FREE AUNG SAN SUU KYI: A BIOGRAPHY PDF Jesper Bengtsson | 240 pages | 28 May 2012 | Potomac Books Inc | 9781612341590 | English | Dulles, United States An icon's journey: Aung San Suu Kyi's life in troubled Myanmar | ロイター Since no biography was printed in Les Prix Nobelthis chronology has been assembled by the editor. Favourite brother is to drown tragically Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography an early age. General Aung San assassinated. Suu Kyi is two years old. Daw Khin Kyi becomes a prominent public Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography, heading social planning and social policy bodies. The Independent Union of Burma is established. Suu Kyi accompanies mother to New Delhi. Thant of Burma is Secretary-General. Postponing studies, Suu Kyi joins U. Evenings and weekends volunteers at hospital, helping indigent patients in programs of reading and companionship. Marries Michael Aris, joins him in Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, where he tutors royal family and heads Translation Department. While raising her children, Suu Kyi begins writing, researches for biography of father, and assists Michael in Himalayan studies. See Freedom from Fearpp. Travels to London when mother is there Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography cataract surgery. Family returns to Oxford. July Resignation of General Ne Win, since military dictator of Burma. Popular demonstrations of protest continuing. August 8. Mass uprising throughout country. Violent suppression by military kills thousands. August Suu Kyi, in first political action, sends open letter to government, asking for formation of independent consultative committee to prepare multi-party elections. In first public speech, she addresses Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography hundred thousand people outside Shwedagon Pagoda, calling for democratic government. Michael and her two sons are there. September Political gatherings of Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography than four persons banned. Arrests and sentencing without trial reaffirmed. Parliamentary elections to be held, but in expectation that multiplicity of parties will prevent clear result. Policy of non-violence and civil disobedience. Defying ban, Suu Kyi makes speech-making tour throughout country to large audiences. December Daw Khin Kyi dies at age of seventy-six. Funeral of Daw Khin Kyi. Huge funeral procession. Suu Kyi vows that as her father and mother had served the people of Burma, so too would she, even unto death. Suu Kyi continues campaign despite Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography, arrests and killings by Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography. April 5. Incident in Irawaddy Delta when Suu Kyi courageously walks toward rifles soldiers are aiming at her. Suu Kyi placed under house arrest, without charge or trial. Sons already with her. Michael flies to Rangoon, finds her on third day of hunger strike, asking to be sent to prison to join students arrested at her home. Ends strike when good treatment of students is promised. SLORC Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography to recognise results. October European Parliament awards Suu Kyi Sakharov human rights prize. Also in Norwegian, French, Spanish translations. Alexander and Kim accept prize for mother in Oslo ceremony. Suu Kyi remains in detention, having rejected offer to free her if she will leave Burma and withdraw from politics. Worldwide appeal growing for her release. In the last four years her movements have still been restricted. While she has had some opportunities to telephone her family in England, she is regularly denounced in the government-controlled media, and there is concern for her personal safety. Efforts to revive any NLD party activities have been balked, and its members have been jailed and physically attacked. In the first months after detention was ended, she was able to speak to large gatherings of supporters outside her home, but this was stopped. Yet her popularity in the country has not diminished. Internationally her voice has been heard not infrequently. Reporters with cameras and videotape have been able to interview her in person, and telephone interviews with the media outside Burma have also been published. Using video cassettes she has sent out statements, including the keynote address to the NGO Forum at the U. There have been a number of visitors from abroad, including a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, whom she told that Norway will be the first country she will visit when free to travel. Suu Kyi discourages tourists from visiting Burma and businessmen from investing in the country until it is free. On March 27,Michael Aris died of prostate cancer in London. He had petitioned the Burmese authorities to allow him to visit Suu Kyi one last time, but they had rejected his request. He had not seen her since a Christmas visit in The government always urged her to join her family abroad, but she knew that she would not be allowed to return. This separation she regarded as one of the sacrifices she had had to make in order to work for a free Burma. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above. Aung San Suu Kyi born in Rangoon, third child in family. February Suu Kyi prohibited from standing for election. Edited with introduction by Michael Aris. New York and London: Penguin, Includes essays by friends and scholars. Voice of Hope: Conversations. Clements, Alan and Leslie Kean. New York: Aperture, Clements, Alan. Burma: The Next Killing Fields. Tucson, Arizona; Odonian Press, With a foreword by the Dalai Lama. Lintner, Bertil. Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since Colorado: Westview, By a well-informed Swedish Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography. Mirante, Edith T. Burmese Looking Glass. New York: Grove, Smith, Martin J. Burma: Intrangency and the Politics of Ethnicity. London: Zed Books, A detailed and well-organised account by a journalist of the violent conflict between the military government and the many minorities. Victor, Barbara. A sympathetic account by a wellpublished author and journalist, whose research in Burma included interviews with government leaders. Back to top Back To Top Takes users back to the top of the page. Nobel Prizes Twelve laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize infor achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. Their work and discoveries range from the formation of black holes and genetic scissors to efforts to combat hunger and develop new auction formats. See them all presented here. Select the category or categories you would like to filter by Physics. Economic Sciences. Aung San Suu Kyi - Biography However, hundreds of people could still be in detention or face detention because of their political activities, ethnicity or religion in Burma and none of the repressive laws allowing the military-backed government to detain people without trial and restrict other freedoms have been repealed. They had two sons, Alexander and Kim. The military regime responded to the uprising with brute force, killing up to 5, demonstrators on 8th August Following a military coup on 18th Septemberon 24th September a new pro-democracy party, the National League for Democracy, was formed. Aung San Suu Kyi gave numerous speeches calling for freedom and democracy, and political activities continued across the country. Aung San Suu Kyi was banned from personally standing in the election. Despite conditions around the elections being far from free and fair with Aung San Suu Kyi and other democracy activists being detained, biased media, and intimidation of politicians, the voting on the day was relatively free and fair. The dictatorship never recognised the results of the election, and refused to hand over power. When released she faced restrictions on travel. He had petitioned the Burmese authorities to allow him to visit Aung San Suu Kyi one last time, but they Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography rejected his request. He had not seen her since a Christmas visit in The government always urged Aung San Suu Kyi to join her family abroad, but she knew that she would not be allowed to return to Burma. Detained Again In Aung San Suu Kyi was again placed under house arrest after repeated attempts to leave the capital, Rangoon, to hold political meetings in other parts of the country. Released Again InAung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest and with freedom to travel around the country. He had facilitated secret meetings between Aung San Suu Kyi and the military. Confidence building steps had been agreed, including that the dictatorship would stop the vehement attacks on Aung San Suu Kyi in the media, and the NLD would stop publicly calling for sanctions, although its policy of still supporting targeted economic sanctions remained. However, when it came to move from confidence building meetings, and instead start dealing with matters of substance, the dictatorship refused to engage in any meaningful dialogue. As a low-level envoy without significant political backing from the UN itself or the international community, Razali was unable to persuade the Generals to move the Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography forward. After waiting patiently, Aung San Suu Kyi began to travel the country, holding meetings at which tens of thousands of people turned out to see her, dashing the hopes of the Generals that during her long period of detention the people would have forgotten her, and her support would have waned. This political militia was set up and organised by the military, with Than Shwe, dictator of Burma, as its President. It later transformed as the Union Solidarity and Development Party, the political party front for the military in the elections held on 7th November It was an attempt by Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography dictatorship to assassinate Aung San Suu Kyi, using a civilian front so as not to take the blame. The attack became known at the Depayin Massacre.