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	CANOE -- CNEWS - World: A look at the life of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
		Born in Yangon, formerly Rangoon, on June 19, 1945, Suu Kyi was the daughter of a hero of her country's war for independence who was assassinated by political rivals when she was 2.
		Suu Kyi was arrested in 1989 for allegedly inciting unrest and was kept under house arrest for the next six years.
		Suu Kyi's husband, suffering from cancer, was refused permission to visit her before he died in 1999.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/World/2007/09/24/4522553-ap.html (635 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi
		Aung San Suu Kyi was internationally recognized as a vibrant symbol of resistance to authoritarian rule.
		Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Burma on June 19, 1945.
		Suu Kyi stays on in her "sequestered" life in Myanmar in nonviolent protest of the military regime.
	www.edwardsly.com /aung.htm (1248 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi: Fearless, powerful and beautiful - one of the biggest political stars at MondoStars.com
		Aung San Suu Kyi is a peace activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar.
		Aung San Suu Kyi (pronounced Aung Sawn Sue Chee) was born the third child to General Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army, and Ma Khin Kyi, senior nurse of Rangoon General Hospital.
		Suu Kyi is a devout buddhist and proponent of Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence.
	www.mondostars.com /politics/aungsansuukyi.html (0 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi hero file
		Suu Kyi's Rangoon residence is blockaded by the regime and she is prevented from giving her weekend talks.
		Harassment of Suu Kyi by members of the USDA and intimidation of her supporters begins to rise, culminating in a deadly confrontation on the evening of 30 May, as Suu Kyi draws to the end of a month-long tour of the north.
		Suu Kyi is taken into "protective custody" by security forces and returned to Rangoon, where she is held incommunicado, reportedly in a two-room hut at the Insein Prison on the outskirts of the capital.
	www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/suukyi.html (0 words)

	TIMEasia.com: Asian Heroes - Aung San Suu Kyi
		She has earned it—and not just because she is the daughter of Aung San, the independence hero who helped free Burma from the British in 1948, and who founded the army that, ironically, now imprisons his daughter.
		Such was the life-transforming choice Suu Kyi made in 1988, when she returned to Burma to nurse her ailing mother and was swept up in Burma's great pro-democracy uprising.
		Suu Kyi's car was attacked by a well-orchestrated mob armed with stones and iron bars; a senior military officer publicly called for her assassination.
	www.time.com /time/asia/features/heroes/suukyi.html (0 words)

	The Burma Campaign UK: About Burma - Aung San Suu Kyi
		Aung San Suu Kyi had returned to Burma in 1988 to nurse her dying mother and was immediately plunged into the country's nationwide democracy uprising.
		Aung San Suu Kyi is placed her under house arrest in Rangoon under martial law that allows for detention without charge or trial for three years.
		During a tour of northern Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters are attacked by the regime's militia in the town of Depayin.
	www.burmacampaign.org.uk /aboutburma/aung_san_suu_kyi.htm (1257 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Aung San Suu Kyi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aung San Suu Kyi became the general secretary of the National League for Democracy and was a charismatic and effective speaker in favor of democracy throughout the country.
		Although Suu Kyi was not allowed to run for election in the May 27, 1990, election, her party, the NLD, much to the astonishment and chagrin of the military, won 80 percent of the legislative seats.
		Aung San Suu Kyi has written extensively on the life of her father, on a variety of events in Burma, on intellectual life in Burma and India under colonialism, and on literature and nationalism in Burma.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/whm/bio/aung_s.htm (1568 words)

	Burma's struggle, Aung San Suu Kyi's role \| openDemocracy
		Daw Suu (Daw = “auntie” in Burmese, a prefix of respect for a mature lady) is the daughter of independence hero Aung San and the recipient of the Nobel peace prize in 1991.
		Her father, General Aung San, was gunned down with his entire cabinet on 19 July 1947 at the age of 32 by a nephew of his political rival, U Saw.
		Suu Kyi was under her first period of house arrest when her National League for Democracy won the 1990 elections, and remained incarcerated until her release in 1995.
	www.opendemocracy.net /democracy-protest/rangoon_3805.jsp (1398 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi Photos
		Aung San Suu Kyi, a Noble Peace Laureate of 1991, was cited by the Nobel Committee as "one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades." She was educated at Delhi University and Oxford University.
		Aung San Suu Kyi traveled extensively throughout the country, giving hundreds of speeches often to crowds of thousands, in an attempt to unite the people and reinstill their courage in achieving their long-sought goal of freedom.
		Aung San Suu Kyi wrote numerous essays in her Rangoon home during Burma's upheaval in the final months of 1988.
	www.ibiblio.org /freeburma/photos/phyo/suukyi.html (342 words)

	USCB : Aung San Suu Kyi : Biography
		Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (pronounced Daw Aung Sawn Sue Chee) is one of the world's most renown freedom fighters and advocates of nonviolence, having served as the figurehead for Burma's struggle for democracy since 1988.
		Born on June 19th, 1945 to Burma's independence hero, Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi was educated in Burma, India, and the United Kingdom.
		As Suu Kyi began to campaign for the NLD, she and many others were detained by the regime.
	www.uscampaignforburma.org /assk/biography.html (0 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi - Biography
		Marriage of Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army, and Ma Khin Kyi (becoming Daw Khin Kyi), senior nurse of Rangoon General Hospital, where he had recovered from the rigours of the march into Burma.
		Suu Kyi vows that as her father and mother had served the people of Burma, so too would she, even unto death.
		Suu Kyi discourages tourists from visiting Burma and businessmen from investing in the country until it is free.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html (0 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi - Biography
		Suu Kyi vows that as her father and mother had served the people of Burma, so too would she, even unto death.
		Suu Kyi announces that she will use $1.3 million prize money to establish health and education trust for Burmese people.
		Suu Kyi discourages tourists from visiting Burma and businessmen from investing in the country until it is free.
	www.nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html (1455 words)

	The My Hero Project - Aung San Suu Kyi
		Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested again on May 30, 2003, by the ruling military junta of Myanmar during a violent clash between members of the National League for Democracy and junta supporters.
		Aung San is a leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), whose election in 1990 would have made her the first democratic political leader in recent history.
		Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was born in 1945 in Rangoon, Burma.
	myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=suukyi (1537 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A devout Buddhist, Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and in 1991 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a repressive military dictatorship.
		Suu Kyi continued her education at St Hugh's College, Oxford, obtaining a B.A. degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1967.
		On 9 June 2006, Suu Kyi was hospitalised with severe diarrhea and weakness, as reported by a UN representative for National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi (1712 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi - Great Men and Women of the World
		Aung San Suu Kyi was educated in the city of Rangoon until she was 15 years old.
		Suu Kyi became leader of the NLD and her outspoken criticism of the military leaders of Myanmar and the memory of her father made her a symbol of popular desire for political freedom and a focus of opposition to the dictatorship.
		Aung San Suu Kyi continued to fight for dialogue with the military rulers and a peaceful transition to a democratic government.
	homepage.oanet.com /jaywhy/assk.htm (816 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi talks
		Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is demure and soft spoken in conversation, but, depending on whether you believe the military rulers of Burma or the Nobel committee, she is either a puppet of imperialism or one of the most courageous women alive.
		Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, seems no closer to power now than in any time since 1989, when she and her National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in Burma’s first free election, results that the junta refused to honor.
		Suu Kyi, who is married to a British university professor, was attacked as a "western party girl" and "foreign stooge" in the official state media.
	www.gluckman.com /AungSanSuuKyi.html (2107 words)

	Nobel Peace Lectures: Aung San Suu Kyi - An Essay by Irwin Abrams
		Both Suu Kyi and Michael thought the time for Burma would come later, after the children were grown and after she had finished her doctoral thesis on Burmese literature at the University of London.
		Suu Kyi had not been allowed to run in the election herself, but the results clearly showed that the whole country had voted for her.
		Suu Kyi's campaign for democracy had already been reported in the world press, and her detention and the annulled election drew increasing international attention to the situation in Burma, (now named Myanmar).
	www.irwinabrams.com /books/excerpts/annual91.html (2870 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi - Summary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is modest and soft spoken, but, depending on whether you believe the military rulers of Burma or the Nobel committee, she is either a puppet of imperialism or one of the most courageous women alive.
		Aung San Suu Kyi ('Suu' to her friends and family) quickly emerged as the most effective and articulate leader of the movement, and the party she founded went on to win a colossal electoral victory in May 1990, even though she had been put under house arrest in July 1989.
		Suu Kyi is well prepared intellectually, as can be verified reading an excerpt of her paper "Empowerment for Peace and Development", in which she rebukes the argument of the convenience of authoritarianism "for some particular countries."
	www.geocities.com /gury4u/suukyi1.htm (2798 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi & Aung San Suu Kyi Biography Links
		Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon, Burma, on June 19, 1945.
		She is the daughter of Daw Khin Kyi, Burma's only woman ambassador (to India and Nepal), and late national leader General Aung San, the architect of Burma's independence, who was assassinated in Rangoon on July 19, 1947, along with six members of his pre-independence cabinet.
		Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was educated in Rangoon until the age of 15 and continued her studies at Delhi University when she accompanied her Ambassador mother to New Delhi.
	www.thepeacemission.com /aung-san-suu-kyi.htm (666 words)

	The Observer \| 7 Days \| Aung San Suu Kyi: The Lady's not for turning
		Aung San Suu Kyi, the inspirational, graceful and, it seems, endlessly resilient leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement, has had her house arrest extended by the ruling military junta, undermining growing hopes that she would finally be freed.
		Sixteen years ago to the day, Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party won a crushing 82 per cent of the vote in a general election, a majority that could not have sent a clearer message to the ruling military junta about what the nation thought of its 28-year dictatorship.
		Suu Kyi spent her first 15 years in Rangoon, before moving to Delhi when her mother, Khin Kyi, was appointed ambassador to India and Nepal.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /7days/story/0,,1784577,00.html (1803 words)

	Aung San Suu Kyi
		Aung San Suu Kyi was born on June 19, 1945 in the city of Rangoon, Burma.
		Aung had made her way back to her homeland in 1988, to take care of her sick mother.
		Aung San Sunn Kyi was released from house arrest on July 10, 1995.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/kyi.html (1282 words)

	RFA: Burmese Junta Extends Opposition Leader's Detention
		Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace, was most recently detained May 30, 2003 after her motorcade was ambushed by government-backed mobs in Depayin during a political tour of Burma's northern provinces.
		Aung San Suu Kyi was born on June 19, 1945 in Rangoon.
		Daughter of prominent general and independence hero Aung San, who was slain in 1947, she has become the icon of the Burmese pro-democracy movement.
	www.rfa.org /english/news/politics/2006/05/27/burma_assk (1029 words)

	Amnesty International Women's Action Council Stop Violence Against Women Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aung San Suu Kyi’s father, a general, is one of Myanmar’s foremost national heroes, having fought Japanese invaders during World War II and later helped to secure Burma’s independence from England.
		Aung San Suu Kyi becomes the national symbol of the nation’s beleaguered democracy movement.
		Aung San Suu Kyi’s husband Michael Aris dies of cancer in London at the age of 53.
	women.amnestyusa.org /defenders/aungsansuukyi.asp (738 words)

	kutv.com - Myanmar's Suu Kyi's Condition Improves (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Suu Kyi has been in detention since May 2003 after her motorcade was attacked in northern Myanmar by a mob supporting the ruling junta.
		Suu Kyi is one of the world's most prominent political prisoners, and her release has been sought by many world leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and President Bush.
		Thaung Htun said Suu Kyi, who has spent much of the last 16 years under house arrest, was delayed going to the hospital because her physician had trouble getting permission to see her.
	kutv.com /national/topstories_story_161003147.html (517 words)

	Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aung San Suu Kyi was born in 1945 in Yangon, Myanmar, what was formerly recognized as Rangoon.
		On July 10, 1995, Aung was released from house arrest, yet she refused to leave the country because if she left, she could never return again.
		In 1996, Aung was once more put under virtual house arrest, although she still received her doctor of laws degree in Washington D.C. at American University in 1997 and wrote a book titled Freedom from Fear and Other Writings about her father and Myanmar.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/aung.html (282 words)

	Brain Fertilizer: Aung San Suu Kyi Archives
		Aung San Suu Kyi is not one of them.
		Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is still under house arrest at her lakeside home in Rangoon and the country’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) recently extended her detention to another year.
		Suu Kyi vows that as her father and mother had served the people of Burma, so too would she, even unto death.
	brain.mu.nu /archives/cat_aung_san_suu_kyi.php (524 words)

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