Aung San Suu Kyi –

Myanmar State Counsellor

• Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945) is a
Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 
Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as 
State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a 
prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs
 from 2016 to 2021. She has served as the
chairperson of the 
National League for Democracy (NLD) since
2011, having been the general secretary from
1988 to 2011.[5][6] She played a vital role in 
Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial 
democracy in the 2010s.
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Some of her noted influences in Myanmar:
• She was once seen as a beacon for human rights - a principled activist who gave up
her freedom to challenge the ruthless army generals who ruled Myanmar for decades.

• Inspired by the non-violent campaigns of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King and
India's Mahatma Gandhi, she organised rallies and travelled around the country, calling for
peaceful democratic reform and free elections.

• The Rohingya crisis

• Since becoming Myanmar's state counsellor, her leadership has been partly defined by the
treatment of the country's mostly Muslim Rohingya minority.
• In 2017 hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh due to an
army crackdown sparked by deadly attacks on police stations in Rakhine state.