Suu Kyi
Britishnoun
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But he was outweighed by other nationalist Burmese leaders who didn’t share his desire—Aung San, for instance, the premier of British Burma, until his assassination in July 1947, and the father of Aung San Suu Kyi; and U Saw, a lawyer who, Mr. Dalrymple tells us, would “transform anti-Indian xenophobia into a political ideology.”
That defence did not spare Suu Kyi, 80, from military detention, where she has languished since the military coup five years ago.
From Barron's
Yet at the end of that year Aung San Suu Kyi was released, and within 18 months she had been elected an MP.
From BBC
As of Wednesday the Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent a total of 20 years in detention in Myanmar, five of them since her government was overthrown by a military coup in February 2021.
From BBC
He launched his coup on 1 February 2021, the day Aung San Suu Kyi was due to inaugurate her new government.
From BBC
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