Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician who has dedicated her entire life to bringing democracy to her

country. She has faced house arrest for most of her life, extreme poverty and not seeing her family for years. She is still fighting today. What was the problem? Why Did She Care? The political state of Burma has Aung San Suu Kyi was already been dire for a while. The well known in Burma because country isnt democratic; the of her father. His name was government held elections but Aung San and he was killed by disregarded the results. Twenty the Burmese government in years ago, people began to 1947. He was known as the decide enough was enough. father of Burma and was well Burma was, and still is, a liked by the population. He military run state and the gave his life to making a population were tired of not better Burma and inspired his getting a say in what happened only daughter to do the same. to their country, so protests She also cared because she broke out. The protests were had seen the devastation that peaceful, but the military ended the bloodiest demonstration What did she do? After the Four Eights demonstration, Aung San Suu Kyi made her first political action. She wrote a letter to the Government politely asking for a democratic election. They rejected the suggestion, and this prompted her to make her first political speech outside the Buddhist Shewedagon Pagoda. People turned up in their thousands to hear the daughter of the father of Burma speak. This brave speech calling for the people or Burma to take a stand was the first of many speeches. Later that year she was elected leader of the National League for Democracy, who consequently won the elections with 59% of the votes and claimed 82% of the seats in parliament. This victory was disregarded by the government. Just before the victory, Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest. She refused money for food from the government and decided to sell her furniture instead of accepting help; these sacrifices won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She was banned from going to the ceremony unless she left politics for good. She denied and instead sent her son to accept the award on her behalf. Her son made a moving speech telling everyone that the award was won by Burma, and all the men and women that had laid their lives on the line. After hearing this moving speech, fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureates wanted to visit The Lady but were denied access to Burma. Shortly after the Nobel Awards in Oslo, Aung San Suu Kyis story became global, and she was