Aung San Suu Kyi#1990 general election and Nobel Peace Prize

Aung San Suu Kyi, like other Burmese names, includes no surname, but is only a personal name, in her case derived from three relatives: "Aung San" from her father, "Suu" from her paternal grandmother, and "Kyi" from her mother Khin Kyi.[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html Aung San Suu Kyi – Biography] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027035904/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html|date=27 October 2007}} Nobel Prize Foundation

In Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi is often referred to as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Daw, literally meaning "aunt", is not part of her name but is an honorific for any older and revered woman, akin to "Madam".{{cite web|url=http://www.myanmar.gov.mm/Perspective/persp1997/9-97/fam9-97.htm|title=Myanmar Family Roles and Social Relationships|publisher=Government of Myanmar|access-date=24 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026184413/http://www.myanmar.gov.mm/Perspective/persp1997/9-97/fam9-97.htm|archive-date=26 October 2007|url-status=dead}} She is sometimes addressed as Daw Suu or Amay Suu ("Mother Suu") by her supporters.{{cite news|url=http://www2.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=15761|title=Suu Kyi Protester Arrested|author=Min Lwin|date=28 May 2009|publisher=The Irrawaddy|access-date=7 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302205441/http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=15761|archive-date=2 March 2011|url-status=live}}[http://www.equalitynow.org/take_action/action112 The Next United Nations Secretary-General: Time for a Woman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000409/http://www.equalitynow.org/take_action/action112|date=4 March 2016}} Equality Now.org November 2005[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/MPs_to_Suu_Kyi_You_are_the_real_PM_of_Burma/rssarticleshow/2118431.cms MPs to Suu Kyi: You are the real PM of Burma] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430035952/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/MPs_to_Suu_Kyi_You_are_the_real_PM_of_Burma/rssarticleshow/2118431.cms |date=30 April 2011 }}. The Times of India 13 June 2007[http://www.dw.de/a-4557275-1 Deutsche Welle] Article: Sentence for Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi sparks outrage and cautious hope Quote: The NLD won a convincing majority in elections in 1990, the last remotely fair vote in Burma. That would have made Aung San Suu Kyi the prime minister, but the military leadership immediately nullified the result. Now her party must decide whether to take part in a poll that shows little prospect of being just

Aung San Suu Kyi was born on 19 June 1945 in Rangoon (now Yangon), British Burma. According to Peter Popham, she was born in a small village outside Rangoon called Hmway Saung.{{cite book|last=Popham|first=Peter|date=April 2013|title=The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCL1drLmsmQC&q=%22hmway%20saung%22&pg=PA163|location=New York|publisher=The Experiment, LLC|page=163|isbn=978-1-61519-081-2}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Her father, Aung San, allied with the Japanese during World War II. Aung San founded the modern Burmese army and negotiated Burma's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947; he was assassinated by his rivals in the same year. She is a niece of Thakin Than Tun who was the husband of Khin Khin Gyi, the elder sister of her mother Khin Kyi.{{cite news |title=Junta Watch: Coup Leader's Wife Draws Public Ire; Suu Kyi's New Charge and More |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/junta-watch-coup-leaders-wife-draws-public-ire-suu-kyis-new-charge-and-more.html/ |work=The Irrawaddy |date=4 December 2021}}

She grew up with her mother, Khin Kyi, and two brothers, Aung San Lin and Aung San Oo, in Rangoon. Aung San Lin died at the age of eight when he drowned in an ornamental lake on the grounds of the house. Her elder brother emigrated to San Diego, California, becoming a United States citizen. After Aung San Lin's death, the family moved to a house by Inya Lake where Aung San Suu Kyi met people of various backgrounds, political views, and religions.Stewart (1997), p. 31 She was educated in Methodist English High School (now Basic Education High School No. 1 Dagon) for much of her childhood in Burma, where she was noted as having a talent for learning languages.Stewart (1997), p. 32 She speaks four languages: Burmese, English (with a British accent), French, and Japanese.Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography, p. 142 She is a Theravada Buddhist.

Aung San Suu Kyi's mother, Khin Kyi, gained prominence as a political figure in the newly formed Burmese government. She was appointed Burmese ambassador to India and Nepal in 1960, and Aung San Suu Kyi followed her there. She studied in the Convent of Jesus and Mary School in New Delhi, and graduated from Lady Shri Ram College, a constituent college of the University of Delhi in New Delhi, with a degree in politics in 1964.[http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php/burma/about-burma/about-burma/a-biography-of-aung-san-suu-kyi A biography of Aung San Suu Kyi] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121205085614/http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php/burma/about-burma/about-burma/a-biography-of-aung-san-suu-kyi|date=5 December 2012}} Burma Campaign.co.uk Retrieved 7 May 2009{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html|title=Aung San Suu Kyi – Biography|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=4 May 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428181740/http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html|archive-date=28 April 2006|url-status=live}} Suu Kyi continued her education at St Hugh's College, Oxford, obtaining a B.A. degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1967,{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html|title=Aung San Suu Kyi – Biographical|year=1991|publisher=The Nobel Foundation|access-date=27 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325014914/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html|archive-date=25 March 2016|url-status=live}} graduating with a third-class degree{{cite news|url=http://business-standard.com/india/news/much-warmth-some-restraint-at-manmohans-meetingsuu-kyi/475788/|title=Much warmth, some restraint at Manmohan's meeting with Suu Kyi|last=Phadnis|first=Aditi|newspaper=Business Standard India|date=30 May 2012|publisher=Business Standard|access-date=27 March 2016|archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160516223941/http://business%2Dstandard.com/india/news/much%2Dwarmth%2Dsome%2Drestraint%2Dat%2Dmanmohans%2Dmeetingsuu%2Dkyi/475788/|archive-date=16 May 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|last=Popham|first=Peter|year=2012|title=Aung San Suu Kyi|url=http://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/St-Hughs-Magazine-2012.pdf|journal=St. Hughs College Magazine |access-date=27 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221014810/http://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/St-Hughs-Magazine-2012.pdf|archive-date=21 December 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Myanmar/sub5_5b/entry-3015.html|title=Aung San Suu Ky: Her Early Life, Family and Character |date=May 2014|orig-year=2008 Jeffrey Hays, last updated May 2014|publisher=Facts and Details|access-date=27 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408050859/http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Myanmar/sub5_5b/entry-3015.html |archive-date=8 April 2016|url-status=live}} that was promoted per tradition to an MA in 1968. After graduating, she lived in New York City with family friend Ma Than E, who was once a popular Burmese pop singer.{{cite news|author=Aditi Phadnis|title=Much warmth, some restraint at Manmohan's meeting with Suu Kyi|newspaper=Business Standard India|date=30 May 2012|url=http://business-standard.com/india/news/much-warmth-some-restraint-at-manmohans-meetingsuu-kyi/475788/|publisher=Business Standard|access-date=30 May 2012|archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160516223941/http://business%2Dstandard.com/india/news/much%2Dwarmth%2Dsome%2Drestraint%2Dat%2Dmanmohans%2Dmeetingsuu%2Dkyi/475788/|archive-date=16 May 2016|url-status=live |author-link=Aditi Phadnis}} She worked at the United Nations for three years, primarily on budget matters, writing daily to her future husband, Dr. Michael Aris.Staff reporter (18 June 2009) [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/18/aung-san-suu-kyi-burma-photograph Before the storm: Aung San Suu Kyi photograph peels back the years] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221063732/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/18/aung-san-suu-kyi-burma-photograph|date=21 December 2016}} The Guardian On 1 January 1972, Aung San Suu Kyi and Aris, a scholar of Tibetan culture and literature, living abroad in Bhutan, were married.{{cite web

|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html|title=Aung San Suu Kyi – Biographical|publisher=Nobel Foundation|year=1999|access-date=29 November 2014|author=Irwin Abrams

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216204240/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html|archive-date=16 December 2014|url-status=live}} The following year, she gave birth to their first son, Alexander Aris, in London; their second son, Kim Aris, was born in 1977. Between 1985 and 1987, Aung San Suu Kyi was working toward a Master of Philosophy degree in Burmese literature as a research student at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.{{cite web |url=http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies|title=The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London|publisher=Complete University Guide|access-date=28 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127072609/http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies|archive-date=27 November 2012|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.soasalumni.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=852|title=SOAS alumna Aung San Suu Kyi calls for 'Peaceful Revolution' in Burma|publisher=SOAS Alumni|access-date=28 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615070850/https://www.soasalumni.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=852|archive-date=15 June 2013|url-status=live}} She was elected as an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's in 1990. For two years, she was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS) in Shimla, India. She also worked for the government of the Union of Burma.

In 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Burma to tend for her ailing mother. Aris' visit in Christmas 1995 was the last time that he and Aung San Suu Kyi met, as she remained in Burma and the Burmese dictatorship denied him any further entry visas. Aris was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 which was later found to be terminal. Despite appeals from prominent figures and organisations, including the United States, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Pope John Paul II, the Burmese government would not grant Aris a visa, saying that they did not have the facilities to care for him, and instead urged Aung San Suu Kyi to leave the country to visit him. She was at that time temporarily free from house arrest but was unwilling to depart, fearing that she would be refused re-entry if she left, as she did not trust the military junta's assurance that she could return.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/304497.stm Suu Kyi rejects UK visit offer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305172850/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/304497.stm|date=5 March 2016}} BBC News 26 March 1999

Aris died on his 53rd birthday on 27 March 1999. Since 1989, when his wife was first placed under house arrest, he had seen her only five times, the last of which was for Christmas in 1995. She was also separated from her children, who live in the United Kingdom, until 2011.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/305487.stm|title=Obituary: A courageous and patient man|work=BBC News|date=27 March 1999|access-date=4 July 2006|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825203319/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/305487.stm |archive-date=25 August 2007|url-status=live}}

On 2 May 2008, after Cyclone Nargis hit Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi's dilapidated lakeside bungalow lost its roof and electricity, while the cyclone also left entire villages in the Irrawaddy delta submerged.{{cite news|title=Official: UN plane lands in Myanmar with aid after cyclone|url=http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_93509cdd-490f-5988-bfc8-09e33be9c784.html|access-date=1 December 2012 |agency=Associated Press|date=5 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306090937/http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_93509cdd-490f-5988-bfc8-09e33be9c784.html|archive-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=live}} Plans to renovate and repair the house were announced in August 2009.[http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/2603-aung-san-suu-kyis-home-to-be-renovated-.html Aung San Suu Kyi's home to be renovated] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531111548/http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/2603-aung-san-suu-kyis-home-to-be-renovated-.html|date=31 May 2013}} Mizzima 10 August 2009 Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest on 13 November 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www2.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=20068|title=Suu Kyi Freed at Last|author=Ba Kaung|date=13 November 2010|publisher=The Irrawaddy|access-date=14 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119175541/http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=20068|archive-date=19 November 2010|url-status=live }}

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Coincidentally, when Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Burma in 1988, the long-time military leader of Burma and head of the ruling party, General Ne Win, stepped down.{{Cite news |last=Win |first=Sein |date=24 July 1988 |title=Burmese Leader Ne Win Resigns in Surprise Move |language=en |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/07/24/burmese-leader-ne-win-resigns-in-surprise-move/1b5896ff-3997-4472-8ffd-d49753838d39/ |access-date=26 August 2023}} Mass demonstrations for democracy followed that event on 8 August 1988 (8–8–88, a day seen as auspicious), which were violently suppressed in what came to be known as the 8888 Uprising. On 24 August 1988, she made her first public appearance at the Yangon General Hospital, addressing protestors from a podium.{{ cite web |title=The day daw aung san suu kyi made first public appearance |work=The Irrawaddy |date=24 August 2020 |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/specials/on-this-day/day-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-made-first-public-appearance-myanmar.html}} On 26 August, she addressed half a million people at a mass rally in front of the Shwedagon Pagoda in the capital, calling for a democratic government. However, in September 1988, a new military junta took power.

Influenced{{cite journal |last1=Silverstein |first1=Josef |title=The Idea of Freedom in Burma and the Political Thought of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi |journal=Pacific Affairs |date=1996 |volume=69 |issue=2 |pages=211–228 |id={{ProQuest|217675265}} |doi=10.2307/2760725 |jstor=2760725 | issn=0030-851X}} by both Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence{{cite news|title=Profile: Aung San Suu Kyi|work=BBC News|date=25 May 2006|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1950505.stm|access-date=26 May 2007|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612103651/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1950505.stm|archive-date=12 June 2007}}{{cite web|title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 Presentation Speech|publisher=Nobel Foundation|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/presentation-speech.html|access-date=26 May 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519130729/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/presentation-speech.html|archive-date=19 May 2007|url-status=live}} and also by the Buddhist concepts,Houtman, Gustaaf, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bV3shLzx0B4C Mental culture in Burmese crisis politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406131642/http://books.google.com/books?id=bV3shLzx0B4C&printsec=frontcover|date=6 April 2015}} (ILCAA Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Monograph Series), 1999, {{ISBN|978-4-87297-748-6}} Retrieved 1 December 2012 See also Buddhism in Burma Aung San Suu Kyi entered politics to work for democratisation, helped found the National League for Democracy on 27 September 1988,{{cite web|url=http://www.nldburma.org/|title=National League for Democracy|publisher=National League for Democracy|access-date=26 September 2011|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618045918/http://www.nldburma.org/|archive-date=18 June 2013}} (Note: The date is in the "description" meta element of the web page and can be verified by viewing the page HTML code) but was put under house arrest on 20 July 1989. She was offered freedom if she left the country, but she refused. Despite her philosophy of non-violence, a group of ex-military commanders and senior politicians who joined NLD during the crisis believed that she was too confrontational and left NLD. However, she retained enormous popularity and support among NLD youths with whom she spent most of her time.{{cite journal|title=Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar: A Review of the Lady's Biographies|author=Kyaw Yin Hlaing|journal=Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International & Strategic Affairs|date=August 2007|volume=29|issue=2|page=365}}

During the crisis, the previous democratically elected Prime Minister of Burma, U Nu, initiated to form an interim government and invited opposition leaders to join him. Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had signaled his readiness to recognize the interim government. However, Aung San Suu Kyi categorically rejected U Nu's plan by saying "the future of the opposition would be decided by masses of the people". Ex-Brigadier General Aung Gyi, another influential politician at the time of the 8888 Uprising and the first chairman in the history of the NLD, followed the suit and rejected the plan after Aung San Suu Kyi's refusal.{{cite journal|title=Aung San Suu Kyi: Between Biographical Myth and Hard Realities|author=Susanne Prager-Nyein|journal=Journal of Contemporary Asia|date=February 2013|volume=3|issue=43

|pages=546–554|doi=10.1080/00472336.2013.771942|s2cid=154402781}} Aung Gyi later accused several NLD members of being communists and resigned from the party.

File:Edgardo Boeninger en Myanmar junto a Aung San Suu Kyi.jpg of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1995]]

In 1990, the military junta called a general election, in which the NLD received 59% of the votes, guaranteeing NLD 80% of the parliament seats.{{Cite news |date=26 May 2010 |title=Burma: 20 Years After 1990 Elections, Democracy Still Denied |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/05/26/burma-20-years-after-1990-elections-democracy-still-denied |work=Human Rights Watch}} Some claim that Aung San Suu Kyi would have assumed the office of Prime Minister.{{cite web|url=http://women.amnestyusa.org/defenders/aungsansuukyi.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821052840/http://women.amnestyusa.org/defenders/aungsansuukyi.asp |archive-date=21 August 2006|title=Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Icon of Democracy, Hope and Grace Under Pressure |publisher=Amnesty International Women's Action Council Stop Violence Against Women Campaign}} Instead, the results were nullified and the military refused to hand over power, resulting in an international outcry. Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest at her home on University Avenue ({{Coord|16|49|32|N|96|9|1|E|region:MM_type:landmark}}) in Rangoon, during which time she was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990, and the Nobel Peace Prize one year later. Her sons Alexander and Kim Aris accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Aung San Suu Kyi used the Nobel Peace Prize's US$1.3 million prize money to establish a health and education trust for the Burmese people.Miller (2001), p. 21 Around this time, Aung San Suu Kyi chose non-violence as an expedient political tactic, stating in 2007, "I do not hold to nonviolence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons."{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/27/aung-san-suu-kyi-reith |title=Is Aung San Suu Kyi rethinking her tactics? |last=Simpson |first=John |work=The Guardian |date=27 June 2011 |access-date=27 June 2011 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930114607/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/27/aung-san-suu-kyi-reith |archive-date=30 September 2013 |url-status=live }}

The decision of the Nobel Committee mentions:{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1991/press-release/ |access-date=20 February 2024 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}

{{blockquote|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, 14 October 1991}}

In 1995 Aung San Suu Kyi delivered the keynote address at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.{{cite web |publisher=Nobel Foundation |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 |access-date=10 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127043155/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html |archive-date=27 November 2012 |url-status=live }}

On 9 November 1996, the motorcade that Aung San Suu Kyi was traveling in with other National League for Democracy leaders Tin Oo and Kyi Maung, was attacked in Yangon. About 200 men swooped down on the motorcade, wielding metal chains, metal batons, stones and other weapons. The car that Aung San Suu Kyi was in had its rear window smashed, and the car with Tin Oo and Kyi Maung had its rear window and two backdoor windows shattered. It is believed the offenders were members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) who were allegedly paid Ks.500/- (@ USD $0.50) each to participate.{{Cite web |title=Aung San Suu Kyi's Prison Diaries |url=https://www.bushywood.com/ministry_of_justice/prison_diaries_stories_journals_blogs/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi_Prison_Diaries.htm |website=bushywood.com}} The NLD lodged an official complaint with the police, and according to reports the government launched an investigation, but no action was taken. (Amnesty International 120297){{cite web|url=http://aappb.org/biography_1.html|title=Aung San Suu Kyi profile|publisher=Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma)|access-date=5 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101104202315/http://www.aappb.org/biography_1.html|archive-date=4 November 2010|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news |date=13 November 2010 |title=Burma: Chronology of Aung San Suu Kyi's Detention |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/11/13/burma-chronology-aung-san-suu-kyis-detention |work=Human Rights Watch}}

Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest for a total of 15 years over a 21-year period, on numerous occasions, since she began her political career,Moe, Wait (3 August 2009). [http://www2.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=16470 Suu Kyi Questions Burma's Judiciary, Constitution] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130220121057/http://www2.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=16470 |date=20 February 2013 }}. The Irrawaddy. during which time she was prevented from meeting her party supporters and international visitors. In an interview, she said that while under house arrest she spent her time reading philosophy, politics and biographies that her husband had sent her.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZFpURJGv00 Aung San Suu Kyi interview (video)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229002758/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZFpURJGv00 |date=29 December 2013 }}. YouTube. She also passed the time playing the piano and was occasionally allowed visits from foreign diplomats as well as from her personal physician.Buncombe, Andrew (5 July 2009). [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/5000-days-in-captivity-the-worlds-most-famous-political-prisoner-and-a-dismal-landmark-1731998.html 5,000 days in captivity: The world's most famous political prisoner and a dismal landmark] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920190905/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/5000-days-in-captivity-the-worlds-most-famous-political-prisoner-and-a-dismal-landmark-1731998.html |date=20 September 2017 }}. The Independent.

Although under house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi was granted permission to leave Burma under the condition that she never return, which she refused: "As a mother, the greater sacrifice was giving up my sons, but I was always aware of the fact that others had given up more than me. I never forget that my colleagues who are in prison suffer not only physically, but mentally for their families who have no security outside—in the larger prison of Burma under authoritarian rule."{{cite book|title=The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements|url=https://archive.org/details/voiceofhope00aungrich|url-access=registration|author=Aung San Suu Kyi|year=1998|publisher=Seven Stories Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/voiceofhope00aungrich/page/132 132]|isbn=978-1888363838}}

The media were also prevented from visiting Aung San Suu Kyi, as occurred in 1998 when Italian journalist Maurizio Giuliano, after photographing her, was stopped by customs officials who then confiscated all his films, tapes and some notes.[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F98E4ECFAA2A5EF&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D Burma expels Italian reporter for "illegal reporting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007092235/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F98E4ECFAA2A5EF&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |date=7 October 2012 }}, TV Myanmar, Rangoon, 18 August 1998. In contrast, Aung San Suu Kyi did have visits from government representatives, such as during her autumn 1994 house arrest when she met the leader of Burma, Senior General Than Shwe and General Khin Nyunt on 20 September in the first meeting since she had been placed in detention. On several occasions during her house arrest, she had periods of poor health and as a result was hospitalised.{{cite news |first=Nick |last=Wadhams |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060901000.html |title=Myanmar's Suu Kyi Hospitalized |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=9 June 2006 |access-date=9 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110428063027/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060901000.html |archive-date=28 April 2011 |url-status=live }}

The Burmese government detained and kept Aung San Suu Kyi imprisoned because it viewed her as someone "likely to undermine the community peace and stability" of the country, and used both Article 10(a) and 10(b) of the 1975 State Protection Act (granting the government the power to imprison people for up to five years without a trial),[http://www2.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=5798 Opposition Condemns Extension of Suu Kyi's Detention] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707210621/http://www2.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=5798 |date=7 July 2012 }}, The Irrawaddy, 27 May 2006. Retrieved 1 April 2012. and Section 22 of the "Law to Safeguard the State Against the Dangers of Those Desiring to Cause Subversive Acts" as legal tools against her.{{cite news|title=Government took action against appeal plaintiff Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in accord with existing laws within framework of law|access-date=1 December 2012|newspaper=New Light of Myanmar (government newspaper)|date=19 September 2009|url=http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs07/NLM2009-09-19.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020074051/http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs07/NLM2009-09-19.pdf|archive-date=20 October 2012|url-status=live}} She continuously appealed her detention,[http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gjvtMXEDF6I4ntOYrw0_i5mXDjsw Suu Kyi appeals to Myanmar junta against her detention: party] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707151337/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gjvtMXEDF6I4ntOYrw0_i5mXDjsw |date=7 July 2009 }} AFP, 11 October 2008. and many nations and figures continued to call for her release and that of 2,100 other political prisoners in the country.Ehrlich, Richard S., [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/24/suppressing-burmas-beacon/print/ Suppressing Burma's 'beacon'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218154418/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/24/suppressing-burmas-beacon/print/ |date=18 February 2011 }}, The Washington Times, 24 October 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2012.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090109021829/http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1224861421.98 EU envoy urges lifting of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest], eubusiness.com, 24 October 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2012. On 12 November 2010, days after the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) won elections conducted after a gap of 20 years, the junta finally agreed to sign orders allowing Aung San Suu Kyi's release, and her house arrest term came to an end on 13 November 2010.{{cite news|author=((Reuters in Rangoon))|date=9 November 2010|title=Burmese election won by military-backed party|work=The Guardian|location=UK|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/09/burma-usdp-wins-election|url-status=live|access-date=11 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111151613/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/09/burma-usdp-wins-election|archive-date=11 November 2010}}

The United Nations (UN) has attempted to facilitate dialogue between the junta and Aung San Suu Kyi. On 6 May 2002, following secret confidence-building negotiations led by the UN, 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 in an incident similar to the 1996 attack on her, a government-sponsored mob attacked her caravan in the northern village of Depayin, murdering and wounding many of her supporters.{{cite web|url=http://www.aseanmp.org/resources/Depayin%20Massacre.pdf |title=The Depayin Massacre 2 Years On, Justice Denied |access-date=4 February 2007 |date=30 May 2005 |publisher=ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Burma Caucus |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614185341/http://www.aseanmp.org/resources/Depayin%20Massacre.pdf |archive-date=14 June 2007 }} Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene with the help of her driver, Kyaw Soe Lin, but was arrested upon reaching Ye-U. The government imprisoned her at Insein Prison in Rangoon. After she underwent a hysterectomy in September 2003, the government again placed her under house arrest in Rangoon.{{cite news | url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3119038.stm | title =Suu Kyi has 'major' operation | work =BBC News | date =19 September 2003 | access-date =4 July 2006 | location =London | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070623182456/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3119038.stm | archive-date =23 June 2007 | url-status =live }}

The results from the UN facilitation have been mixed; Razali Ismail, UN special envoy to Burma, met with Aung San Suu Kyi. Ismail resigned from his post the following year, partly because he was denied re-entry to Burma on several occasions.{{cite news | url =http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=6287 | title =Annan expresses sadness for the resignation of his envoy for Burma | publisher=Democratic Voice of Burma | date =10 January 2006 | access-date =4 July 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928172156/http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=6287 |archive-date = 28 September 2007}} Several years later in 2006, Ibrahim Gambari, UN Undersecretary-General (USG) of Department of Political Affairs, met with Aung San Suu Kyi, the first visit by a foreign official since 2004.{{cite web|date=20 May 2006 |url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=18557&Cr=Myanmar&Cr1= |title=After meeting Aung San Suu Kyi, UN envoy leaves Burma|publisher=United Nations |access-date=22 May 2006| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060528170633/http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=18557&Cr=Myanmar&Cr1=| archive-date= 28 May 2006 | url-status= live}} He also met with her later the same year.{{cite web |url=http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2006/11/11/010-emissaire-suukyi.shtml |title=Rare visite |access-date=12 January 2007 |date=8 January 2007 |publisher=CBC/Radio-Canada |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114034450/http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2006/11/11/010-emissaire-suukyi.shtml |archive-date=14 January 2009 |url-status=live }} On 2 October 2007 Gambari returned to talk to her again after seeing Than Shwe and other members of the senior leadership in Naypyidaw.{{cite news |title=UN envoy meets with Burma's top general to discuss 'current situation' |url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24129 |publisher=UN News Service |date=2 October 2007 |access-date=6 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310154920/http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24129 |archive-date=10 March 2008 |url-status=live }} State television broadcast Aung San Suu Kyi with Gambari, stating that they had met twice. This was Aung San Suu Kyi's first appearance in state media in the four years since her current detention began.{{cite news |title=Burma junta releases footage of Suu Kyi (AFP) |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/06/2052595.htm |publisher=ABC News (Australia) |date=6 October 2007 |access-date=6 October 2007 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071011095451/http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/06/2052595.htm| archive-date= 11 October 2007 | url-status= dead}}

The United Nations Working Group for Arbitrary Detention published an Opinion that Aung San Suu Kyi's deprivation of liberty was arbitrary and 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 ignored the request at that time.[http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/wgad/9-2004.html Daw Aung San Suu Kyi v. Myanmar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130429062858/http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/wgad/9-2004.html |date=29 April 2013 }}, U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2005/6/Add.1 at 47 (2004). The U.N. report said that according to the Burmese Government's reply, "Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has not been arrested, but has only been taken into protective custody, for her own safety", and while "it could have instituted legal action against her under the country's domestic legislation ... it has preferred to adopt a magnanimous attitude, and is providing her with protection in her own interests".

Such claims were rejected by Brigadier-General Khin Yi, Chief of Myanmar Police Force (MPF). On 18 January 2007, the state-run paper New Light of Myanmar accused Aung San Suu Kyi of tax evasion for spending her Nobel Prize money outside the country. The accusation followed the defeat of a US-sponsored United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Burma as a threat to international security; the resolution was defeated because of strong opposition from China, which has strong ties with the military junta (China later voted against the resolution, along with Russia and South Africa).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/world/asia/19myanmar.html |title=Burmese Daily at Odds With Democracy Advocate |author=Mydans, Seth |access-date=19 January 2007 |date=18 January 2008 |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417044209/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/world/asia/19myanmar.html |archive-date=17 April 2009 |url-status=live }}

In November 2007, it was reported that Aung San Suu Kyi would meet her political allies National League for Democracy along with a government minister. The ruling junta made the official announcement on state TV and radio just hours after UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari ended his second visit to Burma. The NLD confirmed that it had received the invitation to hold talks with Aung San Suu Kyi.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7085292.stm |title=Suu Kyi to meet party colleagues|work=BBC News |access-date=8 November 2007|date=8 November 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071109163856/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7085292.stm| archive-date= 9 November 2007 | url-status= live}} However, the process delivered few concrete results.

On 3 July 2009, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon went to Burma to pressure the junta into releasing Aung San Suu Kyi and to institute democratic reform. However, on departing from Burma, Ban Ki-moon said he was "disappointed" with the visit after junta leader Than Shwe refused permission for him to visit Aung San Suu Kyi, citing her ongoing trial. Ban said he was "deeply disappointed that they have missed a very important opportunity".{{cite web|author=John Heilprin |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/07/05/un-chief-leaves-myanmar-039disappointed039-with-junta.html |title=UN chief leaves Myanmar 'disappointed' with junta |work=The Jakarta Post |date=5 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090714054213/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/07/05/un-chief-leaves-myanmar-039disappointed039-with-junta.html |archive-date=14 July 2009 }}

• 20 July 1989: Placed under house arrest in Rangoon under martial law that allows for detention without charge or trial for three years.
• 10 July 1995: Released from house arrest.
• 23 September 2000: Placed under house arrest.
• 6 May 2002: Released after 19 months.
• 30 May 2003: Arrested following the Depayin massacre, she was held in secret detention for more than three months before being returned to house arrest.Nakashima, Ellen (13 October 2003). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A18107-2003Oct12¬Found=true Burma's Iron 'Aunty'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725121025/https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/?pagename=article&contentId=A18107-2003Oct12¬Found=true |date=25 July 2018 }}. The Washington Post.
• 25 May 2007: House arrest extended by one year despite a direct appeal from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to General Than Shwe.{{cite news |url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=99467 |work=Bangkok Post |title=Burma extends Suu Kyi detention |date=27 May 2006 |access-date=27 May 2006 |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090716053504/http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=99467 |archive-date=16 July 2009 |url-status=live }}
• 24 October 2007: Reached 12 years under house arrest, solidarity protests held at 12 cities around the world.[http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pm/weblog.php?id=P315 Campaigners mark 12 years of detention for Aung San Suu Kyi] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311121321/http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pm/weblog.php?id=P315 |date=11 March 2008 }}, Burma Campaign UK, 24 October 2007
• 27 May 2008: House arrest extended for another year, which is illegal under both international law and Burma's own law.[http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/2009515144939393754.html UN: Suu Kyi detention 'illegal'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217000019/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/2009515144939393754.html |date=17 December 2013 }}. Al Jazeera. 16 May 2009
• 11 August 2009: House arrest extended for 18 more months because of "violation" arising from the May 2009 trespass incident.
• 13 November 2010: Released from house arrest.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11749661 |title=Burma releases pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi |date=13 November 2010 |work=BBC News |access-date=14 November 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101114044557/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11749661| archive-date= 14 November 2010 | url-status= live}}

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Protests led by Buddhist monks during Saffron Revolution began on 19 August 2007 following steep fuel price increases, and continued each day, despite the threat of a crackdown by the military.{{cite news |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/monks-put-myanmar-junta-in-tight-spot-1.257239 |title=Monks put Myanmar junta in tight spot |author= |date=21 September 2007 |agency=Associated Press |access-date=14 April 2018 |quote=Government opponents began demonstrating over the price hikes Aug. 19, but the protests were quickly contained by the junta with waves of arrests and beatings. With activists in jail or hiding, the leadership role fell to the monks. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415124806/https://www.ctvnews.ca/monks-put-myanmar-junta-in-tight-spot-1.257239 |archive-date=15 April 2018 |url-status=live }}

On 22 September 2007, although still under house arrest, Aung San 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.{{cite news| url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2007/09/22/democracy-icon-aung-san-suu-kyi-greets-myanmar-monks| title=Democracy Icon Aung San Suu Kyi Greets Myanmar Monks| author=| date=22 September 2007| agency=Agence France-Presse| access-date=14 April 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415190537/https://www.commondreams.org/news/2007/09/22/democracy-icon-aung-san-suu-kyi-greets-myanmar-monks| archive-date=15 April 2018| url-status=live}} It was reported that she had been moved the following day to Insein Prison (where she had been detained in 2003),[https://groups.yahoo.com/group/golden_eagles/message/3522 Suu Kyi moved to Insein prison]{{dead link|date=December 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}. Reuters. 25 September 2007[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3006922.stm Inside Burma's Insein jail] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015150723/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3006922.stm |date=15 October 2007 }}. BBC News. 14 May 2009[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/security-tight-amid-speculation-suu-kyi-jailed/story-e6frg6t6-1111114520143 Security tight amid speculation Suu Kyi jailed] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430224812/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/security-tight-amid-speculation-suu-kyi-jailed/story-e6frg6t6-1111114520143 |date=30 April 2013 }}. The Australian. 28 September 2007[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1666576,00.html Burmese Junta silences the monks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013022850/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1666576,00.html |date=13 October 2007 }}. Time. 28 September 2007 but meetings with UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari near her Rangoon home on 30 September and 2 October established that she remained under house arrest.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7020465.stm UN envoy sees top Burma dissident] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409043753/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7020465.stm |date=9 April 2012 }}, BBC News, 30 September 2007[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7023344.stm UN envoy holds key Burmese talks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101222638/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7023344.stm |date=1 January 2013 }}. BBC News. 2 October 2007

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File:Jim Webb with Aung San Suu Kyi.jpg visiting Aung San Suu Kyi in 2009. Webb negotiated the release of John Yettaw, the man who trespassed in Aung San Suu Kyi's home.]]

On 3 May 2009, an American man, identified as John Yettaw, swam across Inya Lake to her house uninvited and was arrested when he made his return trip three days later.McDonald, Mark (7 May 2009). [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/world/asia/08myanmar.html U.S. Man Held After Swim to Burmese Nobel Peace Laureate's Home] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802172623/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/world/asia/08myanmar.html |date=2 August 2017 }}. The New York Times. He had attempted to make a similar trip two years earlier, but for unknown reasons was turned away.James, Randy (20 May 2009). [http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1899769,00.html John Yettaw: Suu Kyi's Unwelcome Visitor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523130601/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1899769,00.html |date=23 May 2009 }}. Time. He later claimed at trial that he was motivated by a divine vision requiring him to notify her of an impending terrorist assassination attempt. The Times, 28 May 2009, Richard Lloyd Parr, "God asked me to warn her, swimmer John Yettaw tells Suu Kyi trial" On 13 May, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested for violating the terms of her house arrest because the swimmer, who pleaded exhaustion, was allowed to stay in her house for two days before he attempted the swim back. Aung San Suu Kyi was later taken to Insein Prison, where she could have faced up to five years' confinement for the intrusion.Kennedy, Maev (14 May 2009). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/14/suu-kyi-lake-swim-yettaw Lake swimmer could cost Suu Kyi her freedom] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305004405/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/14/suu-kyi-lake-swim-yettaw |date=5 March 2017 }}. The Guardian. The trial of Aung San Suu Kyi and her two maids began on 18 May and a small number of protesters gathered outside.[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8e95cfc2-440c-11de-a9be-00144feabdc0.html Burma opposition leader on trial] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703205908/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8e95cfc2-440c-11de-a9be-00144feabdc0.html |date=3 July 2009 }}, Financial Times, 19 May 2009[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8054643.stm Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi on trial] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907022615/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8054643.stm |date=7 September 2012 }}, BBC News, 18 May 2009 Diplomats and journalists were barred from attending the trial; however, on one occasion, several diplomats from Russia, Thailand and Singapore and journalists were allowed to meet Aung San Suu Kyi.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8058804.stm 'composed' at Burma trial] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911105939/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8058804.stm |date=11 September 2013 }}, BBC News, 20 May 2009 The prosecution had originally planned to call 22 witnesses.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6312579.ece Lawyers for Aung San Suu Kyi protest innocence as trial begins] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521131958/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6312579.ece |date=21 May 2009 }}, The Times, 18 May 2009 It also accused John Yettaw of embarrassing the country.[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124297046869446591 Myanmar Court Charges Suu Kyi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802214418/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124297046869446591 |date=2 August 2017 }}, The Wall Street Journal, 22 May 2009 During the ongoing defence case, Aung San Suu Kyi said she was innocent. The defence was allowed to call only one witness (out of four), while the prosecution was permitted to call 14 witnesses. The court rejected two character witnesses, NLD members Tin Oo and Win Tin, and permitted the defence to call only a legal expert.{{cite web|url=http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=15892 |title=Court Rejects Two Suu Kyi Defense Witnesses |publisher=Irrawaddy.org |date=9 June 2009 |access-date=10 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810221511/http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=15892 |archive-date=10 August 2009 }} According to one unconfirmed report, the junta was planning to, once again, place her in detention, this time in a military base outside the city.{{cite web |url=http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15461 |title=Myanmar Aung San Suu Kuy to be put under detention – Asia News |publisher=Asianews.it |date=14 February 2006 |access-date=10 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630220716/http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15461 |archive-date=30 June 2009 |url-status=live }} In a separate trial, Yettaw said he swam to Aung San Suu Kyi's house to warn her that her life was "in danger".[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8069397.stm Suu Kyi's witnesses 'rejected'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324054353/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8069397.stm |date=24 March 2012 }}, BBC News, 28 May 2009 The national police chief later confirmed that Yettaw was the "main culprit" in the case filed against Aung San Suu Kyi.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090703073909/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gs16E0Y8T8w9Edy1yiDa2nXqxwkwD991MGGG0 Myanmar says American main culprit in Suu Kyi case]. AP. 25 June 2009 According to aides, Aung San Suu Kyi spent her 64th birthday in jail sharing biryani rice and chocolate cake with her guards.[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/19/burma-aung-san-suu-kyi-birthday Aung San Suu Kyi celebrates 64th birthday with jail guards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305003229/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/19/burma-aung-san-suu-kyi-birthday |date=5 March 2017 }}. The Guardian. 19 June 2009

Her arrest and subsequent trial received worldwide condemnation by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Security Council,[http://www.theage.com.au/world/un-calls-for-release-of-suu-kyi-20090523-bixx.html UN calls for release of Suu Kyi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527081238/http://www.theage.com.au/world/un-calls-for-release-of-suu-kyi-20090523-bixx.html |date=27 May 2009 }}, The Age, 24 May 2009 Western governments,[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8050545.stm Western outcry over Suu Kyi case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325102735/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8050545.stm |date=25 March 2012 }}, BBC News, 18 May 2009 South Africa,[http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=090522090712.6nk01uii.php SAfrica urges immediate Aung San Suu Kyi release] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001035621/http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=090522090712.6nk01uii.php |date=1 October 2011 }}, AFP at IC Publications, 22 May 2009 Japan[http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/onairhighlights/asian-leaders-call-for-release-of-aung-san-suu-kyi Asian leaders call for release of Aung San Suu Kyi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522025537/http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/onairhighlights/asian-leaders-call-for-release-of-aung-san-suu-kyi |date=22 May 2013 }}, Radio Australia, 15 May 2009 and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, of which Burma is a member.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8057865.stm Asian leaders condemn Burma trial] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802173123/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8057865.stm |date=2 August 2017 }}, BBC News, 19 May 2009 The Burmese government strongly condemned the statement, as it created an "unsound tradition"[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/24/content_11428592.htm Myanmar protests ASEAN alternate chairman statement on Aung San Suu Kyi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528094537/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/24/content_11428592.htm |date=28 May 2009 }}, Xinhua News Agency, 24 May 2009 and criticised Thailand for meddling in its internal affairs.[http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/144268/burma-lashes-out-at-thailand-over-suu-kyi Burma lashes out at Thailand over Suu Kyi], Bangkok Post, 25 May 2009 The Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win was quoted in the state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar as saying that the incident "was trumped up to intensify international pressure on Burma by internal and external anti-government elements who do not wish to see the positive changes in those countries' policies toward Burma". Ban responded to an international campaign[http://www.fbppn.net/ Free Burma's Political Prisoners Now!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707140704/http://www.fbppn.net/ |date=7 July 2009 }} Campaign. by flying to Burma to negotiate, but Than Shwe rejected all of his requests.Horn, Robert (5 July 2009). [http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1908720,00.html Ban Ki-Moon Leaves Burma Disappointed] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706090031/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1908720,00.html |date=6 July 2009 }}. Time.

On 11 August 2009, the trial concluded with Aung San Suu Kyi being sentenced to imprisonment for three years with hard labour. This sentence was commuted by the military rulers to further house arrest of 18 months.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8194596.stm Burma court finds Suu Kyi guilty]. BBC News. 11 August 2009. On 14 August, US Senator Jim Webb visited Burma, visiting with junta leader General Than Shwe and later with Aung San Suu Kyi. During the visit, Webb negotiated Yettaw's release and deportation from Burma.{{cite news|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/08/15/senator-wins-release-of-us-prisoner-in-myanmar/|title=Senator wins release of US prisoner in Myanmar|author=|date=15 August 2009|agency=Associated Press|access-date=14 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415125039/https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/08/15/senator-wins-release-of-us-prisoner-in-myanmar/|archive-date=15 April 2018|url-status=live}} Following the verdict of the trial, lawyers of Aung San Suu Kyi said they would appeal against the 18-month sentence.McCurry, Justin (12 August 2009). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/12/aung-san-suu-kyi-lawyers Lawyers to appeal against Aung San Suu Kyi sentence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305002955/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/12/aung-san-suu-kyi-lawyers |date=5 March 2017 }}. The Guardian. On 18 August, United States President Barack Obama asked the country's military leadership to set free all political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi.[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Obama-appeals-to-Myanmar-junta-to-release-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi/articleshow/4905706.cms Obama appeals to Myanmar junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi] . The Times of India. 18 August 2009. In her appeal, Aung San Suu Kyi had argued that the conviction was unwarranted. However, her appeal against the August sentence was rejected by a Burmese court on 2 October 2009. Although the court accepted the argument that the 1974 constitution, under which she had been charged, was null and void, it also said the provisions of the 1975 security law, under which she has been kept under house arrest, remained in force. The verdict effectively meant that she would be unable to participate in the elections scheduled to take place in 2010—the first in Burma in two decades. Her lawyer stated that her legal team would pursue a new appeal within 60 days.{{cite news|agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/02/aung-san-suu-kyi-appeal |title=Burmese court rejects appeal against Aung San Suu Kyi house arrest |work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=2 October 2009 |access-date=30 September 2010 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101013225949/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/02/aung-san-suu-kyi-appeal| archive-date= 13 October 2010 | url-status= live}}

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Aung San Suu Kyi has received vocal support from Western nations in Europe,[http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=126&set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20071005104027466C201492 Myanmar offer is a 'sop' to the West]. IOL. 7 October 2007 Australia and North{{Cite news |date=18 December 2007 |title=US House honours Burma's Suu Kyi |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7149277.stm |access-date=20 February 2024 |language=en-GB}} and South America, as well as India, Israel,{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2009/Press+releases/Israel_calls_Myanmar_government_release_Suu_Kyi|title=Israel calls on Myanmar government to release Suu Kyi|publisher=Mfa.gov.il|access-date=8 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220145818/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2009/Press+releases/Israel_calls_Myanmar_government_release_Suu_Kyi|archive-date=20 December 2016|url-status=live}} Japan{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3009014.stm |title=Japan calls for Suu Kyi release|access-date=28 December 2010|work=BBC News |date=24 June 2003| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20040606000306/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3009014.stm| archive-date=6 June 2004| url-status= live}} the Philippines and South Korea.{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011144042/http://mwcnews.net/content/view/14517%26Itemid%3D1 |archive-date=11 October 2007 |url=http://mwcnews.net/content/view/14517&Itemid=1 |title=Leaders demand Suu Kyi's release |date=15 May 2007 |url-status=dead }} In December 2007, the US House of Representatives voted unanimously 400–0 to award Aung San Suu Kyi the Congressional Gold Medal; the Senate concurred on 25 April 2008.Schor, Elana (25 April 2008). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/25/usa.burma Burmese detainee receives US honour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305002351/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/25/usa.burma |date=5 March 2017 }}. The Guardian. On 6 May 2008, President George W. Bush signed legislation awarding Aung San Suu Kyi the Congressional Gold Medal.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7385662.stm Burma's cyclone death toll soars] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080508131207/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7385662.stm |date=8 May 2008 }}. BBC News. 6 May 2008. She is the first recipient in American history to receive the prize while imprisoned. More recently, there has been growing criticism of her detention by Burma's neighbours in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), particularly from Indonesia,[http://www.mizzima.com/news/regional/2272-us-indonesia-call-for-suu-kyis-release.html U.S., Indonesia call for Suu Kyi's release] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090820090752/http://www.mizzima.com/news/regional/2272-us-indonesia-call-for-suu-kyis-release.html |date=20 August 2009 }}. Mizzima. 9 June 2009 Thailand,[http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/144268/burma-lashes-out-at-thailand-over-suu-kyi Burma lashes out at Thailand over Suu Kyi]. Bangkok Post. 25 May 2009 the PhilippinesPhilippine Daily Inquirer. 27 January 2008.[http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/05/30/10128726.html Myanmar urged to release peace activist Suu Kyi] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929134606/http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/05/30/10128726.html |date=29 September 2007 }}. Gulf News. 30 May 2007. and Singapore.[http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/350363/1/.html S'pore disappointed with extension of Aung San Suu Kyi's detention] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630220708/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/350363/1/.html |date=30 June 2009 }}. Channel NewsAsia. 27 May 2009 At one point Malaysia warned Burma that it faced expulsion from ASEAN as a result of the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3081557.stm Burma 'faces ASEAN expulsion'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040626105204/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3081557.stm |date=26 June 2004 }}. BBC News. 20 July 2003 Other nations including South Africa,[http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-05-22-sa-calls-for-immediate-release-of-aung-san-suu-kyi SA calls for immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523104014/http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-05-22-sa-calls-for-immediate-release-of-aung-san-suu-kyi |date=23 May 2009 }}. Mail & Guardian. 22 May 2009 Bangladesh[http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/06/19/d6061901128.htm 432 eminent citizens call for Suu Kyi's freedom] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630212749/http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/06/19/d6061901128.htm |date=30 June 2009 }}. Daily Star. 19 June 2006 and the Maldives{{cite web|url=http://www.maldiveschronicle.com/president-nasheed-calls-immediate-release/ |title=President Nasheed calls for immediate release of Aung San Suu Ky |publisher=Maldiveschronicle.com |date=12 February 2009 |access-date=10 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630111657/http://www.maldiveschronicle.com/president-nasheed-calls-immediate-release/ |archive-date=30 June 2009 }} also called for her release. The United Nations has urged the country to move towards inclusive national reconciliation, the restoration of democracy, and full respect for human rights.[http://www.narinjara.com/details.asp?id=1282 UN Secretary Repeats Call for Release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504231023/http://www.narinjara.com/details.asp?id=1282 |date=4 May 2012 }} 27 May 2007. In December 2008, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning the human rights situation in Burma and calling for Aung San Suu Kyi's release—80 countries voting for the resolution, 25 against and 45 abstentions.[http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2008/12/26/2003432089 UN General Assembly condemns Myanmar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430013412/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2008/12/26/2003432089 |date=30 April 2011 }}. Taipei Times. 26 December 2008 Other nations, such as China and Russia, are less critical of the regime and prefer to cooperate only on economic matters.[http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\story_25-3-2009_pg20_5 Myanmar breaks own law holding Suu Kyi: UN panel] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103075919/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009 |date=3 November 2011 }}. Daily Times of Pakistan. 25 March 2009 Indonesia has urged China to push Burma for reforms.[http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/06/13/ri-woos-india-china-over-suu-kyi.html RI woos India, China over Suu Kyi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617085139/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/06/13/ri-woos-india-china-over-suu-kyi.html |date=17 June 2009 }}. Jakarta Post. 13 June 2009 However, Samak Sundaravej, former Prime Minister of Thailand, criticised the amount of support for Aung San Suu Kyi, saying that "Europe uses Aung San Suu Kyi as a tool. If it's not related to Aung San Suu Kyi, you can have deeper discussions with Myanmar."[http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20080825/ACQDJON200808250616DOWJONESDJONLINE000120.htm&&mypage=newsheadlines&title=Thai%20PM%20Says%20West%20Uses%20Myanmar Thai PM says West uses Myanmar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816070530/http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20080825%2FACQDJON200808250616DOWJONESDJONLINE000120.htm&&mypage=newsheadlines&title=Thai%20PM%20Says%20West%20Uses%20Myanmar |date=16 August 2013 }}. NASDAQ. 25 August 2008

Vietnam, however, did not support calls by other ASEAN member states for Myanmar to free Aung San Suu Kyi, state media reported Friday, 14 August 2009.{{cite web |author=dT |url=http://en.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Vietnam-supports-Myanmars-efforts-for-reconciliation/20098/1660.vnplus |title=Vietnam supports Myanmar's efforts for reconciliation |publisher=En.vietnamplus.vn |date=14 August 2009 |access-date=30 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110428062456/http://en.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Vietnam-supports-Myanmars-efforts-for-reconciliation/20098/1660.vnplus |archive-date=28 April 2011 |url-status=dead }} The state-run Việt Nam News said Vietnam had no criticism of Myanmar's decision 11 August 2009 to place Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for the next 18 months, effectively barring her from elections scheduled for 2010. "It is our view that the Aung San Suu Kyi trial is an internal affair of Myanmar", Vietnamese government spokesman Le Dung stated on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In contrast with other ASEAN member states, Dung said Vietnam has always supported Myanmar and hopes it will continue to implement the "roadmap to democracy" outlined by its government.{{cite web |url=http://www.abitsu.org/?p=5390 |title=Vietnam: Suu Kyi verdict 'internal' matter for Myanmar |publisher=Abitsu.org |date=13 August 2009 |access-date=30 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430054520/http://www.abitsu.org/?p=5390 |archive-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead }}

Nobel Peace Prize winners (Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Shirin Ebadi, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Mairead Corrigan, Rigoberta Menchú, Prof. Elie Wiesel, US President Barack Obama, Betty Williams, Jody Williams and former US President Jimmy Carter) called for the rulers of Burma to release Aung San Suu Kyi to "create the necessary conditions for a genuine dialogue with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all concerned parties and ethnic groups to achieve an inclusive national reconciliation with the direct support of the United Nations". Some of the money she received as part of the award helped fund higher education grants to Burmese students through the London-based charity Prospect Burma.{{cite web|url=http://www.prospectburma.org/index.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813045203/http://www.prospectburma.org/index.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 August 2006 |title=Home |publisher=Prospect Burma |access-date=10 June 2009 }}{{cite web |title=PB FAQ |url=https://prospectburma.org/popup/pb-faq/ |website=Prospect Burma |access-date=1 December 2021 |archive-date=1 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201144248/https://prospectburma.org/popup/pb-faq/ |url-status=dead }}

It was announced prior to the 2010 Burmese general election that Aung San Suu Kyi may be released "so she can organize her party",{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/09/aung-san-suu-kyi-release | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Burma claims it will release Aung San Suu Kyi | first=Mark | last=Tran | date=9 November 2009 | access-date=25 April 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908074459/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/09/aung-san-suu-kyi-release | archive-date=8 September 2013 | url-status=live }} However, Aung San Suu Kyi was not allowed to run.{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/6931974/Burma-announces-elections--but-not-for-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi.html | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | title=Burma announces elections ? but not for Aung San Suu Kyi | date=4 January 2010 | access-date=25 April 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109130810/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/6931974/Burma-announces-elections--but-not-for-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi.html | archive-date=9 January 2010 | url-status=dead }} On 1 October 2010 the government announced that she would be released on 13 November 2010.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/10/01/myanmar.suu.kyi/index.html|title=Lawyers skeptical about Myanmar releasing Suu Kyi|author=|date=1 October 2010|publisher=CNN|access-date=14 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415125012/http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/10/01/myanmar.suu.kyi/index.html|archive-date=15 April 2018|url-status=live}}

US President Barack Obama personally advocated the release of all political prisoners, especially Aung San Suu Kyi, during the US-ASEAN Summit of 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_452398.html |title=Obama to appeal on Suu Kyi |work=The Straits Times |location=Singapore |date=10 November 2009 |access-date=30 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205211143/http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_452398.html |archive-date=5 February 2010 |url-status=live }}

The US Government hoped that successful general elections would be an optimistic indicator of the Burmese government's sincerity towards eventual democracy.{{cite news|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/KI30Ae01.html |title=US takes a radical turn on Myanmar |work=Asia Times |date=30 September 2009 |access-date=30 September 2010| archive-url= http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091007162355/http%3A//www%2Eatimes%2Ecom/atimes/Southeast_Asia/KI30Ae01%2Ehtml| archive-date= 7 October 2009 | url-status= unfit| last=McCartan |first=Brian}} The Hatoyama government which spent 2.82 billion yen in 2008, has promised more Japanese foreign aid to encourage Burma to release Aung San Suu Kyi in time for the elections; and to continue moving towards democracy and the rule of law.{{cite web|url=http://www.mizzima.com/news/regional/3025-japan-exhorts-burma-to-free-aung-san-suu-kyi-before-2010-poll-.html |title=Ceremonial transformation of NDAK to BGF |publisher=Mizzima.com |date=10 November 2009 |access-date=30 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814173537/http://www.mizzima.com/news/regional/3025-japan-exhorts-burma-to-free-aung-san-suu-kyi-before-2010-poll-.html |archive-date=14 August 2010 }}

In a personal letter to Aung San Suu Kyi, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown cautioned the Burmese government of the potential consequences of rigging elections as "condemning Burma to more years of diplomatic isolation and economic stagnation".{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8434326.stm | work=BBC News | title=Brown pledges support to Suu Kyi | date=30 December 2009 | access-date=25 April 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115195454/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8434326.stm | archive-date=15 January 2010 | url-status=live }}

Aung San Suu Kyi met with many heads of state and opened a dialog with the Minister of Labor Aung Kyi (not to be confused with Aung San Suu Kyi).Dialogs with government officials and Foreign Diplomats She was allowed to meet with senior members of her NLD party at the State House, however these meetings took place under close supervision.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8415384.stm |title=Join her! |work=BBC News |date=16 December 2009 |access-date=30 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202020403/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8415384.stm |archive-date=2 December 2010 |url-status=live }}

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On the evening of 13 November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nguoi-viet.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=123051&z=5|title=Aung San Suu Kyi được thả sau khi hết hạn quản thúc tại gia}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} This was the date her detention had been set to expire according to a court ruling in August 2009{{cite web|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/11/20101113105340355661.html |title=Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi released – Asia-Pacific |publisher=Al Jazeera |date=13 November 2010 |access-date=13 November 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101114044729/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/11/20101113105340355661.html| archive-date= 14 November 2010 | url-status= live}} and came six days after a widely criticised general election. She appeared in front of a crowd of her supporters, who rushed to her house in Rangoon when nearby barricades were removed by the security forces. Aung San Suu Kyi had been detained for 15 of the past 21 years.{{cite web|url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20101113/twl-aung-san-suu-kyi-freed-from-house-ar-3fd0ae9.html |title=Aung San Suu Kyi Freed From House Arrest |publisher=Sky News |access-date=13 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117151137/http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20101113/twl-aung-san-suu-kyi-freed-from-house-ar-3fd0ae9.html |archive-date=17 November 2010 }} The government newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported the release positively,{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/world/asia/15myanmar.html | work=The New York Times | title=Freed Myanmar Dissident Urges Reconciliation and Change | date=14 November 2010 | access-date=5 February 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724043745/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/world/asia/15myanmar.html | archive-date=24 July 2016 | url-status=live }} saying she had been granted a pardon after serving her sentence "in good conduct".{{cite web|url=http://www.myanmar.com/newspaper/nlm/index.html |title=New Light of Myanmar|publisher=Myanmar.com |date=7 November 2010 |access-date=15 November 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101113142323/http://www.myanmar.com/newspaper/nlm/index.html| archive-date= 13 November 2010 | url-status= live}} The New York Times suggested that the military government may have released Aung San Suu Kyi because it felt it was in a confident position to control her supporters after the election.

Her son Kim Aris was granted a visa in November 2010 to see his mother shortly after her release, for the first time in 10 years.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/suu-kyi-and-son-reunited-after-10year-separation-2142108.html|title=Suu Kyi and son reunited after 10-year separation|last=Kennedy|first=Phoebe|date=24 November 2010|work=The Independent|access-date=13 July 2011|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125113753/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/suu-kyi-and-son-reunited-after-10year-separation-2142108.html|archive-date=25 January 2012|url-status=live}} He visited again on 5 July 2011, to accompany her on a trip to Bagan, her first trip outside Yangon since 2003.{{cite news|url=http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21604|title=Suu Kyi to Visit Pagan Next Week|last=Moe|first=Wai|date=30 June 2011|work=The Irrawaddy|access-date=13 July 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110713202025/http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21604| archive-date= 13 July 2011 | url-status= live}} Her son visited again on 8 August 2011, to accompany her on a trip to Pegu, her second trip.{{cite news|url=http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21853 |title=Suu Kyi to Visit Pegu Next Week |last=Moe |first=Wai |date=8 August 2011 |work=The Irrawaddy |access-date=8 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809002908/http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21853 |archive-date=9 August 2011 }}

Discussions were held between Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese government during 2011, which led to a number of official gestures to meet her demands. In October, around a tenth of Burma's political prisoners were freed in an amnesty and trade unions were legalised.{{cite news|title=Burma frees dozens of political prisoners|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15269259|access-date=19 November 2011|work=BBC News|date=12 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118214652/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15269259|archive-date=18 November 2011|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Burma law to allow labour unions and strikes|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15303968|access-date=19 November 2011|work=BBC News|date=14 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118122129/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15303968|archive-date=18 November 2011|url-status=live}}

In November 2011, following a meeting of its leaders, the NLD announced its intention to re-register as a political party to contend 48 by-elections necessitated by the promotion of parliamentarians to ministerial rank.{{cite news|title=Suu Kyi's NLD democracy party to rejoin Burma politics|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15787605|access-date=19 November 2011|work=BBC News|date=18 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111119002541/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15787605|archive-date=19 November 2011|url-status=live}} Following the decision, Aung San Suu Kyi held a telephone conference with US President Barack Obama, in which it was agreed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would make a visit to Burma, a move received with caution by Burma's ally China.{{cite news|title=U.S. sees Burma reforms as strategic opening to support democracy|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-sees-burma-reforms-as-strategic-opening-to-support-democracy/2011/11/18/gIQA22gwZN_story_1.html|access-date=19 November 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=19 November 2011|first=Liz|last=Sly|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728020152/http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-sees-burma-reforms-as-strategic-opening-to-support-democracy/2011/11/18/gIQA22gwZN_story_1.html|archive-date=28 July 2013|url-status=live}} On 1 December 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi met with Hillary Clinton at the residence of the top-ranking US diplomat in Yangon.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/world/asia/us-will-relax-curbs-on-aid-to-myanmar.html | work=The New York Times | title=[Hillary] Clinton Says U.S. Will Relax Some Curbs on Aid to Myanmar | date=1 December 2011 | access-date=5 February 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111201172242/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/world/asia/us-will-relax-curbs-on-aid-to-myanmar.html | archive-date=1 December 2011 | url-status=live }}

On 21 December 2011, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra met Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, marking Aung San Suu Kyi's "first-ever meeting with the leader of a foreign country".{{cite news|title=PM Yingluck backs Suu Kyi in landmark Myanmar talks|url=http://www.manager.co.th/Home/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9540000162276|newspaper=WBDJ7|date=21 December 2011|access-date=24 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723200819/http://www.manager.co.th/Home/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9540000162276|archive-date=23 July 2012|url-status=live}}

On 5 January 2012, British Foreign Minister William Hague met Aung San Suu Kyi and his Burmese counterpart. This represented a significant visit for Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi studied in the UK and maintains many ties there, whilst Britain is Burma's largest bilateral donor.

During Aung San Suu Kyi's visit to Europe, she visited the Swiss parliament, collected her 1991 Nobel Prize in Oslo and her honorary degree from the University of Oxford.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18454243 | title=Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Swiss parliament | date=15 June 2012 | work=BBC News | access-date=21 June 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113032201/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18454243 | archive-date=13 November 2018 | url-status=live }}{{cite web|last=Sharpe|first=Penny|title=Daw Aung San Suu Kyi|url=http://www.pennysharpe.com/hansard/18/06/2009/daw_aung_san_suu_kyi|publisher=Penny Sharpe MLC|quote=In 1990, Aung San Suu Kyi stood as the National League for Democracy's candidate for Prime Minister in the Burmese general election. The NLD won in a landslide but the military junta refused to hand over power.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330082205/http://www.pennysharpe.com/hansard/18/06/2009/daw_aung_san_suu_kyi|archive-date=30 March 2010}}[http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/thailand/090520/aung-san-suu-kyi-imprisonment twist in Aung San Suu Kyi's fate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625102340/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/thailand/090520/aung-san-suu-kyi-imprisonment |date=25 June 2009 }} Article: How a Missouri Mormon may have thwarted democracy in Myanmar. By Patrick Winn — GlobalPost Quote: "Suu Kyi has mostly lived under house arrest since 1990 when the country's military junta refused her election to the prime minister's seat. The Nobel Peace Laureate remains backed by a pro-democracy movement-in-exile, many of them also voted into a Myanmar parliament that never was." Published: 21 May 2009 00:48 ETBANGKOK, Thailand

In December 2011, there was speculation that Aung San Suu Kyi would run in the 2012 national by-elections to fill vacant seats.{{cite news|url=http://www.mmtimes.com/2011/news/605/news3160510.html |title=Daw Aung San Suu Kyi eyes Kawhmu seat |author=Kyaw Hsu Mon |date=12 December 2011 |work=The Myanmar Times |access-date=19 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617095643/http://www.mmtimes.com/2011/news/605/news3160510.html |archive-date=17 June 2013 }} On 18 January 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi formally registered to contest a Pyithu Hluttaw (lower house) seat in the Kawhmu Township constituency in special parliamentary elections to be held on 1 April 2012.{{cite news|url=http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22880 |title=Suu Kyi Registers for By-Election |author=Aye Aye Win |date=19 January 2012 |work=The Irrawaddy |access-date=19 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119153239/http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22880 |archive-date=19 January 2012 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16606608|title=Aung San Suu Kyi registers for Burma election run|date=18 January 2012|work=BBC News|access-date=19 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118174259/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16606608|archive-date=18 January 2012|url-status=live}} The seat was previously held by Soe Tint, who vacated it after being appointed Construction Deputy Minister, in the 2010 election.{{cite web|url=http://www.altsean.org/Research/Parliament%20Watch/By-elections.php#Kawmoo |title=By-elections Special |work=Alternative Asean Network on Burma |access-date=7 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316061347/http://www.altsean.org/Research/Parliament%20Watch/By-elections.php |archive-date=16 March 2012 }} She ran against Union Solidarity and Development Party candidate Soe Min, a retired army physician and native of Twante Township.{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/myanmar-old-soldier-fights-losing-war-against-suu-024936554.html |title=In Myanmar, old soldier fights losing war against Suu Kyi |last=Marshall |first=Andrew |date=24 March 2012 |agency=Reuters |access-date=26 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328095551/http://news.yahoo.com/myanmar-old-soldier-fights-losing-war-against-suu-024936554.html |archive-date=28 March 2012 }}

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On 3 March 2012, at a large campaign rally in Mandalay, Aung San Suu Kyi unexpectedly left after 15 minutes, because of exhaustion and airsickness.{{cite news|url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/malaysia/2012/03/04/333555/Myanmars-opposition.htm|title=Myanmar's opposition leader Suu Kyi falls ill at election rally, recovers|date=4 March 2012|agency=Associated Press|work=China Post|location=Taiwan (ROC)|access-date=15 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815185009/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/malaysia/2012/03/04/333555/Myanmars-opposition.htm|archive-date=15 August 2013|url-status=live}}

In an official campaign speech broadcast on Burmese state television's MRTV on 14 March 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi publicly campaigned for reform of the 2008 Constitution, removal of restrictive laws, more adequate protections for people's democratic rights, and establishment of an independent judiciary.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17363329|title=Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi makes landmark campaign speech|date=14 March 2012|work=BBC News|access-date=15 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315003556/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17363329|archive-date=15 March 2012|url-status=live}} The speech was leaked online a day before it was broadcast.{{cite news|url=http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23204 |title=Suu Kyi's Speech Leaked on Internet Before Broadcast |date=13 March 2012 |agency=Associated Press |magazine=The Irrawaddy |access-date=15 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314141429/http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23204 |archive-date=14 March 2012 }} A paragraph in the speech, focusing on the Tatmadaw's repression by means of law, was censored by authorities.{{cite news|url=http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/6738-burmese-govt-censors-suu-kyis-campaign-speech.html |title=Burmese gov't censors Suu Kyi's campaign speech |date=11 March 2012 |work=Mizzima |access-date=15 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315011133/http://mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/6738-burmese-govt-censors-suu-kyis-campaign-speech.html |archive-date=15 March 2012 }}

Aung San Suu Kyi also called for international media to monitor the by-elections, while publicly pointing out irregularities in official voter lists, which include deceased individuals and exclude other eligible voters in the contested constituencies.{{cite news|url=http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23175 |title=Suu Kyi Warns Canadian FM of Voter List Problems |date=9 March 2012 |agency=Associated Press |magazine=The Irrawaddy |access-date=15 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314154319/http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23175 |archive-date=14 March 2012 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ghDxCYw0UlDzCnPQ4M7DGRtg8POg?docId=N1041441331491159890A|title=Suu Kyi: media must monitor Burma|date=11 March 2012|work=UK Press Association|access-date=15 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321093609/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ghDxCYw0UlDzCnPQ4M7DGRtg8POg?docId=N1041441331491159890A|archive-date=21 March 2012|url-status=dead}} On 21 March 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi was quoted as saying "Fraud and rule violations are continuing and we can even say they are increasing."{{cite news|url=http://www.rfa.org/english/news/burma/election-03212012170629.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130113080044/http://www.rfa.org/english/news/burma/election-03212012170629.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 January 2013|title=Western Election Observers Invited|date=21 March 2012|work=Radio Free Asia|access-date=22 March 2012}}

When asked whether she would assume a ministerial post if given the opportunity, she said the following:{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/myanmar-suukyi-cabinet-idUSL2E8DT3G720120229|title=Myanmar's Suu Kyi says reforms could be reversed|last=Ljunggren|first=David|date=29 February 2012|work=Reuters|access-date=15 March 2012|location=Ottawa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310210942/https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/29/myanmar-suukyi-cabinet-idUSL2E8DT3G720120229|archive-date=10 March 2012|url-status=live}}

{{blockquote|I can tell you one thing—that under the present constitution, if you become a member of the government you have to vacate your seat in the national assembly. And I am not working so hard to get into parliament simply to vacate my seat.}}

On 26 March 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi suspended her nationwide campaign tour early, after a campaign rally in Myeik (Mergui), a coastal town in the south, citing health problems due to exhaustion and hot weather.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/25/suu-kyi-suspends-burma-election-tour|title=Aung San Suu Kyi suspends Burma election tour after falling ill|date=26 March 2012|work=The Guardian|agency=Associated Press|access-date=26 March 2012|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151012095103/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/25/suu-kyi-suspends-burma-election-tour|archive-date=12 October 2015|url-status=live}}

File:Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at home of Aung San Suu Kyi.jpg and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Aung San Suu Kyi and her staff at her home in Yangon, 2012]]

On 1 April 2012, the NLD announced that Aung San Suu Kyi had won the vote for a seat in Parliament.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17577620|title=Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi wins by-election: NLD party|date=1 April 2012|work=BBC News|access-date=9 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220163708/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17577620|archive-date=20 December 2016|url-status=live}} A news broadcast on state-run MRTV, reading the announcements of the Union Election Commission, confirmed her victory, as well as her party's victory in 43 of the 45 contested seats, officially making Aung San Suu Kyi the Leader of the Opposition in the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO0jM7ymHE0|title=Winning NLD candidate list announced in state tv|author=Kyaw Myo Win|date=2 April 2012|publisher=MRTV|access-date=2 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301165050/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO0jM7ymHE0|archive-date=1 March 2013|url-status=live}}

Although she and other MP-elects were expected to take office on 23 April when the Hluttaws resumed session, National League for Democracy MP-elects, including Aung San Suu Kyi, said they might not take their oaths because of its wording; in its present form, parliamentarians must vow to "safeguard" the constitution.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-idUSBRE83J0AI20120420|title=Suu Kyi Myanmar parliament debut in doubt over oath stalemate|author=Aung Hla Tun|date=20 April 2012|work=Reuters|access-date=21 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421091533/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/20/us-myanmar-idUSBRE83J0AI20120420|archive-date=21 April 2012|url-status=live}}The line in question is Schedule Four of the 2008 Constitution (Form of Oaths or Affirmation), which states: "After being elected as an MP, I do solemnly swear to preserve, protect, and nurture the Constitution while following the nation's laws." ({{lang|my|ကျွန်ုပ် ... သည် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖြစ်ရွေးချယ်ခံရပြီးဖြစ်သဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတော်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေကို ထိန်းသိမ်းကာကွယ် စောင့်ရှောက်ပြီး နိုင်ငံတော်၏ ဥပဒေများကိုလည်း လိုက်နာပါမည်။}}), officially translated as: "I do solemnly and sincerely promise that as an elected representative of the Hluttaw, I will uphold and abide by the Constitution of the Union." In an address on Radio Free Asia, she said "We don't mean we will not attend the parliament, we mean we will attend only after taking the oath ... Changing that wording in the oath is also in conformity with the Constitution. I don't expect there will be any difficulty in doing it."{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-idUSBRE83I0CF20120419|title=Myanmar oath standoff puts Suu Kyi's MP debut in doubt|author=Aung Hla Tun|date=19 April 2012|work=Reuters|access-date=21 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421091524/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/19/us-myanmar-politics-idUSBRE83I0CF20120419|archive-date=21 April 2012|url-status=live}}

On 2 May 2012, National League for Democracy MP-elects, including Aung San Suu Kyi, took their oaths and took office, though the wording of the oath was not changed.{{cite news | url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/05/burmas-aung-san-suu-kyi-takes-parliament-seat-making-history.html | work=Los Angeles Times | title=Aung San Suu Kyi makes history by taking Myanmar parliament seat | date=2 May 2012 | access-date=5 May 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508200205/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/05/burmas-aung-san-suu-kyi-takes-parliament-seat-making-history.html | archive-date=8 May 2012 | url-status=live }} According to the Los Angeles Times, "Suu Kyi and her colleagues decided they could do more by joining as lawmakers than maintaining their boycott on principle."

On 9 July 2012, she attended the Parliament for the first time as a lawmaker.{{cite news | url= http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nobel-institute-suu-kyi-cannot-be-stripped-of-prize/article19645585.ece | title= Suu Kyi makes her parliamentary debut | date= 9 July 2012 | work= The Hindu | location= Chennai, India | access-date= 15 April 2018 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171202050515/http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nobel-institute-suu-kyi-cannot-be-stripped-of-prize/article19645585.ece | archive-date= 2 December 2017 | url-status= live }}Fuller, Thomas, [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/world/asia/myanmar-elections.html Democracy Advocate Elected to Myanmar's Parliament, Her Party Says] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401154429/http://www.nytimes.com//2012/04/02/world/asia/myanmar-elections.html |date=1 April 2012 }}, The New York Times, 1 April 2012.

On 16 June 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi was finally able to deliver her Nobel acceptance speech (Nobel lecture) at Oslo's City Hall, two decades after being awarded the peace prize.{{cite web|last=Kyi|first=Aung San Suu|title=Nobel Lecture|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-lecture.html|access-date=13 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629200229/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-lecture.html|archive-date=29 June 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-accepts-nobel-peace-prize.html|title=21 Years Later, Aung San Suu Kyi Receives Her Nobel Peace Prize|first=Steven|last=Erlanger|work=The New York Times|access-date=16 June 2012|date=16 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617043048/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-accepts-nobel-peace-prize.html|archive-date=17 June 2012|url-status=live}} In September 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi received in person the United States Congressional Gold Medal, which is the highest Congressional award. Although she was awarded this medal in 2008, at the time she was under house arrest, and was unable to receive the medal. Aung San Suu Kyi was greeted with bipartisan support at Congress, as part of a coast-to-coast tour in the United States. In addition, Aung San Suu Kyi met President Barack Obama at the White House. The experience was described by Aung San Suu Kyi as "one of the most moving days of my life".{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19651683 | title=Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi given US Congressional medal | date=19 September 2012 | access-date=20 September 2012 | publisher=BBC | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919200708/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19651683 | archive-date=19 September 2012 | url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-myanmar-suukyi-obama-idUSBRE88I0VM20120920 | title=Suu Kyi meets Obama, receives medal from Congress | work=Reuters | date=19 September 2012 | access-date=20 September 2012 | author=Spetalnick, Matt | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920053538/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/20/us-usa-myanmar-suukyi-obama-idUSBRE88I0VM20120920 | archive-date=20 September 2012 | url-status=live }} In 2014, she was listed as the 61st-most-powerful woman in the world by Forbes.{{cite web|title=The World's 100 Most Powerful Women|url=https://www.forbes.com/power-women/list/2/#tab:overall|work=Forbes|access-date=26 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625021133/http://www.forbes.com/power-women/list/2#tab:overall|archive-date=25 June 2014|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN17350334|title=Canada makes Myanmar's Suu Kyi an honorary citizen|access-date=28 December 2010|date=17 October 2007|work=Reuters|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209024713/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN17350334|archive-date=9 December 2015|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.theismaili.org/cms/732/Update-Mawlana-Hazar-Imam-is-made-an-honorary-citizen-of-Canada|title=Update: Mawlana Hazar Imam is made an honorary citizen of Canada|publisher=The Ismaili|date=19 June 2009|access-date=28 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104102035/http://www.theismaili.org/cms/732/Update-Mawlana-Hazar-Imam-is-made-an-honorary-citizen-of-Canada|archive-date=4 January 2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite news | url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19651683 | title= Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi given US Congressional medal | date= 19 July 2012 | work= BBC News | access-date= 21 June 2018 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181030222339/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19651683 | archive-date= 30 October 2018 | url-status= live }}

File:Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi September 2012.jpg at the White House in September 2012]]

On 6 July 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi announced on the World Economic Forum's website that she wanted to run for the presidency in Myanmar's 2015 elections.{{cite web|url=http://investvine.com/myanmars-suu-kyi-wants-to-run-for-president/|title=Suu Kyi wants to run for president|first=Arno|last=Maierbrugger|work=Inside Investor|date=6 June 2013|access-date=7 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130610082733/http://investvine.com/myanmars-suu-kyi-wants-to-run-for-president/|archive-date=10 June 2013|url-status=live}} The current Constitution, which came into effect in 2008, bars her from the presidency because she is the widow and mother of foreigners—provisions that appeared to be written specifically to prevent her from being eligible.{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21579512-running-president-comes-risks-halo-slips |title=Aung San Suu Kyi: The halo slips |newspaper=The Economist |date=15 June 2013 |access-date=19 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619030416/http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21579512-running-president-comes-risks-halo-slips |archive-date=19 June 2013 |url-status=live }}

File:Boris Johnson and Aung San Suu Kyi 2016.jpg meeting Aung San Suu Kyi in London, 12 September 2016]]

The NLD won a sweeping victory in those elections, winning at least 255 seats in the House of Representatives and 135 seats in the House of Nationalities. In addition, Aung San Suu Kyi won re-election to the House of Representatives. Under the 2008 constitution, the NLD needed to win at least a two-thirds majority in both houses to ensure that its candidate would become president. Before the elections, Aung San Suu Kyi announced that even though she is constitutionally barred from the presidency, she would hold the real power in any NLD-led government.{{cite news |title=Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Wins Majority in Myanmar |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34805806 |access-date=13 November 2015 |work=BBC News |date=13 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113070516/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34805806 |archive-date=13 November 2015 |url-status=live }} On 30 March 2016 she became Minister for the President's Office, for Foreign Affairs, for Education and for Electric Power and Energy in President Htin Kyaw's government; later she relinquished the latter two ministries and President Htin Kyaw appointed her State Counsellor, a position akin to a Prime Minister created especially for her.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/burmese/burma/2016/03/160321_dassk_foreign_minister|title=ဒေါ်စု နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး ဖြစ်လာမလား|date=21 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325102715/http://www.bbc.com/burmese/burma/2016/03/160321_dassk_foreign_minister|archive-date=25 March 2016|url-status=live}}[http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/1661 NLD Claims Suu Kyi Victory] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401153331/http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/1661|date=1 April 2012}}, The Irrawaddy, 4 April 2012.{{cite news|title=Myanmar constitution summit 'impractical': presidential spokesman |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/27/us-myanmar-constitution-idUSKCN0JB0UK20141127 |work=Reuters |date=27 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128210625/https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/27/us-myanmar-constitution-idUSKCN0JB0UK20141127 |archive-date=28 November 2014}}Aye Aye Win, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060901000.html Myanmar's Suu Kyi Released From Hospital] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065444/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060901000.html |date=4 March 2016 }}, Associated Press (via the Washington Post), 10 June 2006. The position of State Counsellor was approved by the House of Nationalities on 1 April 2016 and the House of Representatives on 5 April 2016. The next day, her role as State Counsellor was established.{{cite news|date=13 November 2015|title=Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Wins Majority in Myanmar|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34805806|access-date=13 November 2015}}

File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi receiving the State Counsellor of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, in Hyderabad House, New Delhi on January 24, 2018.jpg meeting Aung San Suu Kyi in New Delhi, 24 January 2018]]

As soon as she became foreign minister, she invited Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion and Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni in April and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in May and discussed how to have good diplomatic relationships with these countries.{{Cite news|last=Perlez|first=Jane|date=30 November 2017|title=In China, Aung San Suu Kyi Finds a Warm Welcome (and No Talk of Rohingya)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/china-myanmar-aid-sanctions.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/china-myanmar-aid-sanctions.html |archive-date=1 January 2022 |url-access=limited|access-date=30 July 2020|issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite web|title=Suu Kyi receives award on visit to UK despite protest|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/203340-Suu-Kyi-receives-award-on-visit-to-UK-despite-protest|access-date=30 July 2020|website=www.thenews.com.pk|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=1 November 2016|title=Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi Visits Japan, Seeking Investment|url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/foreign-minister-aung-san-suu-kyi-visits-japan-seeking-investment.html|access-date=30 July 2020|website=The Irrawaddy|language=en-US}}

File:President Rodrigo Roa Duterte prepares to pose for a photo during the releasing of a Commemorative Stamp at the Taj Diplomatic Enclave Hotel.jpg and Thai prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, 25 January 2018]]

Initially, upon accepting the State Counsellor position, she granted amnesty to the students who were arrested for opposing the National Education Bill, and announced the creation of the commission on Rakhine State, which had a long record of persecution of the Muslim Rohingya minority. However, soon Aung San Suu Kyi's government did not manage with the ethnic conflicts in Shan and Kachin states, where thousands of refugees fled to China, and by 2017 the persecution of the Rohingya by the government forces escalated to the point that it is not uncommonly called a genocide. Aung San Suu Kyi, when interviewed, has denied the allegations of ethnic cleansing.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/31/aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmars-great-hope-fails-to-live-up-to-expectations|title=Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar's great hope fails to live up to expectations|last=McPherson|first=Poppy|date=31 March 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=31 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331025116/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/31/aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmars-great-hope-fails-to-live-up-to-expectations|archive-date=31 March 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39510271|title=Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi exclusive interview|last=Keane|first=Fergal|date=5 April 2017|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408221316/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39510271|archive-date=8 April 2017|url-status=live}} She has also refused to grant citizenship to the Rohingya, instead taking steps to issue ID cards for residency but no guarantees of citizenship.{{Cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-myanmar-rohingya-2017-story.html|title=Myanmar's long-suffering Rohingya Muslims hoped that Aung San Suu Kyi would make them full citizens. They were wrong|last=Bengali|first=Shashank|date=9 April 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=11 April 2017|issn=0458-3035|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411074959/http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-myanmar-rohingya-2017-story.html|archive-date=11 April 2017|url-status=live}}

File:Sebastián Piñera and Aung San Suu Kyi at 33rd ASEAN Summit.jpg, 14 November 2018]]

Her tenure as State Counsellor of Myanmar has drawn international criticism for her failure to address her country's economic and ethnic problems, particularly the plight of the Rohingya following the 25 August 2017 ARSA attacks (described as "certainly one of the biggest refugee crises and cases of ethnic cleansing since the Second World War"), for the weakening of freedom of the press and for her style of leadership, described as imperious and "distracted and out of touch".{{cite news|title=Is the world getting Myanmar wrong?|url=https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21730684-future-not-long-ago-deemed-bright-now-feels-bleak-world-getting-myanmar-wrong|newspaper=The Economist|date=26 October 2017|access-date=30 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028215047/https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21730684-future-not-long-ago-deemed-bright-now-feels-bleak-world-getting-myanmar-wrong|archive-date=28 October 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Press freedom is waning in Myanmar|url=https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21738413-no-law-too-obscure-tool-silence-awkward-journalists-press-freedom-waning-myanmar|access-date=9 March 2018|newspaper=The Economist|date=8 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308214442/https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21738413-no-law-too-obscure-tool-silence-awkward-journalists-press-freedom-waning-myanmar|archive-date=8 March 2018|url-status=live}}

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar, Suu Kyi chaired a National Central Committee responsible for coordinating the country's pandemic response.{{Cite journal|last1=Oo|first1=Myo Minn|last2=Tun|first2=Nilar Aye|last3=Lin|first3=Xu|last4=Lucero-Prisno|first4=Don Eliseo|date=10 October 2020|title=COVID-19 in Myanmar: Spread, actions and opportunities for peace and stability|url=http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue202002/jogh-10-020374.htm|journal=Journal of Global Health|volume=10|issue=2|page=020374|doi=10.7189/jogh.10.020374|pmid=33110565|pmc=7568915}}

In 2017, critics called for Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel prize to be revoked, citing her silence over the genocide of Rohingya people in Myanmar.{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/asia/should-aung-san-suu-kyi-give-back-her-nobel-peace-prize/news-story/2a2e214551ba4e490b99116c5a9fc406|title=Should Aung San Suu Kyi give back her Nobel Peace Prize?|work=News.com.au|date=6 September 2017|access-date=6 September 2017|first=Kirrily|last=Schwartz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906082413/http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/asia/should-aung-san-suu-kyi-give-back-her-nobel-peace-prize/news-story/2a2e214551ba4e490b99116c5a9fc406|archive-date=6 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-suu-kyi-.html|title=Why Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize Won't Be Revoked|work=The New York Times|date=4 September 2017|access-date=6 September 2017|first=Russell|last=Goldman|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906015107/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-suu-kyi-.html|archive-date=6 September 2017|url-status=live}} Some activists criticised Aung San Suu Kyi for her silence on the 2012 Rakhine State riots (later repeated during the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis), and her indifference to the plight of the Rohingya, Myanmar's persecuted Muslim minority.{{cite news|title=Rohingya boat people: Myanmar's shame|url=https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21651877-poverty-politics-and-despair-are-forcing-thousands-rohingyas-flee-myanmar-authorities|access-date=25 May 2015|newspaper=The Economist|date=23 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525030023/http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21651877-poverty-politics-and-despair-are-forcing-thousands-rohingyas-flee-myanmar-authorities|archive-date=25 May 2015|url-status=live}}{{cite news|author1=Mehdi Hasan|title=Aung San Suu Kyi's inexcusable silence|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/05/aung-san-suu-kyi-inexcusable-silence-150524085430576.html|access-date=25 May 2015|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=24 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524175308/http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/05/aung-san-suu-kyi-inexcusable-silence-150524085430576.html|archive-date=24 May 2015|url-status=live}} In 2012, she told reporters she did not know if the Rohingya could be regarded as Burmese citizens.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/video/2012/jun/22/rohingya-refugees-burma-bangladesh-video|title=Rohingya refugees leave Burma to seek help in Bangladesh|date=22 June 2012|work=The Guardian|author=Misha Hussain|access-date=29 July 2012|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116002134/http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/video/2012/jun/22/rohingya-refugees-burma-bangladesh-video|archive-date=16 January 2014|url-status=live}} In a 2013 interview with the BBC's Mishal Husain, Aung San Suu Kyi did not condemn violence against the Rohingya and denied that Muslims in Myanmar have been subject to ethnic cleansing, insisting that the tensions were due to a "climate of fear" caused by "a worldwide perception that global Muslim power is 'very great{{'"}}. She did condemn "hate of any kind" in the interview.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24651359 | title=Suu Kyi blames Burma violence on 'climate of fear' | date=24 October 2013 | access-date=7 May 2016 | publisher=BBC | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415173748/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24651359 | archive-date=15 April 2016 | url-status=live }} According to Peter Popham, in the aftermath of the interview, she expressed anger at being interviewed by a Muslim.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/12204113/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-in-anti-Muslim-spat-with-BBC-presenter.html|title=Aung San Suu Kyi in anti-Muslim spat with BBC presenter|author=Nicola Harley|date=25 March 2016|work=The Telegraph|access-date=4 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327205850/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/12204113/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-in-anti-Muslim-spat-with-BBC-presenter.html|archive-date=27 March 2016|url-status=live}} Husain had challenged Aung San Suu Kyi that almost all of the impact of violence was against the Rohingya, in response to Aung San Suu Kyi's claim that violence was happening on both sides, and Peter Popham described her position on the issue as one of purposeful ambiguity for political gain.{{cite book | title=The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom | author= Peter Popham | publisher=Penguin Books | year=2016|page=193}}

However, she said that she wanted to work towards reconciliation and she cannot take sides as violence has been committed by both sides.{{cite news|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/aung-san-suu-kyi-explains-silence-on-rohingyas/1546809.html|title=Aung San Suu Kyi Explains Silence on Rohingyas|date=15 November 2012|publisher=Voice of America|author=Anjana Pasricha|access-date=15 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118034044/http://www.voanews.com/content/aung-san-suu-kyi-explains-silence-on-rohingyas/1546809.html|archive-date=18 November 2012|url-status=live}} According to The Economist, her "halo has even slipped among foreign human-rights lobbyists, disappointed at her failure to make a clear stand on behalf of the Rohingya minority". However, she has spoken out "against a ban on Rohingya families near the Bangladeshi border having more than two children".{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21579512-running-president-comes-risks-halo-slips|title=The halo slips|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=24 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829063259/https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21579512-running-president-comes-risks-halo-slips|archive-date=29 August 2017|url-status=live}}

In a 2015 BBC News article, reporter Jonah Fisher suggested that Aung San Suu Kyi's silence over the Rohingya issue is due to a need to obtain support from the majority Bamar ethnicity as she is in "the middle of a general election campaign".{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32974061|title=Aung San Suu Kyi: Where are you?|work=BBC News|date=2 June 2015|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125104330/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32974061|archive-date=25 November 2018|url-status=live}} In May 2015, the Dalai Lama publicly called upon her to do more to help the Rohingya in Myanmar, claiming that he had previously urged her to address the plight of the Rohingya in private during two separate meetings and that she had resisted his urging.{{cite news|title=Dalai Lama presses Aung San Suu Kyi over Rohingya migrants|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32925805|access-date=3 June 2015|publisher=BBC|date=28 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602225608/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32925805|archive-date=2 June 2015|url-status=live}} In May 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi asked the newly appointed United States Ambassador to Myanmar, Scot Marciel, not to refer to the Rohingya by that name as they "are not recognized as among the 135 official ethnic groups" in Myanmar.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-aung-san-suu-kyi.html | title=Aung San Suu Kyi Asks U.S. Not to Refer to Rohingya | date=6 May 2016 | access-date=7 May 2016 | newspaper=The New York Times | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508033426/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-aung-san-suu-kyi.html | archive-date=8 May 2016 | url-status=live }} This followed Bamar protests at Marciel's use of the word "Rohingya".{{cite news|title=Sanctions on Myanmar|url=https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21699166-america-tweaks-sanctions-not-wholly-democratic-country-not-clear-yet|access-date=20 May 2016|newspaper=The Economist|date=20 May 2016|quote=Suu Kyi unsettled Western diplomats (who not long ago used unequivocally to adore her) when she asked the new American ambassador not to refer to a persecuted Muslim minority by their name, the Rohingyas. Burman chauvinists had demonstrated in Yangon and Mandalay against the new ambassador's use of the word, which in their eyes graces the Rohingyas with the dignity of citizenship which they wish to deny to them.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520152907/http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21699166-america-tweaks-sanctions-not-wholly-democratic-country-not-clear-yet|archive-date=20 May 2016|url-status=live}}

In 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi was accused of failing to protect Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims during the Rohingya genocide.[https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/17/asia/myanmar-rohingya-aung-san-suu-kyi/ Is The Lady listening? Aung San Suu Kyi accused of ignoring Myanmar's Muslims] . CNN. 25 November 2016. State crime experts from Queen Mary University of London warned that Aung San Suu Kyi is "legitimising genocide" in Myanmar.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/rohingya-muslims-burma-myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-legitimising-genocide-a7439151.html Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi accused of "legitimising genocide of Rohingya Muslims"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827102057/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/rohingya-muslims-burma-myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-legitimising-genocide-a7439151.html |date=27 August 2017 }}. The Independent. 25 November 2016. Despite continued persecution of the Rohingya well into 2017, Aung San Suu Kyi was "not even admitting, let alone trying to stop, the army's well-documented campaign of rape, murder and destruction against Rohingya villages".{{cite news|title=South-East Asia's future looks prosperous but illiberal|url=https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21725168-democracy-losing-ground-even-region-grows-richer-south-east-asias-future-looks-prosperous|access-date=19 July 2017|newspaper=The Economist|date=18 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170718213142/https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21725168-democracy-losing-ground-even-region-grows-richer-south-east-asias-future-looks-prosperous|archive-date=18 July 2017|url-status=live}} On 4 September 2017, Yanghee Lee, the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, criticised Aung San Suu Kyi's response to the "really grave" situation in Rakhine, saying: "The de facto leader needs to step in—that is what we would expect from any government, to protect everybody within their own jurisdiction."{{cite web|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41146706|title= Myanmar conflict: Aung San Suu Kyi 'must step in'|author= |date= 4 September 2017|work= BBC News|access-date= 4 September 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170904100511/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41146706|archive-date= 4 September 2017|url-status= live}} The BBC reported that "Her comments came as the number of Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh reached 87,000, according to UN estimates", adding that "her sentiments were echoed by Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai, who said she was waiting to hear from Ms Suu Kyi—who has not commented on the crisis since it erupted". The next day George Monbiot, writing in The Guardian, called on readers to sign a change.org petition to have the Nobel peace prize revoked, criticising her silence on the matter and asserting "whether out of prejudice or out of fear, she denies to others the freedoms she rightly claimed for herself. Her regime excludes—and in some cases seeks to silence—the very activists who helped to ensure her own rights were recognised."{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/05/rohingya-aung-san-suu-kyi-nobel-peace-prize-rohingya-myanmar|work=The Guardian|title=Take away Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel peace prize. She no longer deserves it|first=George|last=Monbiot|date=5 September 2017|access-date=8 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113122900/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/05/rohingya-aung-san-suu-kyi-nobel-peace-prize-rohingya-myanmar|archive-date=13 November 2017|url-status=live}} The Nobel Foundation replied that there existed no provision for revoking a Nobel Prize.[https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nobel-institute-suu-kyi-cannot-be-stripped-of-prize/article61475673.ece Nobel institute: Suu Kyi cannot be stripped of prize] The Hindu. 8 September 2017 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a fellow peace prize holder, also criticised Aung San Suu Kyi's silence: in an open letter published on social media, he said: "If the political price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep ... It is incongruous for a symbol of righteousness to lead such a country."{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/08/desmond-tutu-condemns-aung-san-suu-kyi-price-of-your-silence-is-too-steep|work=The Guardian|title=Desmond Tutu condemns Aung San Suu Kyi: 'Silence is too high a price'|first1=Naaman|last1=Zhou|first2=Michael|last2=Safi|date=8 September 2017|access-date=8 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912023536/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/08/desmond-tutu-condemns-aung-san-suu-kyi-price-of-your-silence-is-too-steep|archive-date=12 September 2017|url-status=live}} On 13 September it was revealed that Aung San Suu Kyi would not be attending a UN General Assembly debate being held the following week to discuss the humanitarian crisis, with a Myanmar's government spokesman stating "perhaps she has more pressing matters to deal with".{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41250057|work=BBC News|title=Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi to miss UN General Assembly debate|date=13 September 2017|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817151526/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41250057|archive-date=17 August 2018|url-status=live}}

In October 2017, Oxford City Council announced that, following a unanimous cross-party vote,{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/07/city-london-debate-stripping-aung-san-suu-kyi-freedom-myanmar-rohingya|work=The Guardian|title=City of London to debate stripping Aung San Suu Kyi of freedom award|first=Ben|last=Quinn|date=7 October 2017|access-date=7 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007152831/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/07/city-london-debate-stripping-aung-san-suu-kyi-freedom-myanmar-rohingya|archive-date=7 October 2017|url-status=live}} the honour of Freedom of the City, granted in 1997 in recognition of her "long struggle for democracy", was to be withdrawn following evidence emerging from the United Nations which meant that she was "no longer worthy of the honour".{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-41466301|title=Aung San Suu Kyi will be stripped of Freedom of Oxford|work=BBC News|date=3 October 2017|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029082303/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-41466301|archive-date=29 October 2018|url-status=live}} A few days later, Munsur Ali, a councillor for City of London Corporation, tabled a motion to rescind the Freedom of the City of London: the motion was supported by Catherine McGuinness, chair of the corporation's policy and resources committee, who expressed "distress ... at the situation in Burma and the atrocities committed by the Burmese military". On 13 November 2017, Bob Geldof returned his Freedom of the City of Dublin award in protest over Aung San Suu Kyi also holding the accolade, stating that he does not "wish to be associated in any way with an individual currently engaged in the mass ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people of north-west Burma". Calling Aung San Suu Kyi a "handmaiden to genocide",{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-geldof/bob-geldof-calls-aung-san-suu-kyi-handmaiden-to-genocide-idUSKBN1DD0X6|title=Bob Geldof calls Aung San Suu Kyi 'handmaiden to genocide'|work=Reuters|access-date=29 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205222153/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-geldof/bob-geldof-calls-aung-san-suu-kyi-handmaiden-to-genocide-idUSKBN1DD0X6|archive-date=5 December 2017|url-status=live}} Geldof added that he would take pride in his award being restored if it is first stripped from her.{{cite news|title = Bob Geldof renounces honour also held by Aung San Suu Kyi|first = Isabel|last = Bennett|date = 13 November 2017|access-date = 13 November 2017|newspaper = The Guardian|url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/13/bob-geldof-renounces-honour-also-held-by-aung-san-suu-kyi|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171113052832/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/13/bob-geldof-renounces-honour-also-held-by-aung-san-suu-kyi|url-status = live|archive-date = 13 November 2017}} The Dublin City Council voted 59–2 (with one abstention) to revoke Aung San Suu Kyi's Freedom of the City award over Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya people in December 2017, though Lord Mayor of Dublin Mícheál Mac Donncha denied the decision was influenced by protests by Geldof and members of U2.{{cite news|url = https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2017/1213/927221-aung-san-suu-kyi/|title = Councillors vote to revoke award from Aung San Suu Kyi|publisher = RTÉ News|date = 14 December 2017|access-date = 15 December 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171214071527/https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2017/1213/927221-aung-san-suu-kyi/|url-status = live|archive-date = 14 December 2017}}{{cite news|newspaper = The Guardian|agency = Agence France-Presse|url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/14/aung-san-suu-kyi-has-freedom-of-dublin-award-revoked|title = Aung San Suu Kyi has Freedom of Dublin award revoked|date = 14 December 2017|access-date = 15 December 2017|archive-date = 14 December 2017|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171214005608/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/14/aung-san-suu-kyi-has-freedom-of-dublin-award-revoked}} At the same meeting, the Councillors voted 37–7 (with 5 abstentions) to remove Geldof's name from the Roll of Honorary Freemen.{{cite tweet|user = John_Kilraine|first = John|last = Kilraine|number = 941035665189474305|title = Dublin councillors voted 37 in favour with 7 against and 5 abstentions to also remove Bob Geldof's name from the Roll of Honorary Freemen #rtenews|date = 13 December 2017|access-date = 15 December 2017|url = https://twitter.com/John_Kilraine/status/941035665189474305|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171215025311/https://twitter.com/John_Kilraine/status/941035665189474305|archive-date = 15 December 2017}}

In March 2018, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum revoked Aung San Suu Kyi's Elie Wiesel Award, awarded in 2012, citing her failure "to condemn and stop the military's brutal campaign" against Rohingya Muslims.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-holocaust-rohingya.html|title=U.S. Holocaust Museum Revokes Award to Aung San Suu Kyi|last=Schwirtz|first=Michael|date=7 March 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=7 March 2018|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307182636/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-holocaust-rohingya.html|archive-date=7 March 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museum-rescinds-award-to-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi|title=Rescinding Elie Wiesel Award from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi|website=USHMM|date=7 March 2018 |access-date=7 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307202933/https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museum-rescinds-award-to-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi|archive-date=7 March 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/03/07/holocaust-museum-rescinds-elie-weisel-award-to-nobel-winner-san-suu-kyi/|title=Holocaust Museum rescinds Elie Wiesel Award to Nobel winner Aung San Suu Kyi|last=Boorstein|first=Michelle|date=7 March 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=7 March 2018|issn=0190-8286|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307230237/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/03/07/holocaust-museum-rescinds-elie-weisel-award-to-nobel-winner-san-suu-kyi/|archive-date=7 March 2018|url-status=live}}

In May 2018, Aung San Suu Kyi was considered complicit in the crimes against Rohingyas in a report by Britain's International Development Committee.{{cite news|author=R.C.|title=The Rohingya crisis bears all the hallmarks of a genocide|url=https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/05/23/the-rohingya-crisis-bears-all-the-hallmarks-of-a-genocide|newspaper=The Economist|date=23 May 2018|access-date=25 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180524223057/https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/05/23/the-rohingya-crisis-bears-all-the-hallmarks-of-a-genocide|archive-date=24 May 2018|url-status=live}}

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In August 2018, it was revealed that Aung San Suu Kyi would be stripped of her Freedom of Edinburgh award over her refusal to speak out against the crimes committed against the Rohingya. She had received the award in 2005 for promoting peace and democracy in Burma.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/22/aung-san-suu-kyi-to-be-stripped-of-freedom-of-edinburgh-award|title=Aung San Suu Kyi to be stripped of Freedom of Edinburgh award|last=Ellis-Petersen|first=Hannah|date=22 August 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=22 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822061008/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/22/aung-san-suu-kyi-to-be-stripped-of-freedom-of-edinburgh-award|archive-date=22 August 2018|url-status=live}} This will be only the second time that anyone has ever been stripped of the award,{{Cite news|url=https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/myanmar-leader-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-be-stripped-of-freedom-of-edinburgh-1-4787236|title=Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be stripped of freedom of Edinburgh|access-date=22 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821103510/https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/myanmar-leader-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-be-stripped-of-freedom-of-edinburgh-1-4787236|archive-date=21 August 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/22/aung-san-suu-kyi-to-be-stripped-of-freedom-of-edinburgh-award |title=Aung San Suu Kyi to be stripped of Freedom of Edinburgh award |last=Ellis-Petersen |first=Hannah |date=22 August 2018 |work=The Guardian |access-date=24 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823213049/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/22/aung-san-suu-kyi-to-be-stripped-of-freedom-of-edinburgh-award |archive-date=23 August 2018 |url-status=live }} after Charles Stewart Parnell lost it in 1890 due to a salacious affair. Also in August, a UN report, while describing the violence as genocide, added that Aung San Suu Kyi did as little as possible to prevent it.{{cite news|title=The UN reports that the assault on the Rohingyas amounted to genocide|url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2018/08/28/the-un-reports-that-the-assault-on-the-rohingyas-amounted-to-genocide|newspaper=The Economist|date=28 August 2018|access-date=29 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829042412/https://www.economist.com/asia/2018/08/28/the-un-reports-that-the-assault-on-the-rohingyas-amounted-to-genocide|archive-date=29 August 2018|url-status=live}}

In early October 2018, both the Canadian Senate and its House of Commons voted unanimously to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship. This decision was caused by the Government of Canada's determination that the treatment of the Rohingya by Myanmar's government amounts to genocide.{{cite news |title=Canada Revokes Honorary Citizenship of Aung San Suu Kyi |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-canada-citizenship.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=9 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003134649/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-canada-citizenship.html |archive-date=3 October 2018 |url-status=live }}

On 11 November 2018, Amnesty International announced it was revoking her Ambassador of Conscience award.{{cite news |title=Aung San Suu Kyi: Amnesty strips Myanmar leader of top prize |last1=Beake |first1=Nick |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46179292 |access-date=12 November 2018 |publisher=BBC |date=12 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113005018/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46179292 |archive-date=13 November 2018 |url-status=live }}

In December 2019, Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in the International Court of Justice at The Hague where she defended the Burmese military against allegations of genocide against the Rohingya.{{cite news |title=Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi: 'Defending the indefensible' |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2019/12/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-defending-indefensible-191213090832880.html |access-date=24 January 2020 |agency=Al Jazeera |date=13 January 2020 |archive-date=25 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125025717/https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2019/12/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-defending-indefensible-191213090832880.html |url-status=dead }} In a speech of over 3,000 words, Aung San Suu Kyi did not use the term "Rohingya" in describing the ethnic group.{{cite news |last1=Safdar |first1=Anealla |last2=Siddiqui |first2=Usaid |title=ICJ speech: Suu Kyi fails to use 'Rohingya' to describe minority |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/aung-san-suu-kyi-fails-word-rohingya-icj-speech-191212102606322.html |access-date=24 January 2020 |date=13 December 2019}} She stated that the allegations of genocide were "incomplete and misleading", claiming that the situation was actually a Burmese military response to attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). She also questioned how there could be "genocidal intent" when the Burmese government had opened investigations and also encouraged Rohingya to return after being displaced.{{cite news |last1=Safi |first1=Michael |title=Factchecking Aung San Suu Kyi's claims over genocide allegations |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/11/factchecking-aung-san-suu-kyis-claims-over-genocide-allegations |access-date=24 January 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=11 December 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Pierson |first1=David |last2=Diamond |first2=Cape |title=Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi dismisses claims of genocide at The Hague |url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-11/myanmar-genocide-the-hague |access-date=24 January 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=11 December 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200124080715/https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-11/myanmar-genocide-the-hague |archive-date=24 January 2020 |url-status=live }} However, experts have largely criticised the Burmese investigations as insincere, with the military declaring itself innocent and the government preventing a visit from investigators from the United Nations. Many Rohingya have also not returned due to perceiving danger and a lack of rights in Myanmar.

In January 2020, the International Court of Justice decided that there was a "real and imminent risk of irreparable prejudice to the rights" of the Rohingya. The court also took the view that the Burmese government's efforts to remedy the situation "do not appear sufficient" to protect the Rohingya. Therefore, the court ordered the Burmese government to take "all measures within its power" to protect the Rohingya from genocidal actions. The court also instructed the Burmese government to preserve evidence and report back to the court at timely intervals about the situation.{{cite news |last1=Mandhana |first1=Niharika |last2=Solomon |first2=Feliz |title=U.N. Court Orders Myanmar to Take Steps to Protect Rohingya Muslims |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-court-orders-myanmar-to-take-steps-to-protect-rohingya-muslims-11579784327 |access-date=24 January 2020 |work=The Wall Street Journal |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200123140638/https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-court-orders-myanmar-to-take-steps-to-protect-rohingya-muslims-11579784327 |archive-date=23 January 2020 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Paddock |first1=Richard |title=U.N. Court Orders Myanmar to Protect Rohingya Muslims |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-genocide.html |access-date=24 January 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=23 January 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200123131315/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-genocide.html |archive-date=23 January 2020 |url-status=live }}

On 14 February 2025, a court in Argentina, acting on a petition from the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK and citing universal jurisdiction, issued arrest warrants against several officials in Myanmar, including Aung San Suu Kyi on charges of "genocide and crimes against humanity" against the Rohingyas.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-15 |title=Argentine court issues warrants for Myanmar officials accused of Rohingya 'genocide' |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250214-argentine-court-issues-warrants-for-myanmar-officials-accused-of-rohingya-genocide |access-date=2025-02-15 |website=France 24 |language=en-US}}

In December 2017, two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were arrested while investigating the Inn Din massacre of Rohingyas.{{cite news |last1=Rezaian |first1=Jason |title=These journalists were jailed for investigating atrocities in Burma. This is what they found. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/09/these-journalists-were-jailed-for-investigating-atrocities-in-burma-this-is-what-they-found/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=9 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709134019/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/09/these-journalists-were-jailed-for-investigating-atrocities-in-burma-this-is-what-they-found/ |archive-date=9 July 2018 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Myanmar defends Suu Kyi's silence over jailed reporters |date=16 January 2012 |url=https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/myanmar-defends-suu-kyis-silence-over-jailed-reporters-doc-18u1562 |agency=Agence France-Presse |access-date=9 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909150422/https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/myanmar-defends-suu-kyis-silence-over-jailed-reporters-doc-18u1562 |archive-date=9 September 2018 |url-status=live }} Suu Kyi publicly commented in June 2018 that the journalists "weren't arrested for covering the Rakhine issue", but because they had broken Myanmar's Official Secrets Act.{{cite web |title=Exclusive: Interview with Aung San Suu Kyi |url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/nhknewsline/inconversation/exclusiveaungsansuukyi/ |publisher=NHK |access-date=9 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909112247/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/nhknewsline/inconversation/exclusiveaungsansuukyi/ |archive-date=9 September 2018 |url-status=live }} As the journalists were then on trial for violating the Official Secrets Act, Aung San Suu Kyi's presumption of their guilt was criticised by rights groups for potentially influencing the verdict.{{cite web |last1=Goldberg |first1=Jacob |title=Jailed reporters' wives 'devastated' by Aung San Suu Kyi response |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/04/jailed-reporters-wives-devastated-aung-san-suu-kyi-response |work=The Guardian |date=5 September 2018 |access-date=9 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909034223/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/04/jailed-reporters-wives-devastated-aung-san-suu-kyi-response |archive-date=9 September 2018 |url-status=live }} American diplomat Bill Richardson said that he had privately discussed the arrest with Suu Kyi, and that Aung San Suu Kyi reacted angrily and labelled the journalists "traitors".{{cite web |title=Suu Kyi's image in shreds as Myanmar jails Reuters pair |date=16 January 2012 |url=https://www.afp.com/en/news/205/suu-kyis-image-shreds-myanmar-jails-reuters-pair-doc-18t42s2 |agency=Agence France-Presse |access-date=9 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909150434/https://www.afp.com/en/news/205/suu-kyis-image-shreds-myanmar-jails-reuters-pair-doc-18t42s2 |archive-date=9 September 2018 |url-status=live }} A police officer testified that he was ordered by superiors to use entrapment to frame and arrest the journalists; he was later jailed and his family evicted from their home in the police camp.{{cite web |last1=Naw |first1=Betty Han |title=Whistle-blower police officer gets one-year jail sentence |url=https://www.mmtimes.com/news/whistle-blower-police-officer-gets-one-year-jail-sentence.html |work=Myanmar Times |date=May 2018 |access-date=9 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626083037/https://www.mmtimes.com/news/whistle-blower-police-officer-gets-one-year-jail-sentence.html |archive-date=26 June 2018 |url-status=live }} The judge found the journalists guilty in September 2018 and to be jailed for seven years. Aung San Suu Kyi reacted to widespread international criticism of the verdict by stating: "I don't think anyone has bothered to read" the judgement as it had "nothing to do with freedom of expression at all", but the Official Secrets Act. She also challenged critics to "point out where there has been a miscarriage of justice", and told the two Reuters journalists that they could appeal their case to a higher court.{{cite news |last1=Mahtani |first1=Shibani |title=Aung San Suu Kyi defends prison sentences for Reuters journalists |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/aung-san-suu-kyi-defends-myanmar-courts-decision-to-sentence-reuters-journalists-to-7-years-in-prison/2018/09/12/67c452e2-b6f8-11e8-b79f-f6e31e555258_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=13 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913045600/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/aung-san-suu-kyi-defends-myanmar-courts-decision-to-sentence-reuters-journalists-to-7-years-in-prison/2018/09/12/67c452e2-b6f8-11e8-b79f-f6e31e555258_story.html |archive-date=13 September 2018 |url-status=live }}

In September 2018, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report that since Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the NLD, came to power, the arrests and criminal prosecutions of journalists in Myanmar by the government and military, under laws which are too vague and broad, have "made it impossible for journalists to do their job without fear or favour."{{cite news |last1=Nebehay |first1=Stephanie |last2=Naing |first2=Shoon |last3=Collett-White |first3=Mike |title=Myanmar army, government aim to silence independent journalism: U.N. |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-rights-myanmar/myanmar-army-government-aim-to-silence-independent-journalism-un-idUSKCN1LR1PS |work=Reuters |access-date=13 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912180455/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-rights-myanmar/myanmar-army-government-aim-to-silence-independent-journalism-un-idUSKCN1LR1PS |archive-date=12 September 2018 |url-status=live }}

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On 1 February 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and deposed by the Myanmar's military, along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party, after Myanmar's military declared the November 2020 general election results fraudulent.{{cite news |title=Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi 'detained by military', NLD party says |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55882489 |access-date=31 January 2021 |agency=BBC News}}{{Cite news|author=Stephen Coates|date=1 February 2021|title=Myanmar military seizes power, detains elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-idUSKBN2A00VC|access-date=1 February 2021}} A 1 February court order authorised her detainment for 15 days, stating that soldiers searching her Naypyidaw villa had uncovered imported communications equipment lacking proper paperwork. Aung San Suu Kyi was transferred to house arrest on the same evening, and on 3 February was formally charged with illegally importing ten or more walkie-talkies. She faces up to three years in prison for the charges. According to The New York Times, the charge "echoed previous accusations of esoteric legal crimes (and) arcane offenses" used by the military against critics and rivals.{{cite news |last1=Beech |first1=Hannah |title=After Coup, Myanmar Military Charges Aung San Suu Kyi With Obscure Infraction |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/world/asia/myanmar-coup-aung-san-suu-kyi.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/world/asia/myanmar-coup-aung-san-suu-kyi.html |archive-date=28 December 2021 |url-access=limited |access-date=4 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=3 February 2021}}{{cbignore}} As of 9 February, Aung San Suu Kyi continues to be held incommunicado, without access to international observers or legal representation of her choice.{{cite news |title=Myanmar's military overturned a democratic election. Now they're warning protesters not to 'destroy democracy' |url=https://ktvz.com/news/national-world/2021/02/09/myanmars-military-overturned-a-democratic-election-now-theyre-warning-protesters-not-to-destroy-democracy/ |access-date=10 February 2021 |publisher=KTVZ |date=9 February 2021}}

US President Joe Biden raised the threat of new sanctions as a result of the Myanmar's military coup.{{Cite web |date=2 February 2021|title=Myanmar coup: Calls for Suu Kyi release as lawmakers held|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55722226|access-date=|work=BBC News}} In a statement, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres believes "These developments represent a serious blow to democratic reforms in Myanmar." Volkan Bozkır, President of the UN General Assembly, also voiced his concerns, having tweeted "Attempts to undermine democracy and rule of law are unacceptable", and called for the "immediate release" of the detained NLD party leaders.{{Cite web|date=1 February 2021|title=Arrests, military control 'a serious blow' to democratic reforms in Myanmar: UN chief|url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/02/1083442|access-date=|publisher=UN}}

On 1 April 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi was charged with the fifth offence in relation to violating the official secrets act. According to her lawyer, it is the most serious charge brought against her after the coup and could carry a sentence of up to 14 years in prison if convicted.{{cite news |last1=Regan |first1=Helen |last2=Harileta |first2=Sarita |title=Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi charged with violating state secrets as wireless internet shutdown begins |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/02/asia/myanmar-suu-kyi-charge-internet-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=2 April 2021 |agency=CNN |date=2 April 2021}} On 12 April 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi was hit with another charge, this time "under section 25 of the natural disaster management law". According to her lawyer, it is her sixth indictment. She appeared in court via video link and now faces five charges in the capital Naypyidaw and one in Yangon.{{cite news |title=Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi slapped with new criminal charge |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/12/myanmars-suu-kyi-charged-with-new-criminal-offence |access-date=19 April 2021 |agency=Al Jazeera |date=12 April 2021}}

On 28 April 2021, the National Unity Government (NUG), in which Aung San Suu Kyi symbolically retained her position, anticipated that there would be no talks with the junta until all political prisoners, including her, are set free. This move by her supporters come after an ASEAN-supported consensus with the junta leadership in the past days.{{cite news |title=Myanmar unity government tells ASEAN no talks until prisoners freed |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/myanmar-unity-government-asean-no-talks-until-prisoners-freed-14709566 |access-date=28 April 2021 |work=Channel News Asia |date=28 April 2021 |archive-date=28 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428053500/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/myanmar-unity-government-asean-no-talks-until-prisoners-freed-14709566 |url-status=dead }} However, on 8 May 2021, the junta designated NUG as a terrorist organisation and warned citizens not to cooperate, nor to give aid to the parallel government, stripping Aung San Suu Kyi of her symbolic position.{{cite news |title=Myanmar junta designates shadow government as a 'terrorist' group |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-junta-designates-shadow-government-as-a-terrorist-group |access-date=9 May 2021 |work=Straits Times |date=8 May 2021}}{{cite news |title=Myanmar junta brands ousted lawmakers 'terrorists' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/myanmar-junta-brands-ousted-lawmakers-terrorists-myanmar-bangkok-aung-san-suu-kyi-karen-b1844394.html |access-date=9 May 2021 |work=The Independent |date=9 May 2021|url-access=subscription}}{{cite news |title=Myanmar junta designates shadow government as 'terrorist' group |url=https://www.dw.com/en/myanmar-junta-designates-shadow-government-as-terrorist-group/a-57473057 |access-date=9 May 2021 |work=Deutsche Welle |date=8 May 2021}} On 10 May 2021, her lawyer said she would appear in court in person for the first time since her arrest after the Supreme Court ruled that she could attend in person and meet her lawyers. She had been previously only allowed to do so remotely from her home.{{cite news |title=Myanmar's Suu Kyi expected to appear in court soon – lawyer |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmars-suu-kyi-expected-appear-court-soon-lawyer-2021-05-10/ |access-date=10 May 2021 |work=Reuters |date=10 May 2021}} On 21 May 2021, a military junta commission was formed to dissolve Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) on grounds of election fraud in the November 2020 election.{{cite news |title=Myanmar junta-appointed electoral body to dissolve Suu Kyi party -media |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-electoral-body-dissolve-suu-kyi-party-myanmar-now-tweet-2021-05-21/ |access-date=21 May 2021 |work=Reuters |date=21 May 2021}} On 22 May 2021, during his first interview since the coup, junta leader Min Aung Hlaing reported that she was in good health at her home and that she would appear in court in a matter of days.{{cite news |title=Myanmar junta leader says Suu Kyi will soon appear |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-ethnic-army-attacks-jade-mining-town-media-say-2021-05-22/ |access-date=22 May 2021 |work=Reuters |date=22 May 2021}} On 23 May 2021, the European Union expressed support for Aung San Suu Kyi's party and condemned the commission aimed at dissolving the party, echoing the NLD's statement released earlier in the week.{{cite news |title=EU denounces Myanmar junta's electoral body plan to dissolve Suu Kyi party |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/eu-denounces-myanmar-juntas-electoral-body-plan-dissolve-suu-kyi-party-2021-05-23/ |access-date=23 May 2021 |work=Reuters |date=23 May 2021}}

On 24 May 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in person in court for the first time since the coup to face the "incitement to sedition" charge against her.{{cite news |title=Myanmar's Suu Kyi appears in court for first time since coup |url=https://www.dw.com/en/myanmars-suu-kyi-appears-in-court-for-first-time-since-coup/a-57638303 |access-date=24 May 2021 |work=Deutsche Welle |date=24 May 2021}} During the 30-minute hearing, she said that she was not fully aware of what was going on outside as she had no access to full information from the outside and refused to respond on the matters. She was also quoted on the possibility of her party's forced dissolution as "Our party grew out of the people so it will exist as long as people support it."{{cite news |title=Myanmar's Suu Kyi appears in court in person for first time since coup |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmars-suu-kyi-appears-court-person-first-time-since-coup-2021-05-24/ |access-date=24 May 2021 |work=Reuters |date=24 May 2021}} In her meeting with her lawyers, Aung San Suu Kyi also wished people "good health".

On 2 June 2021, it was reported that the military had moved her (as well as Win Myint) from their homes to an unknown location.{{cite news |title=Myanmar's military junta relocates Aung San Suu Kyi to an unknown location, according to allies |url=https://marketresearchtelecast.com/myanmars-military-junta-relocates-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-an-unknown-location-according-to-allies/60769/ |access-date=3 June 2021 |agency=Market Research Telecast |date=2 June 2021 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

On 10 June 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi was charged with corruption, the most serious charge brought against her, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years' imprisonment. Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyers say the charges are made to keep her out of the public eye.{{cite news |title=Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi charged with corruption |url=https://www.dw.com/en/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-charged-with-corruption/a-57836685 |access-date=10 June 2021 |work=Deutsche Welle |date=10 June 2021}}

On 14 June 2021, the trial against Aung San Suu Kyi began. Any conviction would prevent her from running for office again.{{cite news |title=Aung San Suu Kyi trial begins in Myanmar |url=https://www.dw.com/en/aung-san-suu-kyi-trial-begins-in-myanmar/a-57877733 |access-date=14 June 2021 |work=Deutsche Welle |date=14 June 2021}} Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyers attempted to have prosecution testimony against her on the sedition charge disqualified but the motion was denied by the judge.{{Cite web|date=29 June 2021|title=Myanmar court denies bid by Suu Kyi to disqualify testimony|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/myanmar-court-denies-bid-by-suu-kyi-to-disqualify-testimony-aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmar-bangkok-high-court-covid-b1874769.html|access-date=2 July 2021|website=The Independent|language=en}}

On 13 September 2021, court proceedings were to resume against her, but it was postponed due to Aung San Suu Kyi presenting "minor health issues" that impeded her from attending the court in person.{{cite news |title=Myanmar's Suu Kyi dizzy and drowsy, skips court appearance |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmars-suu-kyi-skips-court-over-dizziness-lawyer-2021-09-13/ |access-date=13 September 2021 |work=Reuters |date=13 September 2021}}

On 4 October 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi asked the judge to reduce her times of court appearances because of her fragile health. Aung San Suu Kyi described her health as "strained".{{cite news |last1=Ratcliffe |first1=Rebecca |title=Aung San Suu Kyi asks to reduce court time due to 'strained' health |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/04/aung-san-suu-kyi-asks-to-reduce-court-time-due-to-strained-health |access-date=4 October 2021 |date=4 October 2021}}

In November, the Myanmar courts deferred the first verdicts in the trial without further explanation or giving dates.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/30/aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmar-court-set-to-deliver-first-verdict-on-deposed-leader | title=Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar court defers first verdicts at trial of deposed leader |work=The Guardian | date=30 November 2021 |access-date=30 November 2021}} In the same month, she was again charged with corruption, related to the purchase and rental of a helicopter, bringing the total of charges to nearly a dozen.{{cite news |title=Myanmar's military govt files new corruption charge against Suu Kyi – state TV |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmars-military-govt-brings-new-charge-against-suu-kyi-state-tv-2021-11-30/ |access-date=30 November 2021 |work=Reuters |date=30 November 2021}}

On 6 December 2021, Suu Kyi was sentenced to 4 years in jail.{{Cite web|title=Myanmar's Suu Kyi sentenced to four years in jail: Reports|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/6/aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-x|date=6 December 2021|website=www.aljazeera.com|language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206072012/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/6/aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-x |archive-date=6 December 2021 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news|date=6 December 2021|title=Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar court sentences ousted leader to four years jail|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59544484|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206072231/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59544484|archive-date=6 December 2021 |url-status=live}} Suu Kyi, who is still facing multiple charges and further sentences, was sentenced on the charge of inciting dissent and violating COVID-19 protocols. Following a partial pardon by the chief of the military government, Aung San Suu Kyi's four-year sentence was reduced to two years' imprisonment.{{cite news|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmars-aung-san-suu-kyi-jailed-for-four-years-government-spokesman|title=Ousted Myanmar leader Suu Kyi gets jail sentence halved to 2 years|website=The Straits Times (Singapore)|date=6 December 2021|access-date=6 December 2021}}

On 10 January 2022, the military court in Myanmar sentenced Suu Kyi to an additional four years in prison on a number of charges including "importing and owning walkie-talkies" and "breaking coronavirus rules". The trials, which are closed to the public, the media, and any observers, were described as a "courtroom circus of secret proceedings on bogus charges" by the deputy director for Asia of Human Rights Watch.

On 27 April 2022, Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to five years in jail on corruption charges.{{Cite news |last=Paddock |first=Richard C. |date=27 April 2022 |title=Aung San Suu Kyi Found Guilty in Myanmar Ahead of Biden Summit |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/world/asia/myanmar-coup-trial-asean-biden.html |access-date=27 April 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |date=27 April 2022 |title=Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar sentences ex-leader to jail for corruption |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61239881 |access-date=27 April 2022}}

On 22 June 2022, junta authorities ordered that all further legal proceedings against Suu Kyi will take place in prison venues, instead of a courtroom. No explanation of the decision was given.{{cite news|title=Myanmar minister joins Asean defence meeting as junta shifts Suu Kyi trial to prison|work=South China Morning Post|date=22 June 2022|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3182681/myanmar-minister-joins-asean-defence-meeting-junta-shifts}} Citing unidentified sources, the BBC reported that Suu Kyi was also moved on 22 June from house arrest, where she had had close companions, to solitary confinement in a specially-built area inside a prison in Naypyidaw. This is the same prison in which Win Myint had similarly been placed in solitary confinement. The military confirmed that Suu Kyi had been moved to prison.{{cite news|last1=Fraser|first1=Simon|title=Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar ex-leader sent to solitary confinement|work=BBC News|date=23 June 2022|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61906979}}

On 15 August 2022, sources following Aung San Suu Kyi's court proceedings said that she was sentenced to an additional six years' imprisonment after being found guilty on four corruption charges, bringing her overall sentences to 17 years in prison.{{cite news |last1=Lin Kyaw |first1=Khine |title=Ex-Myanmar Leader Suu Kyi Said to Get Six More Years in Prison|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-15/deposed-myanmar-leader-suu-kyi-said-to-get-6-more-years-prison |access-date=15 August 2022 |work=Bloomberg |date=15 August 2022}} In September 2022, she was convicted of election fraud and breaching the state's secrets act and sentenced to a total of six years in prison for both convictions, increasing her overall sentence to 23 years in prison.{{cite news |last1=Slow |first1=Oliver |title=Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi given three more years for 'election fraud' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-62763419 |access-date=12 September 2022 |work=BBC News |date=2 September 2022}}{{cite news |title=Aung San Suu Kyi, Australian economic adviser jailed in Myanmar |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/29/aung-san-suu-kyi-adviser-jailed-in-myanmar-over-state-secrets |access-date=29 September 2022 |work=Al Jazeera |date=29 September 2022}} By 12 October 2022, she had been sentenced to 26 years imprisonment on ten charges in total, including five corruption charges.{{cite news |title=Myanmar court extends Suu Kyi's prison sentence to 26 years |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1128317703/myanmar-court-extends-suu-kyis-prison-sentence-to-26-years |access-date=13 October 2022 |work=NPR |agency=The Associated Press |date=12 October 2022 |language=en}} On 30 December 2022, her trials ended with another conviction and an additional sentence of seven years' imprisonment for corruption. Aung San Suu Kyi's final sentence is of 33 years in prison.

On 12 July 2023, Thailand's foreign minister Don Pramudwinai said at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Jakarta that he met with Aung San Suu Kyi during his visit to Myanmar.{{Cite news |last=Lamb |first=Kate |date=12 July 2023 |title=Thai foreign minister says he met with Aun San Suu Kyi |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thai-foreign-minister-says-he-met-with-myanmars-jailed-leader-suu-kyi-2023-07-12/ |access-date=22 August 2023}} On 1 August 2023, the military junta granted Suu Kyi a partial pardon, reducing her sentence to a total of 27 years in prison.{{cite magazine |title=Myanmar Junta Grants Partial Clemency to Aung San Suu Kyi |url=https://time.com/6300015/aung-san-suu-kyi-prison-sentence-reduced-junta/ |access-date=1 August 2023 |magazine=Time |date=1 August 2023 |archive-date=2 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802163518/https://time.com/6300015/aung-san-suu-kyi-prison-sentence-reduced-junta/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |last1=Stambaugh |first1=Alex |last2=McCarthy |first2=Simone |title=Myanmar junta pardons some Suu Kyi offences, but former leader still faces decades in detention |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/01/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmar-junta-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=1 August 2023 |work=CNN |date=1 August 2023}} Prior to the pardon, she was moved from prison to a VIP government residence, according to an official from NLD party.{{Cite web |date=28 July 2023 |title=Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Moved From Prison: Party Official |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/myanmar-s-aung-san-suu-kyi-moved-from-prison-party-official/7201704.html |access-date=22 August 2023 |website=VOA |language=en}}

However, it was reported that since the beginning of September 2023, she is back in prison. The exact time when she was sent back to prison is unknown.{{Cite news |date=6 September 2023 |title=Myanmar Suu Kyi Unwell, Back in Prison |language=en |work=The Irrawaddy |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-suu-kyi-unwell-back-in-prison-nld-members.html |access-date=8 October 2023}} Since January, Aung San Suu Kyi and her lawyers are trying to get six corruption charges overturned. To this date, the requests are repeatedly denied.{{Cite news |last=Zan |first=Hein Htoo |date=7 October 2023 |title=Myanmar Junta Rejects Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Appeal |language=en |work=The Irrawaddy |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-rejects-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-appeal.html |access-date=8 October 2023}}

On 16 April 2024, the military announced that Aung San Suu Kyi had been transferred to house arrest due to a heat wave.{{Cite news |date=17 April 2024 |title=Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest amid heatwave |language=en |work=Al Jazeera |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/17/myanmars-aung-san-suu-kyi-moved-to-house-arrest-amid-heatwave |access-date=17 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417085628/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/17/myanmars-aung-san-suu-kyi-moved-to-house-arrest-amid-heatwave|archive-date=April 17, 2024}} However, pro-democracy publications such as The Irrawaddy claimed that she remains in prison, with air conditioners being added to her cell.[https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-suu-kyi-remains-in-prison-informed-sources.html Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Remains in Prison: Informed Sources]. April 18, 2024. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418130955/https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-suu-kyi-remains-in-prison-informed-sources.html|date=April 18, 2024}}

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Asked what democratic models Myanmar could look to, she said: "We have many, many lessons to learn from various places, not just the Asian countries like South Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia, and Indonesia." She also cited "Eastern Europe and countries, which made the transition from communist autocracy to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s, and the Latin American countries, which made the transition from military governments. And we cannot of course forget South Africa, because although it wasn't a military regime, it was certainly an authoritarian regime." She added: "We wish to learn from everybody who has achieved a transition to democracy, and also ... our great strong point is that, because we are so far behind everybody else, we can also learn which mistakes we should avoid."[https://archive.today/20130124210800/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g7jcSqNCiDcId7mEJs9DXzmqzGtA?docId=CNG.a49d8e2a5f23889e2d2987feb130e63f.31 Myanmar's Suu Kyi ends US trip, hailing democracy], AFP, 3 October 2012

In a nod to the deep US political divide between Republicans led by Mitt Romney and the Democrats by Barack Obama—then battling to win the 2012 presidential election—she stressed, "Those of you who are familiar with American politics I'm sure understand the need for negotiated compromise."

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• Freedom Now, a US-based non-profit organisation, was retained in 2006 by a member of her family to help secure Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest. The organisation secured several opinions from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention that her detention was in violation of international law; engaged in political advocacy such as spearheading a letter from 112 former Presidents and Prime Ministers to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging him to go to Burma to seek her release, which he did six weeks later; and published numerous op-eds and spoke widely to the media about her ongoing detention. Its representation of her ended when she was released from house arrest on 13 November 2010.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110204230501/http://www.freedom-now.org/campaign/aung-san-suu-kyi/ www.freedom-now.org]. www.freedom-now.org. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
• 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.{{Cite web|title=Aung San Suu Kyi |url=https://www.idea.int/about-us/board_of_advisers/aung-san-suu-kyi|access-date=8 December 2021|website=International IDEA}}{{Cite web|title=Myanmar: Letter to Minister Aung Kyi on publishing bill|url=https://www.article19.org/resources/myanmar-letter-minister-aung-kyi-publishing-bill/|access-date=8 December 2021|website=ARTICLE 19|date=12 October 2013 |language=en-US}}
• The Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), both located in Belgium, granted her the title of Doctor Honoris Causa.{{cite web |url=http://www.vub.ac.be/home/DHC/overzicht.html |title=Overzicht Eredoctoraten Vrije Universiteit Brussel |access-date=4 July 2006 |publisher=Vrije Universiteit Brussel |language=nl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828164639/http://www.vub.ac.be/home/DHC/overzicht.html |archive-date=28 August 2006 |url-status=live }}
• In 2003, the Freedom Forum recognised Aung San Suu Kyi's efforts to promote democracy peacefully with the Al Neuharth Free Spirit of the Year Award, in which she was presented over satellite because she was under house arrest. She was awarded one million dollars.{{Cite web|url=http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=17542|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022212146/http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=17542|url-status=dead|title=freedomforum.org|archive-date=22 October 2008}}
• In June of each year, the U.S. Campaign for Burma organises hundreds of "Arrest Yourself" house parties around the world in support of Aung San Suu Kyi. At these parties, the organisers keep themselves under house arrest for 24 hours, invite their friends, and learn more about Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi.{{cite news | url =http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/action/community.html | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20060715081242/http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/action/community.html | archive-date =15 July 2006 | title =Arrest Yourself | publisher=US Campaign for Burma | access-date =4 July 2006 }}
• 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.{{Cite web|title=Library of Congress|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0004473/|url-status=live|website=US Campaign for Burma|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019183830/https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0004473/ |archive-date=19 October 2020 }}
• The Burma Campaign UK is a UK-based NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) that aims to raise awareness of Burma's struggles and follow the guidelines established by the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi.{{Cite web|title=Home|url=https://burmacampaign.org.uk/|access-date=8 December 2021|website=Burma Campaign UK|language=en-GB}}
• St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she studied, had a Burmese theme for their annual ball in support of her in 2006.{{cite news|url=http://www.thefullmoonball.com/ie/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060823221010/http://www.thefullmoonball.com/ie/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 August 2006 |title=St. Hugh's Full Moon Ball |publisher=The Burma Campaign UK |access-date=4 July 2006 }} The university later awarded her an honorary doctorate in civil law on 20 June 2012 during her visit to her alma mater.{{cite news|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120620.html |title=Aung San Suu Kyi receives honorary degree |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=21 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621124831/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120620.html |archive-date=21 June 2012 }}
• 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.{{Cite web|title=Aung San Suu Kyi|url=https://www.rafto.no/the-rafto-prize/aung-san-suu-kyi|access-date=8 December 2021|website=The Rafto Foundation|language=en|archive-date=8 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208105056/https://www.rafto.no/the-rafto-prize/aung-san-suu-kyi|url-status=dead}}
• She was made an honorary free person of the City of Dublin, Ireland in November 1999, although a space had been left on the roll of signatures to symbolize her continued detention. This was subsequently revoked on 13 December 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.thejournal.ie/freedom-of-dublin-aung-san-suu-kyi-3749045-Dec2017/|title=Councillors vote to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of the Freedom of Dublin|first=Cormac|last=Fitzgerald|date=13 December 2017 |access-date=13 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016165357/http://www.thejournal.ie/freedom-of-dublin-aung-san-suu-kyi-3749045-Dec2017/|archive-date=16 October 2018|url-status=live}}
• 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. In the proposed list of qualified women Aung San Suu Kyi was recognised by Equality Now as the Prime Minister-Elect of Burma.
• The UN' special envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, met Aung San Suu Kyi on 10 March 2008 before wrapping up his trip to the military-ruled country.{{cite news | url =http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/myanmar.un.ap/index.html | title =Arrest Yourself | publisher=CNN| access-date =11 March 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080315010646/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/myanmar.un.ap/index.html |archive-date = 15 March 2008}}
• Aung San Suu Kyi was an honorary member of The Elders, a group of eminent global leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela.{{cite web|url=http://www.theelders.org/elders/aung-san-suu-kyi |title=www.theElders.org Aung San Suu Kyi |publisher=Theelders.org |access-date=30 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815085711/http://theelders.org/elders/aung-san-suu-kyi |archive-date=15 August 2010 }} Her ongoing detention meant that she was unable to take an active role in the group, so The Elders placed an empty chair for her at their meetings.{{cite news |author=Photo: Jeff Moore / AP |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2009/05/26/dip.DTL |title=San Francisco Chronicle Absent but not forgotten |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=26 May 2009 |access-date=30 September 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The Elders have consistently called for the release of all political prisoners in Burma.{{cite web|url=http://www.theelders.org/media/mediareleases/elders-demand-release-aung-san-suu-kyi |title=www.theElders.org The Elders demand release of Aung San Suu Kyi |publisher=Theelders.org |date=26 May 2009 |access-date=30 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714065549/http://www.theelders.org/media/mediareleases/elders-demand-release-aung-san-suu-kyi |archive-date=14 July 2010 }} Upon her election to parliament, she stepped down from her post.{{cite web|url=http://www.theelders.org/article/elders-congratulate-aung-san-suu-kyi |title=The Elders congratulate Aung San Suu Kyi ahead of her appearance in parliament in Burma/Myanmar |publisher=Theelders.org |date=19 April 2012 |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131102824/http://www.theelders.org/article/elders-congratulate-aung-san-suu-kyi |archive-date=31 January 2013 }}
• In 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was given an honorary doctorate from the University of Johannesburg.[http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Newsroom/Publications/Documents/UJ%20Annual%20Report%202010.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104065003/http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Newsroom/Publications/Documents/UJ%20Annual%20Report%202010.pdf|date=4 January 2014}}
• In 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi was named the Guest Director of the 45th Brighton Festival.{{cite web|url=https://brightonfestival.org/guest_director/|title=Guest Director|website=Brighton Festival|access-date=27 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101151424/https://brightonfestival.org/guest_director/|archive-date=1 November 2017|url-status=live}}
• She was part of the international jury of Human Rights Defenders and Personalities who helped to choose a universal Logo for Human Rights in 2011.{{cite web|title=A Logo for Human Rights|url=http://www.humanrightslogo.net/|access-date=1 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203010008/http://www.humanrightslogo.net/|archive-date=3 December 2012|url-status=live}}
• In June 2011, the BBC announced that Aung San Suu Kyi was to deliver the 2011 Reith Lectures. The BBC covertly recorded two lectures with Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, which were then smuggled out of the country and brought back to London.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13627326 BBC News – Aung San Suu Kyi to present the BBC's Reith Lectures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106034157/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13627326 |date=6 November 2018 }}. BBC (10 June 2011). Retrieved 10 August 2011. The lectures were broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service on 28 June 2011 and 5 July 2011.{{cite web|title=Securing Freedom: 2011, The Reith Lectures – BBC Radio 4|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0126d29|website=BBC}}
• 8 March 2012, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird presented Aung San Suu Kyi a certificate of honorary Canadian citizenship and an informal invitation to visit Canada. The honorary citizenship was revoked in September 2018 due to the Rohingya conflict.{{cite news| url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/09/27/canada-revokes-honorary-citizenship-for-aung-san-suu-kyi.html| title=Canada revokes honorary citizenship for Aung San Suu Kyi| first=Tonda| last=MacCharles| date=27 September 2018| newspaper=Toronto Star| access-date=27 September 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928022032/https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/09/27/canada-revokes-honorary-citizenship-for-aung-san-suu-kyi.html| archive-date=28 September 2018| url-status=live}}
• In April 2012, British Prime Minister David Cameron became the first leader of a major world power to visit Aung San Suu Kyi and the first British prime minister to visit Burma since the 1950s. In his visit, Cameron invited Aung San Suu Kyi to Britain where she would be able to visit her 'beloved' Oxford, an invitation which she later accepted. She visited Britain on 19 June 2012.
• In 2012 she received the Honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER444lGc3Qw|title=Aung San Suu Kyi honoured by Oxford University with honorary degree|last=The Telegraph|date=20 June 2012|via=YouTube|access-date=20 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140612202843/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER444lGc3Qw|archive-date=12 June 2014|url-status=live}}
• In May 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi received the inaugural Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent of the Human Rights Foundation.{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304203604577396372334739162 |title=A Prize for Creative Dissent |date=13 May 2012 |work=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=16 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705223127/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304203604577396372334739162 |archive-date=5 July 2015 |url-status=live }}
• 29 May 2012 PM Manmohan Singh of India visited Aung San Suu Kyi. In his visit, PM invited Aung San Suu Kyi to India as well. She started her six-day visit to India on 16 November 2012, where among the places she visited was her alma mater Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi.{{Cite web|title=Delhi's Lady Shri Ram College to felicitate Aung San Suu Kyi|url=https://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/delhis-lady-shri-ram-college-to-felicitate-aung-san-suu-kyi-504363|access-date=8 December 2021|website=NDTV.com}}
• In 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi set up the charity Daw Khin Kyi Foundation to improve health, education and living standards in underdeveloped parts of Myanmar.{{cite news |last1=Moe |first1=Wai |last2=Paddock |first2=Richard |title=Aung San Suu Kyi's Party Puts Loyalist in Line for Myanmar President |url=https://cn.nytimes.com/asia-pacific/20160311/c11myanmar/en-us/ |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909150417/https://cn.nytimes.com/asia-pacific/20160311/c11myanmar/en-us/ |archive-date=9 September 2018 |url-status=live }} The charity was named after Aung San Suu Kyi's mother. Htin Kyaw played a leadership role in the charity before his election as President of Myanmar.[s.n.] (30 March 2016). [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35923083 Myanmar swears in first elected civilian president in 50 years] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909163600/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35923083 |date=9 September 2018 }}. BBC News. Retrieved April 2016 The charity runs a Hospitality and Catering Training Academy in Kawhmu Township, in Yangon Region,{{cite news|url=http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/14998-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-s-hospitality-training-school-seeks-new-youth-applicants.html|title=Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's hospitality training school seeks new youth applicants|author=Aung Kyaw Min|date=12 June 2015|work=Myanmar Times|access-date=12 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312130405/http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/14998-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-s-hospitality-training-school-seeks-new-youth-applicants.html|archive-date=12 March 2016|url-status=live}} and runs a mobile library service which in 2014 had 8000 members.{{cite news|url=https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/libraries-in-myanmar.html|title=Libraries in Myanmar are Taking Strides in the Right Direction|last=Roy|first=Mantra|date=11 July 2014|work=WebJunction|publisher=OCLC|access-date=12 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312131241/https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/libraries-in-myanmar.html|archive-date=12 March 2016|url-status=live}}
• Seoul National University in South Korea conferred an honorary doctorate degree to Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2013.{{cite news |url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2013/01/17/13/0401000000AEN20130117010100315F.HTML |title=Aung San Suu Kyi to receive honorary degree from S. Korean univ. |agency=Yonhap |date=17 January 2013 |work=Yonhap News |access-date=13 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408220159/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2013/01/17/13/0401000000AEN20130117010100315F.HTML |archive-date=8 April 2014 |url-status=live }}
• University of Bologna, Italy conferred an honorary doctorate degree in philosophy to Aung San Suu Kyi in October 2013.{{Cite web|title=Aung San Suu Kyi in Aula Magna|url=https://magazine.unibo.it/archivio/2013/aung_san_suu_kyi_in_aula_magna|access-date=8 December 2021|website=magazine.unibo.it|language=it}}
• Monash University, The Australian National University, University of Sydney and University of Technology, Sydney conferred an honorary degree to Aung San Suu Kyi in November 2013.{{Cite web|title=Monash to host Daw Aung San Suu Kyi|url=https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/monash-to-host-dawaung-san-suu-kyi|access-date=8 December 2021|website=Monash University|date=27 November 2013 |language=en}}{{Cite web|title=How well do you know ANU?|url=https://reporter.anu.edu.au/how-well-do-you-know-anu|access-date=8 December 2021|website=ANU Reporter|language=en|archive-date=8 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208105828/https://reporter.anu.edu.au/how-well-do-you-know-anu|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|date=3 May 2018|title=Honorary Doctors|url=https://www.uts.edu.au/about/university/university-honours/honorary-doctors|access-date=8 December 2021|website=University of Technology Sydney|language=en}}

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The life of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris is portrayed in Luc Besson's 2011 film The Lady, in which they are played by Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis. Yeoh visited Aung San Suu Kyi in 2011 before the film's release in November.{{cite news|last1=Mark|first1=Brown|last2=Simon|first2=Hattenstone|title=Aung San Suu Kyi's tragic love and incredible life come to the big screen|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/19/aung-san-suu-kyi-the-lady|access-date=5 October 2016|work=The Guardian|date=19 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927180922/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/19/aung-san-suu-kyi-the-lady|archive-date=27 September 2016|url-status=live}} In the John Boorman's 1995 film Beyond Rangoon, Aung San Suu Kyi was played by Adelle Lutz.{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990CE7D81539F936A1575BC0A963958260 |title=Beyond Rangoon (1995): Sad Tourist Trapped in Burma |date=25 August 1995 |first=Caryn |last=James |work=The New York Times }}{{cite news|last1=Parinatha|first1=Sampathi|title=Rukmini Vijayakumar in The Lady of Burma|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/theatre/The-Lady-of-Burma-at-Jagriti-Theatre/articleshow/38206128.cms|access-date=5 October 2016|work=The Times of India|date=11 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019230620/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/theatre/The-Lady-of-Burma-at-Jagriti-Theatre/articleshow/38206128.cms|archive-date=19 October 2017|url-status=live}}

Irish songwriters Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan released in 2005 the single "Unplayed Piano", in support of the Free Aung San Suu Kyi 60th Birthday Campaign that was happening at the time.{{cite web|url=http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/new-damien-rice-lisa-hannigan-single-unplayed-piano-be-released-june-21-support-free-662276.htm|title=New Damien Rice & Lisa Hannigan Single "Unplayed Piano" to Be Released June 21 in Support of Free Aung San Suu Kyi 60th Birthday Campaign|work=Marketwire |access-date=23 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923050216/http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/new-damien-rice-lisa-hannigan-single-unplayed-piano-be-released-june-21-support-free-662276.htm|archive-date=23 September 2018|url-status=live}}

Irish rock band U2 wrote the song "Walk On" in tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi.{{Cite news |date=18 June 2012 |title=Aung San Suu Kyi and Bono discuss U2's song Walk On |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-18497408 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424223247/https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-18497408 |archive-date=24 April 2021 |access-date=15 January 2024 |work=BBC News}} It is the fourth track on their tenth studio album, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000), and would later be issued as a single. Lead singer Bono is wearing a t-shirt with her image and name on the front in their official video of the song. "Walk On" won Record of the Year at the 2002 Grammy Awards, that also featured U2 performing the song. Bono publicised her plight during the U2 360° Tour, 2009–2011.{{cite news |url=https://www.u2.com/news/article/1036/ |title=Walk On With Aung San Suu Kyi |work=U2 |date=16 November 2001 |access-date=4 June 2018}}

Saxophonist Wayne Shorter composed a song titled "Aung San Suu Kyi". It appears on his albums 1+1 (with pianist Herbie Hancock) and Footprints Live!.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18497408 |title=Aung San Suu Kyi and Bono discuss U2's song Walk On|date=18 June 2012 |work=BBC News |access-date=12 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112021616/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18497408 |archive-date=12 November 2015 |url-status=live }}

Aung San Suu Kyi underwent surgery for a gynecological condition in September 2003 at Asia Royal Hospital during her house arrest.{{cite web |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2003-09-19-3-aung/290812.html |title=Aung San Suu Kyi Recovering from Surgery in Rangoon – 2003-09-19 |date=30 October 2009 |publisher=Voice of America |access-date=29 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000615/http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-a-2003-09-19-3-aung/290812.html |archive-date=31 December 2013 |url-status=live }} She also underwent minor foot surgery in December 2013 and eye surgery in April 2016.{{cite web |url=http://www.asianewsnet.net/Suu-Kyi-cancels-trips-after-foot-surgery-55308.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131223220826/http://asianewsnet.net/Suu-Kyi-cancels-trips-after-foot-surgery-55308.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=23 December 2013 |title=Suu Kyi cancels trips after foot surgery – ANN |publisher=Asianewsnet.net |date=23 December 2013 |access-date=29 December 2013 }} In June 2012, her doctor Tin Myo Win said that she had no serious health problems, but weighed only {{convert|48|kg}}, had low blood pressure, and could become weak easily.{{cite web |author=Associated Press in Rangoon |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/15/aung-san-suu-kyi-illness |title=Aung San Suu Kyi doctor fears for her health after illness on Europe tour |work=The Guardian |date=15 June 2012 |access-date=29 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000911/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/15/aung-san-suu-kyi-illness |archive-date=31 December 2013 |url-status=live }}

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After being arrested and detained on 1 February 2021, there were concerns that Aung San Suu Kyi's health was deteriorating.{{Cite news |date=5 September 2022 |title=UN Myanmar envoy 'very concerned' about Aung San Suu Kyi's health |language=en |work=Aljazeera |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/5/un-myanmar-envoy-very-concerned-about-aung-san-suu-kyis-health |access-date=24 August 2023}}{{Cite news |date=14 September 2022 |title=Myanmar's Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Reportedly Suffering Health Problems in Prison |language=en |work=The Irrawaddy |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-reportedly-suffering-health-problems-in-prison.html |access-date=24 August 2023}} However, according to military's spokesperson Zaw Min Tun, special attention is given to her health and living condition.{{Cite news |date=3 July 2022 |title=Special attention given to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's health and living situation: SAC spokesperson |language=en |work=Eleven Media |url=https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/special-attention-given-to-daw-aung-san-suu-kyis-health-and-living-situation-sac-spokesperson |access-date=24 August 2023}} Don Pramudwinai also said that "she was in good health, both physically and mentally".{{Cite news |last=Lamb |first=Kate |date=12 July 2023 |title=Thai foreign minister says he met with Aun San Suu Kyi |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thai-foreign-minister-says-he-met-with-myanmars-jailed-leader-suu-kyi-2023-07-12/ |access-date=24 August 2023}}

Although a junta spokesperson claimed that she is in good health, since being sent back to prison in September 2023, it is reported that her health condition is worsening and she is "suffering of toothache and unable to eat". Her request to see a dentist had been denied. Her son is urging the junta to allow Aung San Suu Kyi to receive medical assistance.{{Cite news |date=6 September 2023 |title=Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Unwell, Back in Prison |language=en |work=The Irrawaddy |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-suu-kyi-unwell-back-in-prison-nld-members.html |access-date=8 October 2023}}{{Cite news |last=Ng |first=Kelly |date=6 September 2023 |title=Aung San Suu Kyi ill but denied urgent care, says son |language=en |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66725416 |access-date=8 October 2023}}

• Freedom from Fear (1991){{Cite news |last=Hilliard |first=Mark |title=Freedom from Fear: Fund targeting violence against women launches |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/freedom-from-fear-fund-targeting-violence-against-women-launches-1.4809073 |access-date=2 March 2022 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}} ({{ISBN|0-14-025317-3}})
• Letters from Burma (1991) ({{ISBN|0141041447}})
• Let's Visit Nepal (1985) ({{ISBN|978-0222009814}})

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• Miller, J. E. (2001). Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing. Routledge.
• Reid, R., Grosberg, M. (2005). Myanmar (Burma). Lonely Planet. {{ISBN|978-1-74059-695-4}}.
• Stewart, Whitney (1997). Aung San Suu Kyi: Fearless Voice of Burma. Twenty-First Century Books. {{ISBN|978-0-8225-4931-4}}.

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• Combs, Daniel. Until the World Shatters: Truth, Lies, and the Looting of Myanmar (2021). {{ISBN?}}
• {{Cite book |author=Aung Zaw |title=The Face of Resistance: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Fight for Freedom |publisher=Mekong Press |place=Chiang Mai |year=2014}}{{ISBN?}}
• Aung San Suu Kyi (Modern Peacemakers) (2007) by Judy L. Hasday, {{ISBN|978-0-7910-9435-8}}
• The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner (2002) by Barbara Victor, {{ISBN|978-0-571-21177-7}}, or 1998 hardcover: {{ISBN|978-0-571-19944-0}}
• The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi (2012) by Peter Popham, {{ISBN|978-1-61519-064-5}}
• Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi (2007) by Justin Wintle, {{ISBN|978-0-09-179681-5}}
• Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators (2006) by David Wallechinsky, {{ISBN|978-0-06-059004-8}}
• Aung San Suu Kyi (Trailblazers of the Modern World) (2004) by William Thomas, {{ISBN|978-0-8368-5263-9}}
• No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs (2002) by Naomi Klein {{ISBN|978-0-312-42143-4}}
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=bV3shLzx0B4C 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|978-4-87297-748-6}}
• Aung San Suu Kyi: Standing Up for Democracy in Burma (Women Changing the World) (1998) by Bettina Ling {{ISBN|978-1-55861-197-9}}
• Prisoner for Peace: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy (Champions of Freedom Series) (1994) by John Parenteau, {{ISBN|978-1-883846-05-3}}
• Des femmes prix Nobel de Marie Curie à Aung San Suu Kyi, 1903–1991 (1992) by Charlotte Kerner, Nicole Casanova, Gidske Anderson, {{ISBN|978-2-7210-0427-7}}
• Aung San Suu Kyi, towards a new freedom (1998) by Chin Geok Ang {{ISBN|978-981-4024-30-3}}
• Aung San Suu Kyi's struggle: Its principles and strategy (1997) by Mikio Oishi {{ISBN|978-983-9861-06-8}}
• Finding George Orwell in Burma (2004) by Emma Larkin {{ISBN|0-14-303711-0}}
• Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember (2005) by John McCain, Mark Salter. Random House {{ISBN|978-1-4000-6412-0}}
• {{cite journal|url=http://charlesesalazar.pbworks.com/f/The+idea+of+freedom+in+burma+and+the+pol+thought+of+aung+sang+suu+kyi.pdf|title= The Idea of Freedom in Burma and the Political Thought of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi|last=Silverstein|first=Josef|journal=Pacific Affairs|volume=69|number=2|date=Summer 1996|pages=211–228|jstor=2760725|doi= 10.2307/2760725}}
• Under the Dragon: A Journey Through Burma (1998/2010) by Rory MacLean {{ISBN|978-1-84511-622-4}}
• {{cite book|last1=Richard|first1=Shannon|title=The Lady of Burma|date=2007|publisher=Oberon Books Ltd|location=London|isbn=978-1849438919|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WZpLPzsvIBUC|access-date=5 October 2016}}{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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