Aung San Suu Kyi | Wikipedia audio article
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Aung San Suu Kyi


00:03:09 1 Name
00:03:53 2 Personal life
00:08:37 3 Political career
00:08:46 3.1 Political beginning
00:11:22 3.2 1990 general election and Nobel Peace Prize
00:13:55 3.3 1996 attack
00:14:56 3.4 House arrest
00:17:48 3.5 United Nations involvement
00:22:07 3.6 Periods under detention
00:23:32 3.7 2007 anti-government protests
00:24:23 3.8 2009 trespass incident
00:28:50 3.9 Late 2000s: International support for release
00:33:56 3.10 2010 release
00:36:56 3.11 2012 by-elections
00:40:53 3.12 2015 general election
00:43:29 3.13 Foreign Minister and State Counsellor (2016–present)
00:45:14 3.13.1 Response to violence against Rohingya Muslims and refugees
00:53:28 3.13.2 Arrests and prosecution of journalists
00:55:27 4 Political beliefs
00:56:49 5 Related organisations
01:03:53 6 In popular culture
01:05:16 7 Health problems
01:05:48 8 Books
01:06:02 9 Honours
01:06:14 10 See also



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Aung San Suu Kyi (; Burmese: အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်; MLCTS: aung hcan: cu. krany Burmese pronunciation: [àʊɴ sʰáɴ sṵ tɕì]; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991). She is the leader of the National League for Democracy and the first and incumbent State Counsellor, a position akin to a prime minister. She is also the first woman to serve as Minister for Foreign Affairs, for the President's Office, for Electric Power and Energy, and for Education. From 2012 to 2016 she was an MP for Kawhmu Township to the House of Representatives.
The youngest daughter of Aung San, Father of the Nation of modern-day Myanmar, and Khin Kyi, Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon, British Burma. After graduating from the University of Delhi in 1964 and the University of Oxford in 1968, she worked at the United Nations for three years. She married Michael Aris in 1972, with whom she had two children. Aung San Suu Kyi rose to prominence in the 1988 Uprisings, and became the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), which she had newly formed with the help of several retired army officials who criticized the military junta. In the 1990 elections, NLD won 81% of the seats in Parliament, but the results were nullified, as the military refused to hand over power, resulting in an international outcry. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest for almost 15 of the 21 years from 1989 to 2010, becoming one of the world's most prominent political prisoners.
Her party boycotted the 2010 elections, resulting in a decisive victory for the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party. Aung San Suu Kyi became a Pyithu Hluttaw MP while her party won 43 of the 45 vacant seats in the 2012 by-elections. In the 2015 elections, her party won a landslide victory, taking 86% of the seats in the Assembly of the Union – well more than the 67 percent supermajority needed to ensure that its preferred candidates were elected President and Second Vice President in the Presidential Electoral College. Although she was prohibited from becoming the President due to a clause in the constitution – her late husband and children are foreign citizens – she assumed the newly created role of State Counsellor, a role akin to a Prime Minister or a head of government. Aung San Suu Kyi's honours include the Nobel Peace Prize, which she won in 1991. Time Magazine named her one of the "Children of Gandhi" and his spiritual heir to non-violence.Since ascending to the office of State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi has drawn criticism from many countries, organisations and figures over her inaction to the persecution of the Rohingya people in Rakhine State and refusal to accept that Myanmar's military has committed massacres. Under her leadership, Myanmar has also drawn international criticism for prosecutions of journalists.