April 8th 2008, 12:07 am
From Monday's
She is currently under detention, with the Burmese junta repeatedly extending her detention. According to the results of the
1990 general election, Suu Kyi earned the right to be
Prime Minister,
as leader of the winning National League for Democracy party, but her
detention by the military junta prevented her from assuming that role.
The
collaborative effort will be published both digitally and as well as in
print. The organizers say an academic research paper on the results is
also to be presented later this year at ISEA2008 in Singapore (
http://www.isea2008.org/)
Here's
how you can participate in the TwitterSuu project: Using Twitter
(@freesuukyi08), Facebook (Twitter Suu) and email
(108presentsforsuu@gmail.com)
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April 7th 2008 -- Twitter Suu Day
By the end of June, we want to receive 1,000,000 million messages to let Suu Kyi know she is in our thoughts and has our support and also to send to the Indian, Chinese and Japanese and other goverments who continue to deal commercially with the Burmese junta. This is in spite of the junta's appalling treatment of Aung San Suu Kyi who has been locked up under house arrest for 19 years. So,
Send Aung San Suu Kyi a message now, please:
Facebook: Twitter Suu, (http://twitter.com/freesuukyi08)
Email: 108presentsforsuu@gmail.com
Skype: ccragg123, leave a message
Identify yourself, please, only with your First Name and Location, and your Age and Profession/Status if you wish.
April 2nd 2008 -- update after Press Release went out this afternoon
And the messages are rolling in -- here are just two from dozens already received today and it's not even Twitter Suu Day! Keem 'em coming, please.
Twitter. Send a message to Twitter Suu
From Abi A***, UK
May hope still reign for Burma and the Burmese people. May they achieve freedom and prosperity
soon under the guidance of Aun San Suu Kyi. Love to Burma and Suu ...
From Terna, Cape Town, South Africa
"It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They
do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal
materials of the mind and self. they become part of you while changing
you. Beware the stories you read or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the
waters of consciousness, they are altering your world." (Ben Okri, Birds of Heaven)
your story - like all of my favourites - was long ago begun and is still unfinished
it echoes and resonates with so many others, elsewhere, elsewhen
even on days when the world - when i - don't think about it consciously
your story still calls insistently on each of us to help to write endings that we will live in
with hope and joy and pride in what we have struggled for
Press Release
Presents for Suu (Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar/Burma)
Launches ‘Twitter Suu Day’, Monday, April 7 2008.
http://108presentsforsuu.googlepages.com/
Starting this coming Monday April 7th, people all over the world are being invited to take part in sending PresentsForSuu
Aung San Suu Kyi (Suu) was first put under house arrest in 1989, 19 years ago. This followed a series of atrocities which reached their height on 080888 and have continued ever since.
Using New Media, the editors of Presents for Suu are inviting YOU to contribute to an aggregation of the people, places, events, objects, teachers, distractions, works of art, poems, jokes, memories, brilliant achievements, farcical failures and anything else that has been important to her, and from which she has so long been separated. Burma’s generals, by shutting her away in total isolation, would have us believe that she is far from us and no longer of any importance. This is a way to say, on the contrary, she is in our thoughts and in our midst.
There are several ways to send Suu message of support:
Twitter. Send a message to Twitter Suu
Facebook: Twitter Suu, (http://twitter.com/freesuukyi08)
Email: 108presentsforsuu@gmail.com
Skype: ccragg123, leave a message
Identify yourself, please, only with your First Name and Location, and your Age and Profession/Status if you wish.
In collaboration with Peter Popham of the UK newspaper, ‘The Independent’, this
is a Participatory Social Media project to elicit User Generated Content (UGC). This will be collected and published extensively in New Media both digitally and in a limited number of special print editions. One will be presented to Aung San Suu Kyi herself on the 20th anniversary of start of the Military Junta’s atrocities, 08082008.
Peter Popham
http://freeaungsansuukyi.org/FASSK
For further information:
Claudia Cragg, +44 20 8133 2188
Skype, ccragg123
Gmail, 108presentsforsuu@gmail.com,
GoogleTalk: 108presentsforsuu
Facebook, Twitter Suu
Twitter, freesuukyi08
March 31st 2008
PLEASE SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS TO SEND
MESSAGES OF SUPPORT TO SUU
One week today, Monday, April 7th is 'Twitter Suu' day. We would like you to send a message for support to Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma by one of the following means:-
a) you can 'Twitter' her
Go to Twitter (click his link), sign up, and send a message to the designated Twitter account:
freesuukyi08
b) you can email her at: 108presentsforsuu@gmail.com
c) or, you can post a much longer message with multimedia, or whatever you wish, by adding it to this wiki here
Let's create a TwitterStorm -- send a message and tell 3 of your smartest friends who will see the point and ACT.
Thank you.
March 3rd 2008
We have now launched
The TwitterSuu project.
So, what is TWITTER?? Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging
service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based
posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service, instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific.
We are using Twitter here as one of several devices to create awareness of the plight of Aung San Suu Kyi, so please Twitter Suu @freesuukyi08 (this is the standard format for showing a Twitter address, i.e. the address to send your twitter to is freesuukyi08.
Updates are displayed on our Twitter page and instantly
delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender
can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends
(delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via
the Twitter website, instant messaging,
SMS,
RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available:
short codes for the
USA,
Canada, and
India, as well as a
UK number for international use.
What to do:
Please send a few lines of support, as a Present to Suu throughTwitter freesuukyi08
a) Twitter your comment for Suu to @freesuukyi08
b) ask FIVE friends to TwitterSuu and ask each of those five to find five more
c) try, if possible, to find people in as far-flung geographic spots as possible so this spreads around the world
Please, please, please SPREAD THE WORD!!
The 108 Presents for Suu PBWiki
d) please also duplicate your personal TwitterSuu contribution by adding it to this wiki here with your name and location. You can make this as long or as short as you like, add pictures, mementoes, etc.
Thank you! And please, spread the word!!
March 5th 2008
NOW UP AND RUNNING
Facebook, Twitter Suu
COMING SOON
MySpace -- 108 Presents for Suu
Bebo -- 108 Presents for Suu
Second Life -- Presents for Suu
Aung San Suu Kyi*
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese: 
; MLCTS: aung hcan: cu. krany; IPA: [àunsʰánsṵtʃì]); born 19 June 1945 in Rangoon, is a pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, and a noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent
resistance. Aung San Suu Kyi was the third child in her family. Her
name "Aung San" derives from her father, "Kyi" from her mother and
"Suu" from her grandmother.[6] Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992 she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru peace prize by the Government of India for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship. She is currently under detention, with the Burmese junta repeatedly extending her detention. According to the results of the 1990 general election, Suu Kyi earned the right to be Prime Minister,
as leader of the winning National League for Democracy party, but her
detention by the military junta prevented her from assuming that role.
She is frequently called Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; Daw is not part of her name, but an honorific similar to madam for older, revered women, literally meaning "aunt".[7] Strictly speaking, she has only the one name, though it is acceptable to refer to her as "Ms. Suu Kyi" or Dr. Suu Kyi, since those syllables serve to distinguish her from her father, General Aung San.
[edit] Personal life
Aung San Suu Kyi was born on 19 June 1945. Her father, Aung San, negotiated Burma's independence from the United Kingdom
in 1947, and was assassinated by his rivals in the same year. She grew
up with her mother, Khin Kyi, and two brothers, Aung San Lin and Aung San Oo in Rangoon. Her favourite brother Aung San Lin drowned in a pool accident when Suu Kyi was eight.[6] Her elder brother migrated to San Diego, California, becoming a United States citizen.[6] Suu Kyi was educated in English Catholic schools for much of her childhood in Burma.
Khin Kyi (Ma Khin Kyi) gained prominence as a political figure in
the newly-formed Burmese government. Ma Khin Kyi was appointed as
Burmese ambassador to India in 1960, and Aung San Suu Kyi followed her there, graduating from Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi in 1964.[8]
She continued her education at St Hugh's College, Oxford, obtaining a B.A. degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1969 and a Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1985. She also worked for the government of the Union of Myanmar. In 1972, Aung San Suu Kyi married Dr. Michael Aris, a scholar of Tibetan culture, living abroad in Bhutan. The following year she gave birth to first son, Alexander, in London; and in 1977 she had her second son, Kim.
She is Buddhist.
[edit] Political beginnings
Aung San Suu Kyi and her father General
Aung San
Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Burma in 1988 to take care of her
ailing mother. By coincidence, in that year, the long-time leader of
the socialist ruling party, General Ne Win, stepped down, leading to mass demonstrations for democratisation on August 8, 1988 (8-8-88, a day seen as auspicious), which were violently suppressed. A new military junta took power.
Influenced by both Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence[9][10] and by more specifically Buddhist concepts[11], Aung San Suu Kyi entered politics to work for democratisation, helped found the National League for Democracy on 27 September 1988, and was put under house arrest on 20 July 1989. She was offered freedom if she would leave the country, but she refused.
One of her most famous speeches is the "Freedom From Fear" speech, which begins:
| “ |
It is not power that
corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and
fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. |
” |
[edit] Chronology
- Born June 19th 1945, Rangoon, Myanmar[12].
- 1960, Accompanies mother to Delhi on her appointment as Burmese ambassador to India and Nepal and studies politics at Delhi University.[13]
- 1964-1967, BA in philosophy, politics and economics, St. Hugh's College, Oxford University. She is elected Honorary Fellow in 1990.[14]
- 1972, Married Dr. Michael Aris, a British scholar.[15]
- 1988, Returns to Myanmar to look after sick mother. Becomes involved with politics.
- August 26th 1988, Addresses half-million mass rally in front of the
famous Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon and calls for a democratic
government.[16]
- In 1990, the military junta called a general election,
which the National League for Democracy won decisively. Being the NLD's
candidate, Aung San Suu Kyi under normal circumstances would have
assumed the office of Prime Minister.[17]
Instead, the results were nullified, and the military refused to hand
over power. This resulted in an international outcry. Aung San Suu Kyi
was placed under house arrest at her home
16°49′32″N, 96°9′1″E in Rangoon. During her arrest, she was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990, and the Nobel Peace Prize
the year after. Her sons Alexander and Kim accepted the Nobel Peace
Prize on her behalf. Aung San Suu Kyi used the Nobel Peace Prize's 1.3
million USD prize money to establish a health and education trust for the Burmese people. - The military government released Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest
in July 1995 but made it clear that if she left the country to visit
her family in the United Kingdom, it would not allow her return.
- When her husband, Michael Aris, a British citizen, was diagnosed with prostate cancer
in 1997, the Burmese government denied him an entry visa. Aung San Suu
Kyi remained in Burma, and never again saw her husband, who died in
March 1999. She remains separated from her children, who live in the
United Kingdom.[18]
- The junta continually prevented Aung San Suu Kyi from meeting with her party supporters or international visitors.
- In 1998, journalist Maurizio Giuliano,
after photographing Aung San Suu Kyi, was stopped by customs officials,
and all his films, tapes and some notes were confiscated.[19]
- In September 2000, the junta put her under house arrest again.
- On 6 May 2002, following secret confidence-building negotiations led by the United Nations,
the government released her; a government spokesman said that she was
free to move "because we are confident that we can trust each other".
Aung San Suu Kyi proclaimed "a new dawn for the country".
- However on 30 May 2003, a government-sponsored mob attacked her caravan in the northern village of Depayin, murdering and wounding many of her supporters.[20]
Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene with the help of her driver, Ko Kyaw
Soe Lin, but was arrested upon reaching Ye-U. The government imprisoned
her at Insein Prison in Yangon.
- After she underwent a hysterectomy in September 2003,[21] the government again placed her under house arrest in Yangon.
- In March 2004, Razali Ismail,
UN special envoy to Myanmar, met with Aung San Suu Kyi. Ismail resigned
from his post the following year, partly because he was denied re-entry
to Myanmar on several occasions.[22]
- On 28 May 2004,
the United Nations Working Group for Arbitrary Detention rendered an
Opinion (No. 9 of 2004) that her deprivation of liberty was arbitrary,
as being in contravention of Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, and requested that the authorities in Burma set her free, but the authorities have so far ignored this request.[23]
- On 28 November 2005,
the National League for Democracy confirmed that Suu Kyi's house arrest
would be extended for yet another year. Many Western countries, as well
as the United Nations, have expressed their disapproval of this latest extension.
- On 11 November 2006, USG Gambari, who was undertaking a mission to Myanmar for four days to encourage greater respect for human rights there, met with Suu Kyi. According to Gambari, Suu Kyi seems in good health but she wishes to meet her doctor more regularly.[28] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
has urged the Burmese government to release Aung San Suu Kyi, as it
released 2,831 prisoners, including 40 political prisoners, on 1 January 2007.[29]
- On 25 May 2007,
Myanmar extended Suu Kyi's detention for yet another year which would
keep her confined to her residence for a fifth straight year.[31]
- On 30 September 2007,
in relation to rising political unrest in Myanmar, a United Nations
emissary spent over an hour meeting with her near her guarded residence.
- On 2 October 2007 Gambari returned to talk to her again after seeing Than Shwe and other members of the senior leadership in Naypyitaw.[32] State television
broadcast Suu Kyi with Gambari, stating that they had met twice. This
was Suu Kyi's first appearance in state media in the four years since
her current detention began.[33]
- On October 24, 2007,
the anniversary of her 12th year in detention, campaigners announced
demonstrations in 12 cities to protest against Burma's continued
detention of Suu Kyi and other political prisoners. [34]
- On October 25, 2007, talks between Suu Kyi and recently appointed liaison minister Aung Kyi, a senior member of the ruling junta, were reported to be lined up for the near future[35].
- November 8, 2007 For the first time in three years Suu Kyi will meet her political allies National League for Democracy
along with a government minister on Friday. The ruling junta made the
official announcement on state TV and radio just hours after United Nation's special envoy Ibrahim Gambari
ended his second visit to Burma. The NLD confirmed that it had received
the invitation to hold talks with Ms Suu Kyi. She last met party
members in May 2004. The NLD (led by Suu Kyi) won polls in 1990 but was never allowed to take power.[36]
[edit] Periods under detention
- Arrested, July 20, 1989, Placed her under house arrest in Rangoon under martial law that allows for detention without charge or trial for three years [37]
- Released, July 10, 1995, Released from house arrest.
- Arrested, September 23rd 2000, Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest.
- Released, May 6, 2002, Freed after 19 months of house arrest.
- Arrested. May 30, 2003, Following the Depayin massacre she was held in secret detention for over 3 months before being returned to house arrest.
- May 25, 2007, house arrest extended by one year.
- October 24, 2007, reaches 12 years under house arrest, solidarity protests held at 12 cities around the world Burma Campaign UK.
[edit] 2007 anti-government protests
-
Protests led by Buddhist monks began on 19 August 2007 following steep fuel price increases, and continued each day, despite the threat of a crackdown by the military.[38]
On Saturday, 22 September 2007, although still under house arrest, Suu Kyi made a brief public appearance at the gate of her residence in Yangon to accept the blessings of Buddhist monks who were marching in support of human rights.[39]
It was reported that she had been moved the following day to Insein Prison (where she had been detained in 2003)[40] [41][42][43], but meetings with UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari near her Rangoon home on 30 September and 2 October established that she remained under house arrest[44][45].
[edit] International support
[edit] World leaders
- After her confinement was again extended, current Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
said in a statement that "the sooner restrictions on Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi and other political figures are lifted, the sooner Burma will be
able to move towards inclusive national reconciliation, and the
restoration of democracy and full respect for human rights."[47]
- On May 30, 2007, the Philippine government led members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) in calling on Myanmar's military leaders to reverse their
decision to extend the house arrest of democracy leader Aung San Suu
Kyi. In a statement, Philippine foreign affairs secretary Alberto Romulo
said "The Philippines joins the call for the release of Aung San Suu
Kyi and all political prisoners [in Myanmar]." "The Philippines deeply
regrets the Myanmar government's decision to extend her house arrest.
We urge the Myanmar government to reconsider its decision." It was the
first time that a Philippine government official has called on all
other Asian leaders to rally behind Aung San Suu Kyi.[48]
- On 13 June 2007 Members of both Houses of the Indian Parliament wrote to Aung San Suu Kyi on the occasion of her 62nd birthday. The parliamentarians led by veteran Gandhian and Rajya Sabha member Nirmala Deshpande wrote among other things: "You are the true prime minister of Myanmar."[3]
- In his book, "Courage: Eight Portraits" (Bloomsbury), British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
states: "So Suu Kyi's courage is the courage to sacrifice her own
happiness and a comfortable life so that, through her struggle, she
might win the right of an entire nation to seek happy and comfortable
lives. It is the absolute expression of selflessness. Paradoxically, in
sacrificing her own liberty, she strengthens its cry and bolsters its
claim for the people she represents."
[edit] Government officials
[edit] Nobel Peace Prize
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. The decision of the Nobel Committee mentions:[53]
| “ |
The Norwegian Nobel
Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 to Aung
San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (Burma) for her non-violent struggle for
democracy and human rights.
...Suu Kyi's struggle is one of the most extraordinary examples
of civil courage in Asia in recent decades. She has become an important
symbol in the struggle against oppression...
...In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 to Aung San Suu
Kyi, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to honour this woman for her
unflagging efforts and to show its support for the many people
throughout the world who are striving to attain democracy, human rights
and ethnic conciliation by peaceful means.
|
” |
| |
— Oslo, October 14, 1991
|
[edit] Nations
[edit] Organizations
- Freedom Now,
a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization, was retained in 2006
by a member of her family to help secure Aung San Suu Kyi's release
from house arrest. The organization successfully secured a positive
judgment from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and has been
conducting political and public relations advocacy on her behalf.
- Aung San Suu Kyi has been an honorary board member of International IDEA and ARTICLE 19 since her detention, and has received support from these organisations.
- In June of each year, the US Campaign for Burma
organizes hundreds of "Arrest Yourself" house parties around the world
in support of Aung San Suu Kyi. At these parties, the organizers keep
themselves under house arrest for 24 hours, invite their friends, and
learn more about Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi.[56]
- The Freedom Campaign, a joint effort between the Human Rights Action Center and US Campaign for Burma, looks to raise worldwide attention to the struggles of Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma.
- St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where she studied, had a Burmese theme for their annual ball in support of her in 2006.[57]
- Aung San Suu Kyi is the official patron of The Rafto Human Rights House in Bergen, Norway. She received the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize in 1990.
- She was made an honorary free person of the City of Dublin, Ireland in November 1999, although a space has been left on the roll of signatures to symbolize her continued detention.
- In November 2005 the human rights group Equality Now proposed Aung Sun Suu Kyi as a potential candidate, among other qualifying women, for the position of U.N. Secretary General.[2] In the proposed list of qualified women Suu Kyi is recognised by Equality Now as the Prime Minister-Elect of Burma.[2]
[edit] The Bommersvik Declarations
In Bommersvik, Sweden, in 1995 and 2002, two conventions of the Elected Representatives of the Union of Burma took place and the following two landmark declarations were issued:[59][60]
[edit] Bommersvik Declaration I
In 1995, during the first convention that lasted from 16-23 July, the Representatives issued the Bommersvik Declaration I:[61]
| “ |
We, the representatives of the people of Burma, elected in the 27 May 1990
general elections, meeting at the First Convention of Elected
Representatives from the liberated areas of Burma, hereby - Warmly
welcome the unconditional release of 1991 Nobel Peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on 10 July 1995;
Thank all who have worked tirelessly and consistently for the release
of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the cause of democracy in Burma; Applaud
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's determination, in spite of having spent 6 years
under house arrest, to continue to work to bring true democracy to
Burma; Welcome Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's return to politics to take up the
mantle of her father, General Aung San, in Burma's second struggle for
independence;... |
” |
| |
— The Elected Representatives of the Union of Burma
|
[edit] Bommersvik Declaration II
In 2002, during the second convention that lasted from 25 February to the 1st of March, the Representatives issued the Bommersvik Declaration II:[62]
| “ |
We, the representatives of the people of Burma, elected in the 27 May 1990
general elections presently serving as members of the National
Coalition Government of the Union of Burma and/or the Members of
Parliament Union, meeting at the Convention of Elected Representatives
held in Bommersvik for the second time, hereby reaffirm - Our Mandate,
Position, and Strategic Objectives - that we will never ignore the will
of the Burmese people expressed through the May 1990 general elections;
- that the military's refusal to honor the election results does not in
any way diminish the validity of these results..... |
” |
| |
— The Elected Representatives of the Union of Burma
|
[edit] Authored
- Letters from Burma (1998) with Fergal Keane ISBN 978-0140264036
- The Voice of Hope (1998) with Alan Clements, ISBN 978-1888363838
- Freedom from Fear and Other Writings (1995) with Vaclav Havel, Desmond M. Tutu, and Michael Aris, ISBN 978-0140253177
- Der Weg zur Freiheit (1999) with U Kyi Maung, U Tin Oo, ISBN 978-3404614356
- Letter to Daniel: Despatches from the Heart (1996) by Fergal Keane, foreword by Aung San Suu Kyi, edited by Tony Grant ISBN 978-0140262896
- Burma's Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity (1994) with Alan Clements, Leslie Kean, The Dalai Lama, Sein Win ISBN 978-0893815806
- Aung San of Burma: A Biographical Portrait by His Daughter (1991) ISBN 978-1870838801, 2nd edition 1995
- Aung San (Leaders of Asia Series) (1990) ISBN 978-9990288834
- Burma and India: Some aspects of intellectual life under colonialism (1990) ISBN 978-8170231349
- Bhutan (Let's Visit Series) (1986) ISBN 978-0222010995
- Nepal (Let's Visit Series) (1985) ISBN 978-0222009814
- Burma (Let's Visit Series) (1985) ISBN 978-0222009791
[edit] Edited
[edit] Mentioned in
- Aung San Suu Kyi (Modern Peacemakers) (2007) by Judy L. Hasday, ISBN 978-0791094358
- The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner (2002) by Barbara Victor, ISBN 978-0571211777, or 1998 hardcover: ISBN 978-0571199440
- Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi (2007) by Justin Wintle, ISBN 978-0091796815
- Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators (2006) by David Wallechinsky, ISBN 978-0060590048
- Aung San Suu Kyi (Trailblazers of the Modern World) (2004) by William Thomas, ISBN 978-0836852639
- No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs (2002) by Naomi Klein ISBN 978-0312421434
- Mental culture in Burmese crisis politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (ILCAA Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Monograph Series) (1999) by Gustaaf Houtman, ISBN 978-4872977486
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Standing Up for Democracy in Burma (Women Changing the World) (1998) by Bettina Ling ISBN 978-1558611979
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Fearless Voice of Burma (Newsmakers Biographies Series) (1997) by Whitney Stewart, ISBN 978-0822549314
- Prisoner for Peace: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy (Champions of Freedom Series) (1994) by John Parenteau, ISBN 978-1883846053
- Des femmes prix Nobel de Marie Curie à Aung San Suu Kyi, 1903-1991 (1992) by Charlotte Kerner, Nicole Casanova, Gidske Anderson, ISBN 978-2721004277
- Aung San Suu Kyi, towards a new freedom (1998) by Chin Geok Ang ISBN 978-9814024303
- Aung San Suu Kyi's struggle: Its principles and strategy (1997) by Mikio Oishi ISBN 978-9839861068
- Finding George Orwell in Burma (2004) by Emma Larkin ISBN 0143037110
[edit] Awards
[edit] Popular media
- The jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter named one of his compositions after her. The piece is best known from the 1997 Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter duet album, 1 + 1.
- She was featured prominently in the music video for Damien Rice's collaboration with Lisa Hannigan, "Unplayed Piano", which was written for Suu Kyi after a visit to her, from Rice, in July 2004.
