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Then again, he wouldn’t be the first person to get a Nobel Peace Prize they didn’t deserve. Obama won one simply for not being George W. Bush. The 1991 Burmese Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, later ...
Referred to as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; “Daw” is an honorific title. Grew up in Myanmar and India but moved to England in the 1960s. Timeline 1964 – Moves to England to study at Oxford University.
Obama praises Suu Kyi for her courage and determination during his visit to Myanmar, the first visit by a sitting US president. March 10, 2013 – Wins reelection as opposition leader.
With strong encouragement from President Obama, that’s what happened. In the general election of 2015 Suu Kyi became Myanmar’s first honestly elected leader since 1962.
Suu Kyi welcomed a series of foreign leaders, journalists and diplomats. Most notably, in 2012, then-US president Barack Obama visited Suu Kyi at the house and praised her as an "icon of democracy." ...
As Aung San Suu Kyi climbed the steps of the gargantuan parliamentary building into her first session as an elected lawmaker, I watched along with my colleagues in the offices of The Myanmar Times ...
LADY BY THE LAKE The daughter of independence hero Aung San, who was assassinated in 1947 when she was 2 years old, Suu Kyi spent much of her young life overseas.
The four-year jail sentence handed to Aung San Suu Kyi, the deposed leader of Myanmar and Nobel laureate, is the latest twist in the saga of a former global peace icon whose once stellar ...
This time, it’s unlikely Aung San Suu Kyi, who was once called a “beacon of hope” by former president Barack Obama for her non-violent resistance against the military, will receive as much ...