Aung San Suu Kyi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. General-Secretary of the NLD.
Won a landslide victory (87% of votes) in 1990 elections in Burma and should have been Burma’s Prime Minister. Result dishonoured by the military.
Has spent 14 of the last 20 years under house arrest. Prevented from seeing her late husband when he was terminally ill. Has not seen her two sons for well over a decade.
Charismatic with the ability to make people feel they are being listened to intently. Features in Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s book “Courage.” She has asked: “Please use your liberty to promote our’s.”
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