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my position established tun yi alexander kim theravada buddhism rangoon , burma -lrb- now yangon -rrb- thein sein rafto award international simón bolívar prize olof palme prize bhagwan mahavir prize world peace congressional gold medal sakharov prize nobel peace prize jawaharlal nehru national league for democracy aung san suu kyi
 chairperson democracy leader of the opposition member of the burmese house and of representatives general secretary of the national league for 19 june 1945 27 september 1988 2 may 2012 michael -rrb- aris -lrb- 1971 -- 1999 , his death awards remise strasbourg 22 octobre 2013-18 . jpg du prix sakharov à aung san suu kyi aung san suu kyi signature 2013 . svg aung san suu kyi university university of london of delhi st hugh 's college , oxford
aung san suu kyi

aung san suu kyi ac -lrb- , , ; born 19 june 1945 -rrb- is a burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the national league for democracy -lrb- nld -rrb- in burma .
in the 1990 general election , the nld won 59 % of the national votes and 81 % -lrb- 392 of 485 -rrb- of the seats in parliament .
she had , however , already been detained under house arrest before the elections .
she remained under house arrest in burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 july 1989 until her most recent release on 13 november 2010 , becoming one of the world 's most prominent political prisoners .
suu kyi received the rafto prize and the sakharov prize for freedom of thought in 1990 and the nobel peace prize in 1991 .
in 1992 she was awarded the jawaharlal nehru award for international understanding by the government of india and the international simón bolívar prize from the government of venezuela .
in 2012 , the government of pakistan awarded her shaheed benazir bhutto award for democracy .
in 2007 , the government of canada made her an honorary citizen of that country , the fourth person ever to receive the honour .
in 2011 , she was awarded the wallenberg medal .
on 19 september 2012 , aung san suu kyi was also presented with the congressional gold medal , which is , along with the presidential medal of freedom , the highest civilian honour in the united states .
on 1 april 2012 , her party , the national league for democracy , announced that she was elected to the pyithu hluttaw , the lower house of the burmese parliament , representing the constituency of kawhmu ; her party also won 43 of the 45 vacant seats in the lower house .
the election results were confirmed by the official electoral commission the following day .
on 6 june 2013 , suu kyi announced on the world economic forum 's website that she wants to run for the presidency in myanmar 's 2015 elections .
suu kyi is prohibited , however , from becoming president within the current constitution ; this can not be amended without the approval of at least one military legislator .
as of 2014 , she is listed as the 61st most powerful woman in the world by `` forbes '' .
