Aung San Suu Kyi
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Aung San Suu Kyi MP AC (Burmese: ; MLCTS: aung hcan: cu. krany, /aʊŋˌsæn.suːˈtʃiː/,[1] Burmese pronunciation: [àʊɴ sʰáɴ sṵ tɕì]; born 19 Juin 1945) is a Burmese politeecian, umwhile State Coonsellor (de-facto leader o Myanmar) an chairperson o the Naitional League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma. In the 1990 general election, the NLD wan 59% o the naitional votes an 81% (392 of 485) o the seats in Parliament.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] She haed, houiver, already been detained unner hoose arrest afore the elections. She remained unner hoose reest in Burma for almaist 15 o the 21 years frae 20 Julie 1989 till her maist recent release on 13 November 2010,[9] acomin ane o the warld's maist prominent poletical prisoners.[10]
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi MP AC | |
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Aung San Suu Kyi in September 2016 | |
State Coonsellor o Myanmar | |
In office 6 Aprile 2016 – 1 Februar 2021 | |
Preses | Htin Kyaw Myint Swe (actin) Win Myint |
Precedit bi | Thein Sein (Prime Meenister, 2011) |
Succeedit bi | Min Aung Hlaing (Preses o the State Administration Cooncil) |
Meenister o Foreign Affairs | |
In office 30 Mairch 2016 – 1 Februar 2021 | |
Preses | Htin Kyaw Myint Swe (actin) Win Myint |
Depute | Kyaw Tin |
Precedit bi | Wunna Maung Lwin |
Succeedit bi | Wunna Maung Lwin |
Meenister o the Preses' Office | |
In office 30 March 2016 – 1 Februar 2021 | |
Preses | Htin Kyaw Myint Swe (actin) Win Myint |
Precedit bi | Aung Min Hla Tun Soe Maung Soe Thein Thein Nyunt |
Succeedit bi | Vacant |
Preses o the Naitional League for Democracy | |
Assumed office 18 November 2011 | |
Precedit bi | Aung Shwe |
Leader o the Opposeetion | |
In office 2 Mey 2012 – 29 Januar 2016 | |
Preses | Thein Sein |
Precedit bi | Sai Hla Kyaw |
General Secretar o the Naitional League for Democracy | |
In office 27 September 1988 – 18 November 2011 | |
Precedit bi | Position established |
Succeedit bi | Position abolished |
Member o the Burmese Hoose o Representatives for Kawhmu | |
In office 2 Mey 2012 – 30 Mairch 2016 | |
Precedit bi | Soe Tint |
Succeedit bi | Vacant |
Majority | 46,73 (71.38%) |
Personal details | |
Born | (1945-06-19) 19 Juin 1945 (age 78) Rangoon, Breetish Burma (nou Yangon) |
Poleetical pairty | Naitional League for Democracy |
Spoose(s) | Michael Aris (m. 1971; weed. 1999) |
Relations | Aung San (faither) Khin Kyi (mither) |
Bairns | Alexander Kim |
Alma mater | Varsity o Delhi St Hugh's College, Oxford SOAS, Varsity o Lunnon |
Religion | Theravada Buddhism |
Awairds | Rafto Prize Nobel Peace Prize Jawaharlal Nehru Awaird Internaitional Simón Bolívar Prize Olof Palme Prize Bhagwan Mahavir Warld Peace Congressional Gowd Medal |
Suu Kyi received the Rafto Prize an the Sakharov Prize for Freedom o Thocht in 1990 an the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992 she wis awairdit the Jawaharlal Nehru Awaird for Internaitional Unnerstaundin bi the govrenment o Indie an the Internaitional Simón Bolívar Prize frae the govrenment o Venezuela. In 2007, the Govrenment o Canadae made her an honorary ceetizen o that kintra,[11] the fowerth person ever tae receive the honour.[12] In 2011, she wis awairdit the Wallenberg Medal.[13] On 19 September 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi wis an aa presentit wi the Congressional Gowd Medal, which is, alang wi the Presidential Medal o Freedom, the heichest civilian honour in the Unitit States.[14]
On 1 Aprile 2012, her pairty, the Naitional League for Democracy, annoonced that she wis elected tae the Pyithu Hluttaw, the lawer hoose o the Burmese parliament, representin the constituency o Kawhmu;[15] her pairty an aa wan 43 o the 45 vacant seats in the lawer hoose.[16] The election results wur confirmed bi the offeecial electoral commission the followin day.[17]
On 6 Juin 2013, Suu Kyi annoonced on the Warld Economic Forum’s wabsteid that she wants tae run for the presidency in Myanmar's 2015 elections.[18] She wisnae permittit tae run for Preses acause her sons are Breetish ceetizens; instead o acomin Preses, she acame State Coonsellor o Myanmar (de-facto leader o the kintra) in 2016, efter her pairty won the previous year's walin.
Syne acomin State Coonsellor, Suu Kyi haes faced internaitional creeticism ower her inaction on the persecution an killins o the Rohingya fowk in the wastren-Burmese Rakhine State an the resultin humanitarian creesis. Mony awairds were strippit frae her, incluidin the Freedom o the Ceety o Glesga, while ither Nobel Peace Prize laureates the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu an Malala Yousafzai creeticised her response tae the creesis.
Suu Kyi's Naitional League for Democracy won elections in 2020, but wis oustit in a militar coup on 1 Februar 2021.