Here’s a take a look at the lifetime of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Start date: June 19, 1945
Start place: Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar)
Start identify: Aung San Suu Kyi
Father: Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Military. Helped negotiate Burma’s independence from Britain. Assassinated on July 19, 1947.
Mom: Ma Khin Kyi, diplomat and later an envoy to India.
Marriage: Michael Aris (January 1, 1972-March 27, 1999, his dying)
Kids: Kim (Burmese identify: Htein Lin) and Alexander (Burmese identify: Myint San Aung)
Schooling: St. Hughes School, Oxford College, B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics, 1967
Faith: Buddhist
Known as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; “Daw” is an honorific title.
Grew up in Myanmar and India however moved to England within the Sixties.
1964 – Strikes to England to check at Oxford College.
1969-1971 – Works on the United Nations in New York as assistant secretary for the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions.
1985-1986 – Is a visiting scholar on the Heart for Southeast Asian Research, Kyoto College, Japan.
1987 – Is a fellow on the Indian Institute of Superior Research in Simla, India.
April 1988 – Returns to Myanmar when her mom suffers a extreme stroke.
August 26, 1988 – In her first public deal with, exterior the Shwedagon Pagoda, requires a multiparty democratic authorities.
September 24, 1988 – Co-founds the Nationwide League for Democracy (NLD), a celebration devoted to nonviolence and civil disobedience, and is appointed basic secretary.
July 20, 1989 – Is positioned beneath home arrest for fees of attempting to divide the army, fees she denies.
Might 27, 1990 – Her social gathering, the NLD, wins greater than 80% of the legislative seats, however the State Regulation and Order Restoration Council doesn’t acknowledge the election outcomes.
July 10, 1991 – Wins the Sakharov human rights prize from the European Parliament.
October 14, 1991 – Wins the Nobel Peace Prize “for her non-violent wrestle for democracy and human rights.”
July 10, 1995 – Is launched from home arrest, however her political exercise is restricted.
September 23, 2000 – Is once more positioned beneath home arrest.
December 6, 2000 – US President Invoice Clinton awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Suu Kyi in absentia.
Might 6, 2002 – Is launched from home arrest.
Might 30, 2003 – Whereas touring in Myanmar, her motorcade is attacked by a pro-government mob and he or she is held by the army. Later, she is positioned beneath home arrest.
November 29, 2004 – Learns her home arrest has been prolonged for one more yr.
Might 2006 – Home arrest is prolonged for one more yr.
June 9, 2006 – US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Sean McCormack tells reporters that Suu Kyi has been hospitalized for an undisclosed ailment.
Might 25, 2007 – The federal government extends her home arrest for one more yr.
Might 6, 2008 – US President George W. Bush indicators laws awarding a Congressional Gold Medal to Suu Kyi.
Might 27, 2008 – The federal government extends her home arrest for one more yr.
Might 14, 2009 – Suu Kyi is arrested and charged with violating the phrases of her home arrest. That is in response to an incident earlier within the month, when American John Yettaw swam uninvited to Suu Kyi’s lakeside home. If convicted she faces as much as 5 years in jail.
Might 18, 2009 – Suu Kyi’s trial on fees of presidency subversion begins.
August 11, 2009 – Suu Kyi is discovered responsible of violating the phrases of her home arrest and sentenced to 3 years in jail with arduous labor. The sentence is decreased to 18 extra months of house confinement.
Might 7, 2010 – The NLD refuses to register for the election, thereby disqualifying itself as a political social gathering, and formally dissolves.
November 13, 2010 – Suu Kyi is launched from home arrest. She has spent 15 of the final 21 years beneath home arrest.
November 15, 2010 – Chatting with reporters on the headquarters of the NLD, Suu Kyi pledges to maintain working towards restoring democracy and enhancing human rights in Myanmar.
January 28, 2011 – Suu Kyi’s recorded message, by which she stresses the necessity for Myanmar to reestablish ties with the remainder of the world, is performed on the World Financial Discussion board in Switzerland.
November 18, 2011 – Nyan Win, the spokesman for Suu Kyi’s Nationwide League for Democracy, says that Suu Kyi will take part within the subsequent elections. The NLD introduced earlier within the day that it deliberate to re-register as a political social gathering and take part in all future parliamentary elections.
December 13, 2011 – The NLD is granted permission to register for future elections in Myanmar.
January 18, 2012 – Suu Kyi registers to run for a parliamentary seat.
April 1, 2012 – Wins a seat in parliament in Myanmar’s first multiparty elections since 1990.
Might 2, 2012 – Together with 33 different newly elected members of her social gathering, Suu Kyi takes the oath of workplace for parliament, resolving an deadlock over the oath’s wording that had been stopping her from taking her seat within the legislature.
Might 29, 2012 – Makes historical past by stepping on international soil for the primary time in additional than twenty years when she arrives in Bangkok, Thailand.
June 1, 2012 – Suu Kyi speaks on the World Financial Discussion board on East Asia.
June 16, 2012 – Delivers her acceptance speech for her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, in Oslo, Norway.
June 21, 2012 – Addresses each homes of the British parliament.
September 19, 2012 – Suu Kyi accepts the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington, DC. She later meets with US President Barack Obama.
November 19, 2012 – Meets with Obama on the lakeside villa the place she spent years beneath home arrest. Obama praises Suu Kyi for her braveness and dedication throughout his go to to Myanmar, the primary go to by a sitting US president.
March 10, 2013 – Wins reelection as opposition chief.
October 22, 2013 – Suu Kyi accepts the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in Strasbourg, France, initially awarded to her in 1991.
June 10, 2015 – Throughout her first go to to China, meets with Chinese language President Xi Jinping.
November 13, 2015 – Myanmar’s election fee pronounces that Suu Kyi’s NLD social gathering has received a historic majority within the nation’s first freely held parliamentary elections. Suu Kyi just isn’t capable of grow to be president due to a constitutional modification that prohibits anybody with international kin from turning into the nation’s chief.
April 5, 2016 – Suu Kyi is called state counselor, a job created particularly for her. The put up permits her to keep in touch with ministries, departments, organizations, associations and people, and makes her accountable to parliament, in accordance with Myanmar’s state media. Whereas Suu Kyi is barred from holding the workplace of president, the brand new place is broadly anticipated to permit her to rule by proxy.
September 14, 2016 – Suu Kyi meets with Obama on the White Home for the primary time since turning into the de facto chief of her nation. As Suu Kyi arrives, Obama points an announcement saying he’ll reinstate Myanmar to the Generalized System of Preferences, which can assist Myanmar with financial improvement, exportation of products and job creation.
April 5, 2017 – Chatting with the BBC, Suu Kyi denies that ethnic cleaning has taken place towards Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority, amid stories of human rights abuses in Rakhine.
March 7, 2018 – The US Holocaust Museum pronounces it’s rescinding the Elie Wiesel Award granted to Suu Kyi in 2012 due to her failure to intervene within the humanitarian disaster occurring in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
November 13, 2018 – Amnesty Worldwide pronounces their determination to revoke the Ambassador of Conscience Award from Suu Kyi, which she acquired from them in 2009. Suu Kyi has had a string of awards and accolades revoked amid the Rohingya disaster.
December 2019 – Suu Kyi leads a authorized crew to the Worldwide Court docket of Justice within the Netherlands after the nation of Gambia filed a lawsuit on this planet court docket alleging that Myanmar dedicated “genocidal acts” that “have been supposed to destroy the [country’s persecuted] Rohingya as a gaggle” by mass homicide, rape and destruction of communities.
January 23, 2020 – The UN’s prime court docket orders Myanmar to forestall acts of genocide towards the Rohingya and to cease destroying proof.
November 13, 2020 – Suu Kyi’s NLD wins sufficient parliamentary seats to kind the following authorities, in accordance with official outcomes of a basic election.
February 1, 2021 – Myanmar’s army seizes energy in a coup and declares a state of emergency after detaining Suu Kyi and different senior authorities leaders in early morning raids.
March 1, 2021 – Suu Kyi seems in court docket by way of video convention the place she is charged with two extra counts. One beneath Myanmar’s colonial-era penal code prohibiting publishing data that will “trigger concern or alarm,” and one other beneath a telecommunications legislation stipulating licenses for gear, her lawyer stated in accordance with Reuters. This brings the full fees towards her to 4. In February, she was charged in relation to a nationwide catastrophe legislation and a depend beneath the nation’s import and export act.
April 12, 2021 – Suu Kyi’s legal professional tells CNN that Suu Kyi is going through a sixth cost beneath the nation’s Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Regulation. Earlier within the month Suu Kyi was charged with violating the official secrets and techniques act.
April 16, 2021 – Opponents of the army junta announce the creation of an interim nationwide unity authorities, and identify Suu Kyi because the de facto chief.
Might 24, 2021 – Suu Kyi attends a court docket listening to, her first look in individual because the army seized energy on February 1.
June 14, 2021 – Suu Kyi’s trial begins. The trial addresses three fees, together with that Suu Kyi, violated a communications legislation by allegedly importing and utilizing a variety of walkie-talkie radios, and violated coronavirus restrictions throughout election campaigning final yr.
November 16, 2021 – Suu Kyi is charged with election fraud by Myanmar’s Union Election Fee.
December 6, 2021 – Suu Kyi is sentenced to 4 years in jail on fees of incitement and breaking Covid-19 guidelines. Her sentence is later decreased to 2 years.
January 10, 2022 – Suu Kyi is sentenced to a different 4 years in jail. She was discovered responsible of a number of fees that embody possession of unlicensed walkie-talkies, a supply with data of the court docket proceedings advised CNN.
April 27, 2022 – A court docket sentences Suu Kyi to 5 years in jail after discovering her responsible within the first of 11 corruption instances towards her, in accordance with a supply with data of proceedings. The case facilities on allegations that Suu Kyi accepted 11.4 kg (402 oz) of gold and money funds totaling $600,000 from her protege-turned-accuser, former Yangon chief minister Phyo Min Thein. Suu Kyi has denied the costs and referred to as the allegations “absurd.”
August 16, 2022 – State media stories that Suu Kyi has been sentenced to 6 extra years in jail after being convicted on 4 additional counts of corruption. The most recent verdict within the sequence of trials towards the Nobel laureate takes her complete jail time period to 17 years.
September 2, 2022 – Is sentenced to 3 years in jail with arduous labor on fees of electoral fraud. The most recent verdict within the sequence of trials towards the Nobel laureate takes her complete jail time period to twenty years. Nevertheless, that is the primary time Suu Kyi has been sentenced to arduous labor because the nation’s most up-to-date army coup in 2021. She was given arduous labor in a separate trial beneath a earlier administration in 2009 however that sentence was commuted.
