born in Yangon, Myanmar, which is now called Rangoon, Burma. Suu Kyi was the

daughter of national leader General Aung San and Daw Khin Kyi. Suu Kyi father was

assassinated July 19, 1947, two years after she was born. Suu Kyi stayed in Rangoon

until she was 15 years old, then she went to India to study politics. After she finished at India she then went to Oxford University were she received her BA in philosophy and economics.

After Suu Kyi finished Oxford she began working as a research assistant at the University of London. Then she went to New York an spent three years as a United Nations secretariat. In New York she shared an apartment with an old friend from Burma. They kept living as if they were in Burma. Their American friend called their apartment “A Burma home in Manhattan.”

In 1971 she became engaged to Michael Aris, and married him in January of 1972. She stilled live in New York while Michael lived in London. In 1973 Suu Kyi gave birth to her oldest son Alexander, four years later she had Michael Jr. Suu Kyi and her family had no problem packing up and going to visit her home town, and so the kids c

The women of Burma only wanted to be free from the tyranny of rising prices that make a household an exhausting business. They wanted to be free from anxiety that their husbands might be penalized for independent thinking or that their children might not be given a chance in life. The women want to be free from not having to ell their bodies to support their families.

in her homeland, which eventually led to her house arrest from 1989-1995. She became am inspiration to her people and ultimately was awarded the Noble Prize.

Suu Kyi wrote about her lifetime and published six books. The first book was called The Voice of Hope, like Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and the Dalai

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