting her party supporters and international visitors.PRIZES Suu Kyi accepted theRafto plunderingand theSakharov Prize for Freedom of designin 1990 and theNobel Peace Prizein 1991. In 1992 she was awarded theJawaharlal Nehru Award for International perceptivenessby the government of India and theInternational Simon Bolivar Prizefrom the government of Venezuela. In 2007, the Gover nment of Canada make her an honorary citizen of that country at the time, she was one of only four people ever to receive the honor. In 2011, she was awarded theWallenberg Medal.