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Aung San Suu Kyi has finally been released from 'house arrest' for her crime of winning a democratic election.

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Aung San Suu Kyi

Biography*
1942: September 6. Marriage of Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army, and Ma Khin Kyi (becoming Daw Khin Kyi), senior nurse of Rangoon General Hospital, where he had recovered from the rigours of the march into Burma.
1945: June 19. Aung San Suu Kyi born in Rangoon, third child in family. "Aung San" for father, "Kyi" for mother, "Suu" for grandmother, also day of week of birth.
Favourite brother is to drown tragically at an early age. The older brother, will settle in San Diego, California, becoming United States citizen.
1947: July 19. General Aung San assassinated. Suu Kyi is two years old. Daw Khin Kyi becomes a prominent public figure, heading social planning and social policy bodies.
1948: January 4. The Independent Union of Burma is established.
1960: Daw Khin Kyi appointed Burma's ambassador to India. Suu Kyi accompanies mother to New Delhi.
1960-64: Suu Kyi at high school and Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi.
1964-67: Oxford University, B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics at St. Hugh's College (elected Honorary Fellow, 1990).
British "parents" are Lord Gore-Booth, former British ambassador to Burma and High Commissioner in India, and his wife, at whose home Suu Kyi meets Michael Aris, student of Tibetan civilisation.
1969-71: She goes to New York for graduate study, staying with family friend Ma Than E, staff member at the United Nations, where U. Thant of Burma is Secretary-General. Postponing studies, Suu Kyi joins U.N. secretariat as Assistant Secretary, Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions. Evenings and weekends volunteers at hospital, helping indigent patients in programs of reading and companionship.
1972: January 1. Marries Michael Aris, joins him in Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, where he tutors royal family and heads Translation Department. She becomes Research Officer in the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1973: They return to England for birth of Alexander in London.
1974: Michael assumes appointment in Tibetan and Himalayan studies at Oxford University.
1977: Birth of second son, Kim at Oxford.
While raising her children, Suu Kyi begins writing, researches for biography of father, and assists Michael in Himalayan studies.
1984: Publishes Aung San in Leaders of Asia series of University of Queensland Press. (See Freedom from Fear, pp. 3-38.)
1985: For juvenile readers publishes Let's Visit Burma (see Freedom from Fear, pp. 39-81), also books on Nepal and Bhutan in same series for Burke Publishing Company, London.
1985-86: Visiting Scholar, Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, researching father's time in Japan. Kim with her, Alexander with Michael, who has fellowship at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies at Simla in northern India.
1986: On annual visit to grandmother in Rangoon, Alexander and Kim take part in traditional Buddhist ceremony of initiation into monkhood.
1987: With fellowship at Indian Institute Suu Kyi, with Kim, joins Michael and Alexander in Simla. Travels to London when mother is there for cataract surgery.
Publishes "Socio-Political Currents in Burmese Literature, 1910-1940" in journal of Tokyo University. (See Freedom from Fear, pp. 140-164.) September. Family returns to Oxford. Suu Kyi enrolls at London School of Oriental and African Studies to work on advanced degree.
1988: March 31. Informed by telephone of mother's severe stroke, she takes plane next day to Rangoon to help care for Daw Khin Kyi at hospital, then moves her to family home on University Avenue next to Inya Lake in Rangoon.
July 23. Resignation of General Ne Win, since 1962 military dictator of Burma. Popular demonstrations of protest continuing.
August 8. Mass uprising throughout country. Violent suppression by military kills thousands.
August 15. Suu Kyi, in first political action, sends open letter to government, asking for formation of independent consultative committee to prepare multi-party elections.
August 26. In first public speech, she addresses several hundred thousand people outside Shwedagon Pagoda, calling for democratic government. Michael and her two sons are there.
September 18. Military establishes State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). Political gatherings of more 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.
September 24. National League for Democracy (NLD) formed, with Suu Kyi general-secretary. Policy of non-violence and civil disobedience. October-December. Defying ban, Suu Kyi makes speech-making tour throughout country to large audiences.
December 27. Daw Khin Kyi dies at age of seventy-six.
1989: January 2. 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.
January-July. Suu Kyi continues campaign despite harassment, arrests and killings by soldiers.
February 17. Suu Kyi prohibited from standing for election.
April 5. Incident in Irawaddy Delta when Suu Kyi courageously walks toward rifles soldiers are aiming at her.
July 20. 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.
1990: May 27. Despite detention of Suu Kyi, NLD wins election with 82% of parliamentary seats. SLORC refuses to recognise results.
October 12. Suu Kyi granted 1990 Rafto Human Rights Prize.
1991: July 10. European Parliament awards Suu Kyi Sakharov human rights prize.
October 14. Norwegian Nobel Committee announces Suu Kyi is winner of 1991 Peace Prize.
1991: December. Freedom from Fear published by Penguin in New York, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Also in Norwegian, French, Spanish translations.
December 10. 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.
1992: Suu Kyi announces that she will use $1.3 million prize money to establish health and education trust for Burmese people.
1993: Group of Nobel Peace Laureates, denied entry to Burma, visit Burmese refugees on Thailand border, call for Suu Kyi's release, Their appeal later repeated at UN Commission for Human Rights in Geneva.
1994: February. First non-family visitors to Suu Kyi: UN representative, U.S. congressman, New York Times reporter.
September-October. SLORC leaders meet with Suu Kyi, who still asks for a public dialogue.
1995: July 10. SLORC releases Suu Kyi from house arrest after six years of detention.

• 1995: Released from house arrest, but movements restricted

Suu Kyi discourages tourists from visiting Burma and businessmen from investing in the country until it is free. She finds hearing for such pleas among western nations, and the United States has applied economic sanctions against Burma, but Burma's neighbours follow their policy of not intervening in the internal affairs of other sovereign states, and Burma has been admitted into the Association of South Eastern Asian Nations.

On March 27, 1999, 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 1995. 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.
• 2000: Near continuous period of house arrest begins
• Sept 2007: First public appearance since 2003, greeting protesting Buddhist monks
• November 2010: NLD boycotts first election in 20 years and is disbanded; House arrest ends
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Truly, a woman of great substance... :bow:
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What a happy day :)
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Made me very happy to hear that.
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Aung San Suu Kyi is an absolute inspiration.
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It's great news.
I just hope no one else attempts to swim across the lake to her house.
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Great news! I hope it heralds a new beginning for Burma.
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It is time to take a moment to admire the courageous work of this woman.
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Released — out of the frying pan into the fire.
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Greetings,

This is good news indeed, but I can't help but feel there's more to this decision than meets the eye.

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Greetings,
retrofuturist wrote:This is good news indeed, but I can't help but feel there's more to this decision than meets the eye.

:spy:
Here's an acoount of how the release happened:

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (father U Aung San) granted pardon

YANGON, 13 Nov-Chief of Myanmar Police Force Brig-Gen Khin Yi of the Ministry of Home Affairs went to the house of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at No 54/56 on University Avenue, Shwetaunggya Ward-1, Bahan Township at 5 pm today and read the order of the ministry on granting pardon for her on 13 November 2010 when the period of the suspended sentence is up.

Afterwards, Chief of MPF Brig-Gen Khin Yi read the order on granting pardon for Daw Khin Khin Win, daughter of U Tin Ohn, and Ma Win Ma Ma (a) Ange Lay, daughter of U Nyan Lin, who were found guilty under Section 22 of the Law to Safeguard the State Against the Dangers of Those Desiring to Cause Subversive Acts with regard to Criminal Trial 47/2009 of Yangon North District Court, on 13 November 2010 as the period of the suspended sentence is over.

Chief of MPF Brig-Gen Khin Yi was accompanied by Police Col Aung Daing of Yangon Region MPF, Deputy Head of Special Branch Police Col Win Naing Tun, Region Judge U Myint Aung, Region Law Officer U Aung Than Myint and officials.

After reading the orders, Chief of MPF Brig-Gen Khin Yi cordially greeted Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, saying that he was pleased to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi having good health, that their duties are to ensure community peace and prevalence of law and order, that they want the nation to be peaceful and tranquil in the future and that they stand ready to give her whatever help she needs.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi also replied to him in a similar manner.

The Yangon North District Court handed down three years’ imprisonment with labour on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on 14 May 2009, for she was found guilty under Section 22 of the Law to Safeguard the State Against the Dangers of Those Desiring to Cause Subversive Acts with regard to Criminal Trial 47/2009.

However, being the daughter of leader General Aung San who sacrificed his life for the Myanmar’s independence, viewing that peace, tranquility and stability will prevail and that no malice be held against each other, the sentence was amended under Criminal Procedure Code Section 401, Subsection (5) that the half of the sentence to be served is remitted and the remainder of the sentence was to be suspended.

During the period of the suspended sentence, she had already been informed that should she abide by the annexed stipulations, all suspended sentence shall be pardoned.

As she was found to be displaying good conduct in line with the annexed stipulations during the period ahead of the suspended sentence she was granted pardon on 13 November 2010 when the period of the suspended sentence is up.

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I hate to be cynical, but I predict she'll be either assassinated or in jail again within a year.
Hmm... actually, no, I enjoy being cynical.
Then,
saturated with joy,
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