Further information:
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi still is under house arrest by 1975 law to Safeguard the State from the Dangers of Destructive Elements (known as 1975 State Protection Act 10 B).
Aung San Suu Kyi was born on 19 June 1945. Her father, Aung San, negotiated Burma’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, and was assassinated by his rivals in the same year. She grew up with her mother, Khin Kyi Suu Kyi was educated in English Catholic schools for much of her childhood in Burma.
She continued her education at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, obtaining a B.A. degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1969 and a Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1985. She also worked for the government of the Union of Myanmar. In 1972, Aung San Suu Kyi married Dr. Michael Aris, a scholar of Tibetan culture, living abroad in Bhutan. The following year she gave birth to her first son, Alexander, in London; and in 1977 she had her second son, Kim.
Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Burma in 1988 to take care of her ailing mother. By coincidence, in that year, the long-time leader of the socialist ruling party, General Ne Win, stepped down, leading to mass demonstrations for democratisation on August 8, 1988 (8-8-88, a day seen as favorable), which were violently suppressed. A new military junta took power.
-And, she was placed under house arrest on July 20, 1989 in Rangoon, under martial law that allows for detention without charge or trial for three years.
-On July 10 1995 she was released from house arrest.
-Then on September 23rd 2000, Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest again.
-After 19 months of this, she was freed on May 6, 2002.
-Following the Depayin massacre she was held in secret detention for over 3 months before being returned to house arrest on May 30 2003.
-On May 25, 2007, her house arrest was extended by one year.
-On October 24, 2007, she reached 12 years under house arrest. Solidarity protests held at 12 cities around the world.
-On Saturday, 22 September 2007, although still under house arrest, Suu Kyi made a brief public appearance at the gate of her residence in Yangon to accept the blessings of Buddhist monks who were marching in support of human rights.
It was reported that she had been moved the following day to Insein Prison (where she had been detained in 2003), but meetings with UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari near her Rangoon home on 30 September and 2 October established that she remained under house arrest.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained without trial for 12 of the past 18 years, was seen being driven from the residence where she is held under house arrest to the state guest house where Ibrahim Gambari was staying on Saturday, March 8, 2008. Gambari, representing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, was scheduled to hold talks with Suu Kyi, but details of their meeting were likely to be closely held.
Her detention was prolonged in 2008. |
