Aung San Suu Kyi, 65, due to years of efforts to achieve democracy in Myanmar in the past 20 years, most of the time she has been under house arrest by the junta.
As the former leader Nelson Mandela and South Africa, as a Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has become an international symbol of peaceful resistance to oppression.
In 1990, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won elections in a landslide victory in Burma, the military government but was declared invalid.
In 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize. At that time Chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, said Aung San Suu Kyi as "an outstanding example of the powerless."
Myanmar last week held its first elections in 20 years, the military government-backed party won a landslide victory.
Aung San Suu Kyi announced that boycotted the elections, a move subject to some criticism.
She led the National League for Democracy in Myanmar that are neither free nor fair and therefore decided to abstain.
Under the new electoral law, the National Democratic Alliance was forced to disband.
Political genealogy
Myanmar independence hero Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of General Aung San.
July 1947, General Aung San was assassinated transition in Myanmar, from Myanmar was only 6 months independent away. That year, Aung San Suu Kyi is only two years old.
In the 1960s, served as ambassador to India to follow Aung San Suu Kyi's mother went to India.
4 years later, she came to Oxford, studying philosophy, politics and economics, and there met her husband, Aris.
Japan and Bhutan in the work and lives, Aung San Suu Kyi to settle in the UK, raising two sons.
In 1947, Aung San Suu Kyi (in) photo with the parents and two brothers.
However, Myanmar has been in her heart.
In 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Myanmar to take care of seriously ill mother, the country is undergoing a major political upheaval.
Thousands of students, civil servants and monks took to the streets to demand democratic reforms.
August 26, 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, said in a speech: "As the daughter of General Aung San, I can not remain indifferent to the current situation."
She was soon elected as leader of the people, against the dictatorship of General Ne Win Ng.
By the U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi of India incentives, Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, organized processions and meetings across the country, calling for peaceful democratic reforms, hold free elections.
However, the procession was made in September the same year, the Burmese military regime's brutal repression of the government.
Military government in the May 1990 general election, even though I was on Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest and deprived of their eligibility criteria, she led the National League for Democracy won a victory.
Myanmar military government refused to hand over power, has been ruling the day.
Years under house arrest
Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest in Yangon for 6 years, was released in July 1995.
However, in September 2000, when she tried to break the travel restrictions to Mandalay, when, once again under house arrest.
May 2002 Aung San Suu Kyi was released unconditionally, but only after more than a year, because of her supporters and government-backed mob clashed was in jail.
Subsequently, she was allowed to go home, but continue to be under house arrest until the free.
Under house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi use of time to learn and exercise: study Japanese, French, and playing the piano.
In recent years, she was allowed to meet with other leaders of the NLD and some foreign diplomats.
However, Aung San Suu Kyi was not allowed to meet her husband and sons.
Her husband died of cancer in 1999. Burmese military government authorities at that time agree with her visit to Britain, but she could no longer worried about returning to Myanmar, there is no place.
Aung San Suu Kyi has not seen his grandchildren.
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