Aung San Suu Kyi
(b. 1945), Burmese political leader and activist. Daughter of national hero and martyr Aung San (1915–1947), who was assassinated when she was only two years old, Aung San Suu ...
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Aung San Suu Kyi
BURMESE POLITICAL LEADER1945–
Aung San Suu Kyi, like the former South African leader Nelson Mandela (b. 1918), is an international symbol of peaceful resistance to an oppressiv...
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Born June 19, 1945 Yangon (formerly Rangoon), Myanmar (formerly Burma)
Prodemocracy activist
Although Aung San Suu Kyi spent most of her life outside of her native Burma, she always...
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In 1988 Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945) became the preeminent leader in Burma (now Myanmar) of the movement toward the reestablishment of democracy in that state. In 1991, while under house arrest, she w...
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Key events in life of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi:_ June 19, 1945: Born in Rangoon, main city now known as Yangon._ January 1947: Britain agrees to give Burma independence after nego...
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Yangon (dpa) - Keeping one step ahead of Myanmar's military regime
in their new forms of passive protests, a group of political
activists paid a sympathy call Sunday on two ...
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State media on Thursday accused pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi of evading taxes by spending her money from the 1991 Nobel Peace prize and other awards overseas.Suu Kyi, the country's opposit...
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Yangon (dpa) - Khin Saw, the 101-year-old aunt of Nobel peace
laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has died, family sources said.
Khin Saw, the wife of Suu Kyi's uncle Ba Win,...
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Following is the text of the statement by Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, released Thursday by U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari.___"I wish to thank all those who have stood by my side all thi...
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Yangon (dpa) - Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kye was
permitted Friday to leave her home, where she is under house arrest,
to meet a senior member of the military ...
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Yangon (dpa) - Brushing off calls by the international community
for her release, Myanmar's ruling junta has sentenced opposition
leader Aung San Suu Kyi, 61, to another yea...
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Yangon (dpa) - Myanmar's ruling junta has extended Aung San Suu
Kyi's house arrest by another year to assure the successful
conclusion of the National Convention process, a ...
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Yangon (dpa) - United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari met democracy
icon Aung San Suu Kyi Sunday in Yangon as part of his mission to
assess the country's situation in the afte...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Almost 60 former world leaders and heads of state
on Tuesday issued a letter to Myanmar's junta leader urging him to
immediately release Aung San Suu Kyi, wh...
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi
Key events in Aung San Suu Kyi's life
