Aung San, (born Feb. 13, 1915, Natmauk, Burma [now Myanmar]—died July 19, 1947, Rangoon [now Yangon]), Burmese nationalist leader and assassinated hero who was instrumental in securing Burma’s independence from Great Britain. In August, however, Suu Kyi went to trial and was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison. But the political architecture to constrain her is now in place. Aung San is a legend and a national hero in Burma-in the eyes of the people and military alike. A dramatic rise in fuel prices in 2007 triggers anti-government protests led by Buddhist monks – the so-called “Saffron Revolution.” Flanked by riot police, Suu Kyi briefly greets the monks at the gates of her home – the first public sighting of her since 2003. Tuesday 19 Jun 1945. They describe a politician who is principled and devoted but also flawed and alone, burdened with limited powers and impossible expectations.Some say she hasn’t been sympathetic to ethnic minorities and was slow to grasp the scale and brutality of the military’s campaign against the Rohingya. She says, for example, that military operations are over, even as Rohingya flee and villages burn across northern Rakhine State.“Most world leaders have a team of advisers and confidants to provide fact-based perspectives, and she hasn’t had that for many years,” says activist Debbie Stothard, who visited Suu Kyi during her time under house arrest. The United Nations accuses Myanmar’s military of a “genocidal” campaign against Rohingya Muslims, and says Suu Kyi and her government did nothing to prevent it. Her NLD party wins 43 of the 44 parliamentary seats it contests, and Suu Kyi becomes MP for Kawhmu, a small town near Yangon. 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Until its roof is repaired in 2010, she writes, the monsoon months are spent moving “bowls, basins and buckets around my bedroom like pieces in an intricate game of chess, trying to catch the leaks.” She also reads, meditates and plays the piano. In 2008, the military junta holds a sham referendum to ratify a constitution drafted to guarantee it sweeping powers. Religious violence spreads far beyond Rakhine State. In a letter sent to the Burmese leader, the museum noted her failures to speak out against the brutal military campaigns that devastated the Rohingya population. They want the mine closed for environmental and other reasons, but a government inquiry, led by Suu Kyi, says it should be kept open to encourage foreign investment. She was placed under house arrest in 1989 and spent 15 of the next 21 years in custody, winning the 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace along the way. Aung San Suu Kyi laid a wreath on the tomb of nine politicians, including her father, who were assassinated 70 years ago. How did one of the world’s most admired leaders reach this pass? With Suu Kyi having won reelection as leader of her party in 2013, the country again held parliamentary elections on November 8, 2015, in what was viewed as the most open voting process in decades. They include two Reuters reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, sentenced to seven years after exposing a military-led massacre of 10 Rohingya men.The arrests further alienate former supporters. Then she is released and, in 2003, attacked by pro-junta thugs who kill several of her supporters. “It’s not true that she doesn’t care about ethnic people,” he says. Suu Kyi was the youngest of three children - she had two brothers, Aung San Lin, who died at a young age in a swimming accident, and Aung San Oo, who migrated to the San Diego, California and became a citizen of the United States. Amnesty International calls Suu Kyi a “human rights superstar.”. They have two sons. Born. “Her moral authority is what people follow,” she says. At the time, Pasternak Slater said, she had assumed Suu Kyi was referring to the violence against the Rohingya.“But actually,” said Pasternak Slater, “it occurred to me long after that she was thinking about herself: ‘Why has everybody turned against me?’”In this visual history, Reuters traces the journey of Suu Kyi and her troubled nation. She is released in 1995 and regularly speaks to large crowds outside her gates (pictured). “Her resolve was to throw everything at it and see how much she could extract,” he says. She has also received the Rafto prize (1990), the International Simón Bolívar Prize (1992) and the Jawaharlal Nehru Award (1993), among other accolades. This energizes the demonstrations, which the military soon quashes. She has forgotten it or lost it.”. 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