Here’s a look at life Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese activists and Nobel Peace Prize the winner.
date of birth: June 19, 1945
birth place: Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (myanmar,
birth name: Aung San Suu Kyi
Father: Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army. Helped negotiate for Burma’s independence from Britain. Assassinated on 19 July 1947.
Mother: Ma Khin Ki, diplomat and later ambassador to India.
marriage: Michael Eris (January 1, 1972–March 27, 1999, his death)
children: Kim (Burmese name: Hattin Lin) and Alexander (Burmese name: Myint San Aung)
Education: St. Hughes College, University of Oxford, BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, 1967
Religion: Buddhist
Referred to as Dr. Aung San Suu Kyi; “Dr” is an honorable title.
Raised in Myanmar and India but moved to England in the 1960s.
1964 – He went to England to study at Oxford University.
1969-1971 – works in United Nations As Assistant Secretary of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions in New York.
1985-1986 – Visiting Scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Japan,
1987 , Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India.
April 1988 – Returns to Myanmar when her mother suffers a severe stroke.
26 August 1988 , In his first public address, outside the Shwedagon Pagoda, he called for a multi-party democratic government.
September 24, 1988 , Co-founded the National League for Democracy (NLD), a party dedicated to non-violence and civil disobedience, and was appointed General Secretary.
20 July 1989 , He has been placed under house arrest on charges of trying to split the army, allegations he denies.
27 May 1990 – His party, the NLD, wins over 80% of the legislative seats, but the State Law and Order Restoration Council does not recognize the election results.
10 July 1991 , Won the Sakharov Human Rights Prize from the European Parliament.
14 October 1991 , wins Nobel Peace Prize “For his non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.”
10 July 1995 , Has been released from house arrest, but his political activity is restricted.
23 September 2000 , Has been placed under house arrest again.
6 December 2000 – US President Bill Clinton Suu Kyi is presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in her absence.
6 May 2002 , Has been released from house arrest.
May 30, 2003 – While traveling in Myanmar, his convoy is attacked by a pro-government mob and captured by the military. Later, he is placed under house arrest.
November 29, 2004 , It is learned that his detention has been extended for another year.
May 2006 , The house arrest has been extended for one more year.
9 June 2006 – US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Sean McCormack told reporters that Suu Kyi had been hospitalized with an undiagnosed illness.
May 25, 2007 , The government has extended his detention for another year.
May 6, 2008 – US President George W Bush Signed legislation awarding Suu Kyi the Congressional Gold Medal.
May 27, 2008 , The government has extended his detention for another year.
14 May 2009 , Suu Kyi has been arrested for violating the conditions of the house arrest. It is in response to an incident earlier in the month when American John Yetav swam uninvited into Suu Kyi’s lakeside home. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison.
18 May 2009 , Suu Kyi’s trial has begun on charges of government sabotage.
11 August 2009 , Suu Kyi was found guilty of breaching the conditions of house arrest and sentenced to 18 months in further house arrest.
7 May 2010 – The NLD refuses to register for elections, thereby disqualifying itself as a political party, and is officially dissolved.
13 November 2010 , Suu Kyi has been released from detention. He has spent 15 out of the last 21 years in house arrest.
November 15, 2010 – Speaking to reporters at the NLD’s headquarters, Suu Kyi vowed to continue working towards restoring democracy and improving human rights in Myanmar.
January 28, 2011 – Suu Kyi’s recorded message, in which she stresses the need for Myanmar to re-establish ties with the rest of the world, is played out at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
18 November 2011 – Nyan Win, spokesman for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, says Suu Kyi will take part in the next election. The NLD announced earlier in the day that it planned to re-register as a political party and participate in all future parliamentary elections.
13 December 2011 – The NLD has been allowed to register for future elections in Myanmar.
18 January 2012 – Suu Kyi filed her nomination for the parliamentary seat.
1 April 2012 , Won a seat in parliament in Myanmar’s first multi-party elections since 1990.
2 May 2012 – Along with 33 other newly elected members of her party, Suu Kyi took the oath of office for parliament, resolving an impasse over the word of the oath that was preventing her from taking her seat in the legislature.
29 May 2012 , For the first time in more than two decades, she creates history by stepping into foreign soil when she arrives in Bangkok, Thailand.
1 June 2012 – Suu Kyi speaks at the World Economic Forum on East Asia.
16 June 2012 , Giving his acceptance speech for the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
21 June 2012 – Addressed both houses of the British Parliament.
September 19, 2012 – Suu Kyi accepts the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington DC. she meets later US President Barack Obama.
November 19, 2012 – Obama at a lakeside villa where he was under house arrest for years. Obama praised Suu Kyi’s courage and determination during her visit to Myanmar, the first by a sitting US president.
10 March 2013 – Won re-election as Leader of the Opposition.
22 October 2013 – Suu Kyi accepts the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in Strasbourg, France, originally awarded to her in 1991.
10 June 2015 – During his first visit to China, met with Chinese President Xi Jinping,
13 November 2015 – The Election Commission of Myanmar announced that Suu Kyi’s NLD party won a historic majority in the country’s first independent parliamentary elections. Suu Kyi is not able to become president due to a constitutional amendment that prevents anyone with foreign relatives from becoming the leader of the nation.
5 April 2016 – Suu Kyi is named state counselor, a role specially created for her, According to Myanmar’s state media, the Post allows him to be in touch with ministries, departments, organisations, associations and individuals and make them accountable to Parliament. While Suu Kyi has been barred from taking over as president, the new position is widely expected to allow her to rule by proxy.
14 September 2016 – Suu Kyi met Obama at the White House for the first time since becoming her country’s de facto leader. Upon Suu Kyi’s arrival, Obama issued a statement saying he would restore Myanmar to a normalized system of precedence, which would help Myanmar with economic growth, exports of goods and job creation.
April 5, 2017 – Talking to BBC, Suu Kyi denies that there has been ethnic cleansing against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority, in between Reports of human rights abuses in Rakhine.
March 7, 2018 – The US Holocaust Museum Announces It Is Canceling the Elie Wiesel Prize Suu Kyi was awarded in 2012 for her failure to intervene in the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
13 November 2018 – Amnesty International announced its decision to revoke the Ambassador of Consciousness Award from Suu Kyi, which she had received from her in 2009. Suu Kyi has received many awards and honors back in the midst of the Rohingya crisis.
December 2019 – Suu Kyi takes a legal team to the International Court of Justice After the nation of The Gambia filed a lawsuit in world court in the Netherlands, alleging that Myanmar had committed an “act of genocide” that was “intended to destroy”. [country’s persecuted] Rohingya as a group through mass murder, rape and destruction of communities.
January 23, 2020 – UN top court orders Myanmar to stop acts of genocide To stop destroying further evidence against the Rohingya.
November 13, 2020 – Suu Kyi NLD win enough parliamentary seats to form the next government, According to the official results of the general election.
February 1, 2021 , Myanmar’s military seizes power in a coup and declares a state of emergency After Suu Kyi and other senior government leaders were detained in an early morning raid.
March 1, 2021 – Suu Kyi appeared in court via video conferencing, where Two more charges have been leveled against him, One prohibits publishing information that “may cause fear or alarm” under Myanmar’s colonial-era penal code, and the other stipulates licenses for the equipment under telecommunications law, his lawyer said, according to Reuters. . This takes the total charges against him to four. In February, he was charged in connection with a national disaster law and count under the country’s Import and Export Act.
April 12, 2021 Suu Kyi’s lawyer told CNN that Suu Kyi is facing a sixth charge under the country’s National Disaster Management Act. Earlier in the month Suu Kyi was Alleged violation of the Official Secrets Act,
April 16, 2021 – Opponents of the military junta announced the creation of an interim national unity government, and named Suu Kyi as the de facto leader.
May 24, 2021 – Suu Kyi attended the court hearing, She appeared in person for the first time since the military seized power on 1 February.
June 14, 2021 , Suu Kyi’s trial begins. The lawsuit addresses three charges, including Suu Kyi, allegedly violated communications law by importing and using multiple walkie-talkie radios, and coronavirus Ban during election campaign last year.
November 16, 2021 – Suu Kyi has been accused of electoral fraud by the Central Election Commission of Myanmar.
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