The State Counsellor of Myanmar, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi being received by the Minister of State for Commerce & Industry (Independent Charge), Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, on her arrival, in New Delhi on October 17, 2016.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi : Things You Need To Know
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has served as the general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) since the party's founding in 1988, and was registered as its chairperson while it was a legal party from 2011 to 2023. She played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial democracy in the 2010s.
Suu Kyi: Early Life
Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma, on June 19, 1945. Her father, Aung San, was a Burmese independence hero who was assassinated when she was two years old. She studied philosophy, politics, and economics at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, and then worked at the United Nations in New York City. In 1988, she returned to Burma to care for her ailing mother and became involved in the pro-democracy movement.
Nobel Peace Prize
In 1989, Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest by the military junta, which had ruled Burma since 1962. She spent the next 15 years under house arrest, with only brief periods of freedom. During this time, she became a symbol of the Burmese people's struggle for democracy and human rights. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights."
Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in 2010 and led the NLD to victory in Myanmar's first openly contested election in 25 years in 2015. She became State Counsellor of Myanmar in 2016, effectively serving as the country's prime minister. However, she was deposed by a military coup in 2021 and has been under detention ever since.
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