Aung San Suu Kyi rose to prominence in the 8888 Uprising of 8 August 1988 and became the General Secretary of the NLD, which she had newly formed with the help of several retired army officials who criticised the military junta.

3 days ago · Aung San Suu Kyi (born June 19, 1945, Rangoon, Burma [now Yangon, Myanmar]) is a politician and opposition leader of Myanmar, daughter of Aung San (a martyred national hero of independent Burma) and Khin Kyi (a prominent Burmese diplomat), and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991.

Dec 6, 2021 · In 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while still under house arrest, and hailed as "an outstanding example of the power of the powerless". In 2015, she led her...

Apr 2, 2014 · Aung San Suu Kyi is the state counsellor of Myanmar and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace. (1945-) Who Is Aung San Suu Kyi? Born in Yangon, Myanmar, in 1945, Aung San Suu Kyi spent...

The Burmese Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of the legendary liberation movement leader Aung San. Following studies abroad, she returned home in 1988. From then on, she led the opposition to the military junta that had ruled Burma since 1962.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 was awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights"

Dec 30, 2022 · A Myanmar military court has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a further seven years in prison, taking her overall jail time to 33 years. The country's former democratically-elected leader...

Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945 in Yangon, Burma) is a human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and State Counsellor of Myanmar. Suu Kyi was not able to be president. Instead, she became the State Counsellor of Myanmar. [2] She brought some democracy to her country with nonviolence.

Aung San Suu Kyi, (born June 19, 1945, Rangoon, Burma [now Yangon, Myan.]), Opposition leader in Myanmar (Burma). Daughter of nationalist leader Aung San, she studied in Burma and India and at the University of Oxford. She lived quietly in …

Jan 31, 2025 · Benedict Rogers’ recent article, “The world must end its silence on Aung San Suu Kyi” (Union of Catholic Asian News, January 17, 2025) indulges in distorted half-truths. Despite his so-called good intentions, Rogers casts Suu Kyi as the villain in a tragedy engineered by the very military she has consistently opposed.