Timeline


 * || ===**__Aung San Suu Kyi’s Timeline__ **=== ||
 * ===**1945 **=== || ===**Aung San Suu Kyi was born on the 19th June 1945 in Rangoon, New Burma **=== ||
 * ===**1947 **=== || ===**July 19, Aung San Suu Kyi’s dad is assassinated when Suu Kyi was only 2 years old **=== ||
 * ===**1960: **=== || ===**Daw Khin Kyi, Aung’s mother, was appointed Burma's ambassador to India. Suu Kyi accompanies mother to New Delhi. **=== ||
 * ===**1960-64: **=== || ===**Suu Kyi goes to high school and Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi. **=== ||
 * ===**1969-71 **=== || ===**She goes to New York for study but postpones her studies, to joins U.N. Secretariat as Assistant Secretary. **=== ||
 * ===**1972: **=== || ===**Marries Michael Aris on the 1st January. She decides to join him in Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, where he tutors royal family and heads Translation Department. She becomes the Research Officer in the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. **=== ||
 * ===**1973: **=== || ===**They return to England for birth of Alexander in London. **=== ||
 * ===**1977 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;"> Birth of second son, Kim at Oxford. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1988 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">Aung San Moves in with her unwell mother on University Avenue in Rangoon. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1988 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">August – After a military coup, protests, marches and uprisings break out across Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi, a scholar and a journalist, emerges as a leader of the democratic opposition. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1988 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">September– Aung San Suu Kyi co-founds and leads the National League for Democracy. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1989: **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">Suu Kyi continues campaign despite harassment, arrests and killings by soldiers. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1989 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">February 17. Suu Kyi banned from standing for election. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1989 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">July 20. Suu Kyi placed under house arrest, without charge or trial. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1990: **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">May 27. Despite detention of Suu Kyi, NLD wins election with 82% of parliamentary seats. SLORC refuses to recognise results. **===

**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;"> October 12. Suu Kyi granted 1990 Rafto Human Rights Prize. **
|| ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;"> October 14. Norwegian Nobel Committee announces Suu Kyi is winner of 1991 Peace Prize. **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">Aung San Suu Kyi reaches a total of 15 years in detention, most of it under house arrest. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1991: **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">July 10. European Parliament awards Suu Kyi Sakharov human rights prize. **===
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1991 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">December. //Freedom from Fear// published by Penguin in New York, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1991 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">December 10. Aung San Suu Kyi receives the Nobel Peace Prize “for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.” Her sons, Alexander and Kim receive the prize for their mother in Oslo ceremony. Worldwide appeal growing for her release. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1992: **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">Suu Kyi announces that she will use $1.3 million prize money to establish health and education trust for Burmese people. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1995: **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">July 10: SLORC releases Suu Kyi from house arrest after six years of detention. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">1999 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">Her husband, Michael Aris died of cancer **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">2000 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">She was detained again. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">2002 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">Released after two years on the 6th May **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">2003 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">Detained again on the 30th May but was held in secret detention for 3 months after te Depayin massacre but was then returned to house arrest. **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">2007 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">May: House arrest is extended for another year **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">2007 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">Sept: First public appearance since 2003, in greeting the Buddhist monks **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">2008 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">May: House arrest extended for another year **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">2009 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">May: Charged with breaking detention rules after an American sneaks in to her compound **=== ||
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">2010 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">Oct 24 **===
 * ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">2010 **=== || ===**<span style="color: #ff70c6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">Nov 13Aung San Suu Kyi is released from detention. **=== ||

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