Aung san suu kyi date of birth

Aung san suu kyi: nobel prize revoked

She has served as the general secretary of the National League for Democracy NLD since the party's founding in and was registered as its chairperson while it was a legal party from to She married Michael Aris in , with whom she had two children. Aung San Suu Kyi rose to prominence in the Uprising of 8 August 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.

She had been detained before the elections and remained under house arrest for almost 15 of the 21 years from to , becoming one of the world's most prominent political prisoners. Although she was prohibited from becoming the president due to a clause in the Myanmar constitution —her late husband and children are foreign citizens—she assumed the newly created role of State Counsellor of Myanmar , a role akin to a prime minister or a head of government.

When she ascended to the office of state counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi drew criticism from several countries, organisations and figures over Myanmar's inaction in response to the genocide of the Rohingya people in Rakhine State and refusal to acknowledge that the Myanmar's military had committed massacres. Several charges were filed against her, and on 6 December , she was sentenced to four years in prison on two of them.

Later, on 10 January , she was sentenced to an additional four years on another set of charges. Aung San Suu Kyi's final sentence was of 33 years in prison, [ 19 ] later reduced to 27 years. Aung San Suu Kyi , like other Burmese names , includes no surname, but is only a personal name, in her case derived from three relatives: " Aung San " from her father, "Suu" from her paternal grandmother, and "Kyi" from her mother Khin Kyi.

Daw , literally meaning "aunt", is not part of her name but is an honorific for any older and revered woman, akin to " Madam ". Aung San founded the modern Burmese army and negotiated Burma's independence from the United Kingdom in ; he was assassinated by his rivals in the same year. Aung San Lin died at the age of eight when he drowned in an ornamental lake on the grounds of the house.

Michael Aris. She also worked for the government of the Union of Burma. Aris' visit in Christmas was the last time that he and Aung San Suu Kyi met, as she remained in Burma and the Burmese dictatorship denied him any further entry visas. She was at that time temporarily free from house arrest but was unwilling to depart, fearing that she would be refused re-entry if she left, as she did not trust the military junta 's assurance that she could return.