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Aung San Suu Kyi

born 1945, Burmese politician; cofounder (1988) and general secretary (1988--91; 1995-- ) of the National League for Democracy: Nobel peace prize 1991
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Nay Pyi Taw [Myanmar], Dec 11 ( ANI ): President Ram Nath Kovind gifted Myanmar's State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi a replica of the casket containing relics of Gautam Buddha here on Tuesday, marking the "deep historical and civilisational links between India and Myanmar".
The UK-based human rights group on Monday said it was revoking the Ambassador of Conscience Award it gave Aung San Suu Kyi in 2009 during her 15-year house arrest, Al-Jazeera reported.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who leads the Myanmar government and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for campaigning for democracy, has been criticised for failing to speak out against the army crackdown in Rakhine State.
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London: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of the honorific freedom of Oxford, the British city where she studied and raised her children, over her "inaction" in the Rohingya crisis.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Clark International Airport, north of Manila, Philippines Saturday, Nov.
We need to remember what happened when, to international acclaim, Aung San Suu Kyi emerged as the democratic leader of Myanmar in November 2015, after nearly 50 years of military dictatorship.
Twitter user @HafsaSidiqui wrote: "A so-called Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi at the helm.
BRUSSELS, May 2 (KUNA) -- EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and Daw Aung San Suu KYI, First State Counsellor and spokesperson for the Presidency of Myanmar/Burma, openly expressed disagreement Tuesday over the dispatch of an UN fact-finding mission to probe allegations of atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar.
In Myanmar, a new government has been formed under the leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi, but the future of a new democratic setup seems to be unpredictable, as the Armed Forces have successfully managed to hold more than 25 per cent seats in the parliament.
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