Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945 in Rangoon, Burma) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991). The daughter of Burma's independence hero General Aung San, she returned to Burma in 1988 during the pro-democracy uprising and became its symbol. She was placed under house arrest by the military junta for most of the following two decades — spending approximately 15 of 21 years (1989–2010) confined to her Rangoon home — while declining to leave to be with her dying husband in England. She led her party to a landslide election victory in 2015. Her reputation has been complicated by her silence on the Rohingya genocide during her time in government (2016–2021). She was again detained following the 2021 military coup. Aung San Suu Kyi lived b. 1945.