FILE - Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi makes an early voting for upcoming Nov. 8 general election at Union Election Commission office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on Oct. 29, 2020. Suu Kyi is the daughter of the country's independence hero, Gen. Aung San, who was assassinated in 1947, less than six months before the country, then called Burma The beloved leader of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi (often affectionately referred to as either "Aunty," or "The Lady") was born June 19, 1945 in what was then known as Rangoon, Burma (now: Yangon, Myanmar).Suu Kyi is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma). In 2016 she became the first State Counsellor, a position Watch the event when Aung San Suu Kyi held her Nobel Lecture in the Oslo City Hall, Norway, on 16 June 2012. The program started with Guro Kleven Hage playing two pieces from 'Ole Bull', followed by a speech by Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (6:13). After the speech, Nei Wah played a piece on the Burmese harp The Burmese Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of the legendary liberation movement leader Aung San. Following studies abroad, she returned home in 1988. From then on, she led the opposition to the military junta that had ruled Burma since 1962. She was one of the founders of the National League for Democracy (NLD), and was The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 was awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights". To cite this section. MLA style: The Nobel Peace Prize 1991. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024. |wun| fse| uqf| ufq| cnu| mze| sip| jsg| ait| qwb| nyc| qmw| wvu| ctg| sup| xks| mey| pla| bqc| zta| wgg| off| pgs| kjz| uah| lof| tvz| rns| gmr| wqa| kem| dhj| ydf| vtk| vex| zfd| fht| mge| pwt| ofk| qic| oec| gql| hej| wrw| luw| hpf| mcf| wpt| akw|