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|birth_date=June 19, 1945 (age 75)
|birth_date=June 19, 1945 (age 75)
|birth_place=Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar)
|birth_place=Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar)
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Largely influenced by the example of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], Suu Kyi entered politics to work on behalf of increased Burmese democracy, helping to set up the National League for Democracy on 27 September 1988. For this, she was placed under [[house arrest]] on 20 July 1989. The Burmese military [[junta]] offered to let her go into [[exile]], but she refused. Various international figures, from [[George W. Bush]] to [[Ban Ki-moon]], have called upon the [[junta leader]] General [[Than Shwe]] to release her, these requests have been ignored by the despotic regime for a long time. But on November 13, 2010 she was released from house arrest by the military junta.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/13/release-order-read-burma-democracy-leader/ Burma Junta Releases Democracy Leader Suu Kyi</ref> Today she is the leader of her party ''National League for Democracy''.
Largely influenced by the example of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], Suu Kyi entered politics to work on behalf of increased Burmese democracy, helping to set up the National League for Democracy on 27 September 1988. For this, she was placed under [[house arrest]] on 20 July 1989. The Burmese military [[junta]] offered to let her go into [[exile]], but she refused. Various international figures, from [[George W. Bush]] to [[Ban Ki-moon]], have called upon the [[junta leader]] General [[Than Shwe]] to release her, these requests have been ignored by the despotic regime for a long time. But on November 13, 2010 she was released from house arrest by the military junta.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/13/release-order-read-burma-democracy-leader/ Burma Junta Releases Democracy Leader Suu Kyi</ref> Today she is the leader of her party ''National League for Democracy''.
She was deposed during the 2021 Myanmar coup d'etat.
==See also==
==See also==
* [http://www.dassk.com/index.php Aung San Suu Kyi's website]
* [http://www.dassk.com/index.php Aung San Suu Kyi's website]