Suu Kyi Born: Democracy Icon With a Complicated Legacy
Aung San Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest for leading Myanmar's democracy movement, earning the Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent resistance to military rule. Her later silence on the Rohingya genocide after finally gaining power shattered her international reputation and raised difficult questions about the gap between symbolic resistance and the exercise of political authority.
June 19, 1945
81 years ago
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