Aung San Suu Kyi AC (Burmese 
;
MLCTS=aung hcan: cu. krany; ) (born 19 June 1945) is a
Burmese
opposition
politician and
General Secretary of the
National League for
Democracy.
In the
1990 general
election, Suu Kyi was elected
Prime Minister, as leader of the
winning National League for Democracy party, which won 59% of the
vote and 394 of 492 seats. Her subsequent detention by the
military junta prevented her from assuming
office. She has remained under
house
arrest in Myanmar for almost 14 out of the past 20 years.
Suu Kyi was the recipient of 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.
She is frequently called
Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi; Daw is not part of her name, but is an honorific
similar to
madam for older, revered women,
literally meaning "aunt". Her name is derived from three relatives;
"Aung San" from her father, "Kyi" from her mother and "Suu" from
her grandmother. Strictly speaking, she
has
no surname, but it is acceptable to refer to her as "Ms. Suu
Kyi" or "Dr. Suu Kyi", since those syllables serve to distinguish
her from her father,
General Aung San, who
is considered to be the
father of
modern-day Burma.
Personal life
Aung San
Suu Kyi was born on 19 June 1945 in Rangoon
. Her
father,
Aung San, founded the
modern Burmese army and negotiated Burma's
independence from the
United Kingdom in 1947; he was
assassinated by his rivals in the same
year.
She
grew up with her mother, Khin Kyi, and two brothers, Aung San Lin
and Aung San Oo in Rangoon
. Her
favourite brother Aung San Lin died at age eight, when he drowned
in an ornamental lake in the grounds of the house.
Her elder brother
emigrated to San Diego
, California
, becoming a United
States citizen. After Lin's death, the family moved to a
house by Inya
Lake
where she met people of very different backgrounds,
political views and religions. Suu Kyi was educated in
English Catholic schools for much of her childhood
in Burma where she was noted as having a talent for learning
languages. She is a
Theravada Buddhist.
Suu Kyi's mother, Daw Khin Kyi, gained prominence as a political
figure in the newly formed Burmese government.
She was appointed
Burmese ambassador to India
and Nepal
in 1960, and
Aung San Suu Kyi followed her there, graduating from Lady Shri Ram College with a
degree in politics in New
Delhi
in 1964. Suu Kyi continued her education at St Hugh's
College, Oxford
, obtaining a B.A.
degree in Philosophy, Politics, and
Economics in 1969. After graduating, she lived in New York City
with a family friend and worked at the United Nations for three years, primarily on
budget matters, writing daily to her future husband Michael.
In 1972,
Aung San Suu Kyi married Dr. Michael
Aris, a scholar of Tibetan culture, living
abroad in Bhutan
.
The
following year she gave birth to their first son, Alexander Aris, in London
; their
second son, Kim, was born in 1977. Following this, she
earned a Ph.D. at the School of
Oriental and African Studies
, University of
London in 1985. She was elected an Honorary Fellow in
1990. For two years she was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of
Advanced Studies (IIAS)in Shimla, India. She also worked for the
government of
the Union of Burma.
In 1988
Suu Kyi returned to Burma
at first to
tend for her ailing mother but later to lead the pro-democracy movement. Michael’s visit in
Christmas 1995 turned out to be the last time that he and Suu Kyi
met, as Suu Kyi remained in Burma and the Burmese
dictatorship denied him any further entry
visas. Michael was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 which was
later found to be terminal.
Despite appeals from prominent figures and
organizations, including the United States
, UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan and Pope John Paul II,
the Burmese government would not grant Michael a visa, saying that they did not have the
facilities to care for him, and instead urged Aung San Suu Kyi to
leave the country to visit him. She was at that time
temporarily free from
house arrest but
was unwilling to depart, fearing that she would be refused re-entry
if she left, as she did not trust the junta's assurance that she
could return.
Aris died on his 53rd birthday on 27 March 1999. Since 1989, when
his wife was first placed under house arrest, he had seen her only
five times, the last of which was for Christmas in 1995. She also
remains separated from her children, who live in the United
Kingdom.
On 2 May 2008, after
Cyclone Nargis
hit Burma, Suu Kyi lost her roof and was living in virtual darkness
after losing electricity in her dilapidated lakeside residence. She
used candles at night as she was not provided any generator set.
Plans to renovate and repair the house were announced in August
2009.
Political beginnings
Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Burma in 1988 to take care of her
ailing mother. By coincidence, in the same year, the long-time
leader of the
Socialist
ruling party, General
Ne Win, stepped
down, leading to
mass demonstrations for
democracy on 8 August 1988 (8-8-88, a day seen as auspicious),
which were violently suppressed.
On 26 August 1988, she addressed half a
million people at a mass rally in front of the Shwedagon
Pagoda
in the capital, calling for a democratic
government. However in September, a
new
military junta took power. Later the same month, the
National League for Democracy
(NLD) was formed, with Suu Kyi as general secretary.
Influenced by both
Mahatma Gandhi's
philosophy of
non-violence and by more
specifically Buddhist concepts, Aung San Suu Kyi entered politics
to work for
democratization, helped
found the
National League
for Democracy on 27 September 1988, and was put under
house arrest on 20 July 1989. She was offered
freedom if she left the country, but she refused.
One of her most famous speeches is the "Freedom From Fear" speech,
which begins, "It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of
losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of
power corrupts those who are subject to it."
Political career
1990 general election
In 1990, the military junta called a
general election, which the
National League for Democracy won by an overwhelming 82% of the
votes. Being the NLD's candidate, Aung San Suu Kyi under normal
circumstances would have assumed the office of
Prime Minister. Instead, the results were
nullified, and the military refused to hand over power. This
resulted in an international outcry. Aung San Suu Kyi was placed
under house arrest at her home on University Avenue ( ) in Rangoon.
During her arrest, she was awarded the
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in
1990, and the
Nobel Peace Prize
the year after. Her sons
Alexander
and Kim accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Aung San Suu
Kyi used the Nobel Peace Prize's 1.3 million
USD
prize money to establish a
health and
education trust for the Burmese
people.
House arrest
Aung San Suu Kyi has been placed under
house arrest on numerous occasions since she
began her political career, totaling 14 of the past 20 years.
During these periods, she has been prevented from meeting her party
supporters; international visitors, likewise, have been prevented
from meeting her. She lives with her two maids and receives visits
from her doctor. In an interview, Suu Kyi said that while under
house arrest she spent her time reading philosophy, politics and
biographies that her husband had sent her. She would also occupy
her time by playing the
piano and was
occasionally allowed visits from foreign diplomats as well as her
personal doctor.
The media have also been prevented from visiting. In
1998,
journalist Maurizio Giuliano, after
photographing her, was stopped by customs
officials, and all his
films,
tape and some notes were confiscated. Suu Kyi
met the leader of Burma, General
Than
Shwe, accompanied by General
Khin
Nyunt on 20 September 1994, while under house arrest. It was
the first meeting since she had been placed in
detention.
When the military
government has released Suu Kyi from house arrest it has made it
clear that, if she left the country to visit her family in the
United
Kingdom
, it would not allow her return. On several
occasions, Suu Kyi has been in poor health for severe
weakness.
Suu Kyi continues to be imprisoned under the 1975 State Protection
Act (Article 10 b), which grants the government the power to
imprison persons for up to five years without a trial, and the Law
to Safeguard the State Against the Dangers of Those Desiring to
Cause Subversive Acts (Article 10 a), as Suu Kyi is "likely to
undermine the community peace and stability" of the country. She
has appealed against her detention. Many nations and figures have
continued to call for her release and that of 2,100 other political
prisoners in the country.
UN involvement
The UN has attempted to facilitate dialogue between the
junta and Suu Kyi. On 6 May 2002, following
secret confidence-building negotiations led by the
United Nations, the government released her;
a government spokesman said that she was free to move "because we
are confident that we can trust each other". Aung San Suu Kyi
proclaimed "a new dawn for the country". However on 30 May 2003, a
government-sponsored mob attacked her caravan in the northern
village of
Depayin, murdering and
wounding many of her supporters. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene
with the help of her driver, Ko Kyaw Soe Lin, but was arrested upon
reaching Ye-U.
The government imprisoned her at Insein Prison
in Rangoon. After she underwent a
hysterectomy in September 2003, the government
again placed her under house arrest in Rangoon.
The results from the UN facilitation have been mixed;
Razali Ismail, UN special envoy to Burma, met
with Aung San Suu Kyi. Ismail resigned from his post the following
year, partly because he was denied re-entry to Burma on several
occasions. Several years later in 2006,
Ibrahim Gambari,
UN Undersecretary-General
(USG) of
Department of
Political Affairs, met with Aung San Suu Kyi, the first visit
by a foreign official since 2004. He also met with Suu Kyi later
the same year.
On 2 October 2007 Gambari returned to talk
to her again after seeing Than Shwe and
other members of the senior leadership in Naypyitaw
. State
television broadcast Suu Kyi with Gambari, stating that they
had met twice. This was Suu Kyi's first appearance in state media
in the four years since her current detention began.
The United Nations Working Group for Arbitrary Detention rendered
an Opinion (No. 9 of 2004) that her deprivation of liberty was
arbitrary, as being in contravention of Article 9 of the
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights 1948, and requested that the authorities in Burma
set her free, but the authorities have so far ignored this
request.
Such claims were rejected by Major-General Khin Yi, the national
police chief of Burma. On 18 January 2007, the
state-run paper
The New Light of Myanmar
accused Suu Kyi of
tax evasion for
spending her Nobel Prize money outside of the country.
The accusation
followed the defeat of a US-sponsored United Nations Security
Council resolution condemning Burma as a threat to
international security; the resolution was defeated because of
strong opposition from China
, which has
strong ties with the military junta (China later voted against the
resolution, along with Russia
and South Africa).
In November 2007 it was reported that Suu Kyi would meet her
political allies
National
League for Democracy along with a government minister. The
ruling junta made the official announcement on state TV and radio
just hours after the
United Nation's
special envoy
Ibrahim Gambari ended
his second visit to Burma. The NLD confirmed that it had received
the invitation to hold talks with Ms. Suu Kyi. However, the process
delivered few concrete results.
On 3 July 2009, UN Secretary General
Ban
Ki-moon, arrived in Myanmar on a journey seeking the release of
Aung San Suu Kyi and to press the junta for democratic reform.
However, on departing from Burma, Ban Ki-moon said he was
"disappointed" with the visit after junta leader
Than Shwe refused permission for him to visit Suu
Kyi, citing her ongoing trial. Ban said he was "deeply disappointed
that they have missed a very important opportunity."
Periods under detention
- 20
July 1989: Placed under house arrest in Rangoon
under
martial law that allows for detention
without charge or trial for three
years.
- 10 July 1995: Released from house arrest.
- 23 September 2000: Placed under house arrest.
- 6 May 2002: Released after 19 months.
- 30 May 2003: Arrested following the Depayin massacre she was
held in secret detention for over 3 months before being returned to
house arrest.
- 25 May 2007: House arrest extended by one year flouting a
direct appeal from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to General Than
Shwe.
- 24 October 2007: Reached 12 years under house arrest, solidarity protests held at 12
cities around the world.
- 27 May 2008: House arrest extended for another year, illegal
under both international law and
Burma's own law.
- 11 August 2009: House arrest extended for further 18 months
because of "violation" arising from the May 2009 trespass
incident.
2007 anti-government protests
Protests led by
Buddhist monks began on 19
August 2007 following steep fuel price increases, and continued
each day, despite the threat of a crackdown by the military.
On
Saturday, 22 September 2007, although still under house arrest, Suu Kyi made a brief public
appearance at the gate of her residence in Rangoon
to accept
the blessings of Buddhist monks who were marching in support of
human rights. It was reported that she had been moved the
following day to Insein
Prison
(where she had been detained in 2003), but meetings
with UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari near her Rangoon home on 30
September and 2 October established that she remained under house
arrest.
2009 trespass incident
On 3 May
2009, an American
man, identified as John William Yettaw, swam across
Inya
Lake
to her house uninvited and was arrested when he
made his return trip three days later. He had attempted to
make a similar trip two years earlier, but for unknown reasons was
turned away. It is unknown what his motives were. On 13 May, Suu
Kyi was arrested for violating the terms of her house arrest
because the swimmer, who pleaded
exhaustion, was allowed to stay in her house for
two days before he attempted the swim back.
Suu Kyi was later
taken to Insein
Prison
, where she could face up to five years confinement for the intrusion.
The trial of Suu Kyi and her two maids began on 18 May and a small
number of protesters gathered outside. Diplomats and journalists
are barred from attending the trial; however, on one occasion,
several diplomats from Russia, Thailand and Singapore and
journalists were allowed to meet Suu Kyi. The prosecution had
originally planned to call 22 witnesses. It also accused John
Yettaw of embarrassing the country. During the ongoing defence
case, Suu Kyi said she was innocent. The defence was only allowed
to call one witness (out of four), while the prosecution has been
permitted to call 14 witnesses. The court rejected two character
witnesses, NLD members
Tin Oo and
Win Tin and only permitted the defense to call a
legal expert. According to one unconfirmed report, the junta is
planning to, once again, place her in detention, this time in a
military base outside the city. In a separate trial, Yettaw said he
swam to Suu Kyi's house to warn her that her life was "in danger".
The national police chief later confirmed that Yettaw was the "main
culprit" in the case filed against Suu Kyi. According to aides, Suu
Kyi spent her 64th birthday in jail sharing
biryani rice and chocolate cake with her
guards.
Her
arrest and subsequent trial received worldwide condemnation by the
UN Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Security
Council, Western governments, South
Africa, Japan
and the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations, of
which Burma is a member. The Burmese government strongly condemned
the statement, as it created an "unsound tradition" and criticised
Thailand
for meddling in its internal affairs. The
Burmese Foreign Minister
Nyan Win was
quoted in the state-run newspaper
New Light of Myanmar as saying
that the incident "was trumped up to intensify international
pressure on Burma by internal and external anti-government elements
who do not wish to see the positive changes in those countries'
policies toward Burma". Ban responded to an international campaign
by flying to Burma to negotiate, but Than Shwe rejected all of his
requests.
On 11 August 2009 the trial concluded with Suu Kyi being sentenced
to imprisonment for three years with hard labour. This sentence was
commuted by the military rulers to further house arrest of eighteen
months. On 14 August,
U.S. Senator Jim Webb
visited Burma, visiting with junta leader Gen.
Than Shwe and later with Suu Kyi. During the
visit, Webb negotiated Yettaw's release and deportation from Burma.
Following the verdict of the trial, lawyers of Suu Kyi said, they
would appeal against the 18-months sentence. On 18 August, United
States President
Barack Obama asked the
country's military leadership to set free all political prisoners,
including Aung San Suu Kyi. In her appeal, Aung San Suu Kyi had
argued, that the conviction was unwarranted. However, her appeal
against the August sentence was rejected by a Burmese court on 2
October, 2009, although the court accepted the argument that the
1974 constitution, under which she had been charged, was null and
void, but said the provisions of the 1975 security law, under which
she has been kept under house arrest, remained in force. The
verdict effectively means, she will be unable to participate in
elections scheduled to take place in 2010 - the first in Burma in
two decades. Her lawyer stated that her legal team would pursue a
new appeal within 60 days.
2009 international pressure for release and Burmese general
election, 2010
Aung San Suu Kyi may be released "so she can organise her party,"
for the upcoming
Burmese
general election. Though, it is unclear if she will be allowed
to run as a candidate.
Burma's relaxing stance, such as releasing political prisoners was
influenced in the wake of successful recent diplomatic visits by
the US and other Democratic governments, urging of encouraging the
Burmese towards democratic reform. U.S. President
Barack Obama intends to personally advocate on
the behalf of all political prisoners especially Aung San Suu Kyi,
during the US-Asean Summit of 2009.
Democratic governments hope that successful general elections would
be a optimistic indicator of the Burmese governments sincerity
towards eventual democracy. . The
Hatoyama government which spent 2.82 Billion
yen in 2008, has promised more Japanese foreign aid to encourage
Burma release Aung San Suu Kyi in time for the elections; and to
continue striding towards democracy and the rule of law..
International support

There is widespread international
support for Aung San Suu Kyi.

All over the world, many are in
solidarity with Aung San Suu Kyi and the Democracy Movement.
Aung San Suu Kyi has received vocal support from Western nations in
Europe, Australia and North and South America, as well as India,
Israel, Japan and South Korea. In December 2007, the US House of
Representatives voted unanimously 400–0 to award Aung San Suu Kyi
the
Congressional Gold
Medal; the Senate concurred on 25 April 2008. On 6 May 2008,
President Bush signed legislation awarding Suu Kyi the
Congressional Gold Medal. She is the first recipient in American
history to receive the prize while imprisoned. Other non-American
recipients of the medal include Sir
Winston Churchill,
Pope John Paul II,
Nelson Mandela, the
Dalai Lama and
Mother
Theresa. More recently, there has been growing criticism of her
detention by Burma's neighbours in the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations, particularly from Indonesia, Thailand, the
Philippines and Singapore. At one point Malaysia warned Burma faced
expulsion from ASEAN as a result of the detention of Suu Kyi. Other
nations including South Africa, Bangladesh and the Maldives have
also called for her release. The United Nations has urged the
country to move towards inclusive national reconciliation, the
restoration of democracy, and full respect for human rights. In
December 2008, the
United Nations General
Assembly passed a resolution condemning the
human rights situation in Burma and
calling for Suu Kyi's release – 80 countries voting for the
resolution, 25 against and 45 abstentions. Other nations, such as
China and Russia are less critical of the regime and prefer to
cooperate only on economic matters. Indonesia has urged China to
push Burma for reforms.
However, Samak
Sundaravej, former Prime
Minister of Thailand
, criticised the amount of support for Suu Kyi,
saying that "Europe uses Aung San Suu Kyi as a tool. If it's
not related to Aung San Suu Kyi, you can have deeper discussions
with Myanmar."
U2 supported her on their 2009
U2 360° Tour by encouraging fans
to wear masks with her likeness on them during the band's
performance of the song "
Walk On",
which was originally written for her. In 2005, Irish singer
songwriter
Damian Rice released the
single
Unplayed Piano in support of
Aung San Suu Kyi.
Vietnam
, however, does not support calls by other ASEAN
member states for Myanmar to free Aung San Suu Kyi, state media
reported Friday, 14 August. 2009. The state-run
Viet Nam News said Vietnam had no criticism of
Myanmar's decision 11 August, 2009 to place Suu Kyi under house
arrest for the next 18 months, effectively barring her from
elections scheduled for 2010. "It is our view that the Aung San Suu
Kyi trial is an internal affair of Myanmar," Vietnamese government
spokesman
Le Dung stated on the website of
the
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. In contrast with other ASEAN member states, Dung said
Vietnam has always supported Myanmar and hopes it will continue to
implement the "roadmap to democracy" outlined by its
government.
Nobel Peace Prize
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. The decision of
the Nobel Committee mentions:
Nobel Peace prize winners
(Archbishop
Desmond Tutu,
The Dalai Lama,
Shirin Ebadi,
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel,
Mairead Corrigan,
Rigoberta Menchú, Prof.
Elie Wiesel, U.S. President
Barack Obama,
Betty Williams,
Jody Williams and former
U.S. President Jimmy Carter) have called for the rulers of
Burma to release Suu Kyi "create the necessary conditions for a
genuine dialogue with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all concerned
parties and ethnic groups in order to achieve an inclusive national
reconciliation with the direct support of the United Nations." Some
of the money she received as part of the award helps fund
London-based charity Prospect Burma, who provide higher education
grants to Burmese students.
Organizations
- Freedom Now, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization,
was retained in 2006 by a member of her family to help secure Aung
San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest. The organization
successfully secured a positive judgment from the UN Working Group
on Arbitrary Detention and has been conducting political and public
relations advocacy on her behalf.
- Aung San Suu Kyi has been an honorary board member of International
IDEA and ARTICLE 19 since her
detention, and has received support from these organisations.
- The
Vrije
Universiteit Brussel
and the Université
Catholique de Louvain
, both located in Belgium, have granted her the
title of Doctor Honoris
Causa.
- In 2002, the Freedom Forum
recognized Suu Kyi's efforts to promote democracy peacefully with
the Al Neuharth Free Spirit of the Year Award, in which she was
presented over satellite because she was under house arrest. She
was awarded one million dollars.
- In June of each year, the US
Campaign for Burma organizes hundreds of "Arrest Yourself"
house parties around the world in support of Aung San Suu Kyi. At
these parties, the organizers keep themselves under house arrest
for 24 hours, invite their friends, and learn more about Burma and
Aung San Suu Kyi.
- The Freedom Campaign, a joint
effort between the Human Rights Action Center and US Campaign for Burma, looks to raise
worldwide attention to the struggles of Aung San Suu Kyi and the
people of Burma.
- The Burma Campaign UK is a UK
based NGO (Non Governmental Organisation) that aims to raise
awareness of Burma's struggles and follow the guidelines
established by the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi.
- St.
Hugh's College, Oxford
, where she
studied, had a Burmese theme for their annual ball in support of
her in 2006.
- Aung San Suu Kyi is the official patron of The Rafto Human
Rights House in Bergen, Norway. She received the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize in
1990.
- She
was made an honorary free person of the City of Dublin
, Ireland
in November 1999, although a space has been left on
the roll of signatures to symbolize her continued
detention.
- In November 2005 the human rights group Equality Now proposed Aung Sun Suu Kyi as a
potential candidate, among other qualifying women, for the position
of U.N. Secretary General. In the proposed
list of qualified women Suu Kyi is recognised by Equality Now as
the Prime Minister-Elect of Burma.
- The
United Nations's special envoy to
Myanmar
, Ibrahim Gambari,
met Aung San Suu Kyi on 10 March 2008 before wrapping up his trip
to the military-ruled country.
The Bommersvik Declarations
In
Bommersvik, Sweden
, in 1995 and
2002, two conventions of the Elected
Representatives of the Union of Burma
took place and the following two landmark
declarations were issued: Burma Lawyers' Council characterizes Declarations
as Landmark.
Bommersvik Declaration I
In 1995, during the first convention that lasted from 16–23 July,
the
Representatives
issued the Bommersvik
Declaration I:
Bommersvik Declaration II
In 2002, during the second convention that lasted from 25 February
to 1 March, the Representatives issued the Bommersvik Declaration
II:
Books
Authored
- Der Weg zur Freiheit (1999) with U Kyi Maung, U Tin
Oo, ISBN 978-3404614356
- Letters from Burma (1998) with Fergal Keane ISBN
978-0140264036
- The Voice of Hope (1998) with Alan Clements, ISBN 978-1888363838, fully
updated and re-issued in October 2008 by Rider Books, ISBN
978-1846041433
- Letter to Daniel: Despatches from the Heart (1996) by
Fergal Keane, foreword by Aung San Suu Kyi, edited by Tony Grant
ISBN 978-0140262896
- Freedom from Fear and other Writings (1995) with
Václav Havel, Desmond M. Tutu,
and Michael Aris, ISBN
978-0140253177
- Burma's Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for
Democratic Freedom and Dignity (1994) with Alan Clements,
Leslie Kean, the Dalai Lama, Sein Win,
ISBN 978-0893815806
- Aung San of Burma: A Biographical Portrait by His
Daughter (1991) ISBN 978-1870838801, 2nd edition 1995
- Aung San (Leaders of Asia Series) (1990) ISBN
978-9990288834
- Burma and India: Some aspects of intellectual life under
colonialism (1990) ISBN 978-8170231349
- Bhutan (Let's Visit Series) (1986) ISBN
978-0222010995
- Nepal (Let's Visit Series) (1985) ISBN
978-0222009814
- Burma (Let's Visit Series) (1985) ISBN
978-0222009791
Edited
Awards
Popular media
See also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Miller, J. E. (2001). Who's who in contemporary women's
writing. Routledge.
- Reid, R., Grosberg, M. (2005). Myanmar (Burma). Lonely
Planet. ISBN 978-1740596954.
- Stewart, Whitney (1997). Aung San Suu Kyi: fearless voice
of Burma. Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN
978-0822549314.
Further reading
- Aung San Suu Kyi (Modern Peacemakers) (2007) by Judy
L. Hasday, ISBN 978-0791094358
- The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's
Prisoner (2002) by Barbara Victor, ISBN 978-0571211777, or
1998 hardcover: ISBN 978-0571199440
- Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi (2007) by
Justin Wintle, ISBN 978-0091796815
- Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators (2006)
by David Wallechinsky, ISBN 978-0060590048
- Aung San Suu Kyi (Trailblazers of the Modern World)
(2004) by William Thomas, ISBN 978-0836852639
- No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs (2002) by Naomi
Klein ISBN 978-0312421434
- Mental culture in Burmese crisis politics: Aung San Suu
Kyi and the National League for Democracy (ILCAA Study of
Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Monograph Series)
(1999) by Gustaaf Houtman, ISBN 978-4872977486
- Hidden Agendas (1998) by John Pilger, ISBN
978-0099741510
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Standing Up for Democracy in Burma (Women
Changing the World) (1998) by Bettina Ling ISBN
978-1558611979
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Fearless Voice of Burma (Newsmakers
Biographies Series) (1997) by Whitney Stewart, ISBN
978-0822549314
- Prisoner for Peace: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle
for Democracy (Champions of Freedom Series) (1994) by John
Parenteau, ISBN 978-1883846053
- Des femmes prix Nobel de Marie Curie à Aung San Suu Kyi,
1903-1991 (1992) by Charlotte Kerner, Nicole Casanova, Gidske
Anderson, ISBN 978-2721004277
- Aung San Suu Kyi, towards a new freedom (1998) by Chin
Geok Ang ISBN 978-9814024303
- Aung San Suu Kyi's struggle: Its principles and
strategy (1997) by Mikio Oishi ISBN 978-9839861068
- Finding George Orwell in Burma (2004) by Emma Larkin
ISBN 0143037110
- Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person
Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember (2005) by John
McCain, Mark Salter. Random House ISBN 978-1400064120
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