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Aung San Suu Kyi

Burmese politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for her role in Myanmar's democratic movement.

Aung San Suu Kyi is one of 1212 people in the A–Z index, listed under A.

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Known for: Leading Myanmar's transition towards democracy and serving as State Counsellor and Foreign Minister
Listed under: Nobel Laureates

About Aung San Suu Kyi

She played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial democracy in the 2010s. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. After graduating from the University of Delhi in 1964 and St Hugh's College, Oxford, in 1968, she worked at the United Nations for three years. She married Michael Aris in 1972, with whom she had two children. In the 1990 general election, the NLD won 81% of the seats in Parliament. She had been detained before the elections and 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. In 1999, Time magazine named her one of the "Children of Gandhi" and his spiritual heir to nonviolence. Her party boycotted the 2010 general election, resulting in a decisive victory for the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). Aung San Suu Kyi became a member of the Pyithu Hluttaw (House of Representatives) while her party won 43 of the 45 vacant seats in the 2012 by-elections. In the 2015 general election, her party won a landslide victory, taking 86% of the seats in the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, well more than the 67% supermajority needed to ensure that its preferred candidates were elected president and vice president in the Presidential Electoral College.

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