AUNG SAN Suu KYI MYANMAR's FREEDOM FIGHTER QUICK FACT Although Myanmar is considered the country's official name many people especially those who support Aung San Suu Kyi still refer to the country as Burma Because the military dictatorship changed the country's name to Myanmar it remains U S policy to refer to the country as Burma in most contexts who served as Burma's first female ambassador From 1960 to 1967 Khin Kyi was the Burmese ambassador to India and Nepal EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREER After graduating from high school Suu Kyi moved to England and became a student at the University of Oxford She earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy politics and economics Oxford is where she met her future husband Michael Aris an expert on Tibetan and Himalayan
Who Is Aung San Suu Kyi Suu Kyi moved to New York City where she worked for the United Nations She worked as an assistant secretary for the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions In 1971 Suu Kyi married Aris They lived in Bhutan for a year where Suu Kyi worked as a research officer of the Royal Ministry of Foreign COOD Michael Aris and Suu Kyi outside an office in Kensington London where they had registered to be in
AUNG SAN Suu KYI MYANMAR's FREEDOM FIGHTER Affairs In 1973 the couple settled in the city of Oxford to raise their two sons Alexander born in 1973 and Kim born in 1977 SCHOLARSHIP AND PUBLISHING Before Suu Kyi became a pro democracy leader her career was centered mostly on education and research After getting married she served as a visiting scholar at the Center of Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University in Japan It was here that she began to do some research about the time her father had spent in Japan In 1984 she published Aung San a biography of father While she QUICK FACT In addition to a biography of her father Aung San Suu Kyi has also published travel books on Nepal Bhutan and Burma IO
Who Is Aung San Suu Kyi was living in Japan she also published the article Socio Political Currents in Burmese Literature 1910 1940 in a Tokyo University journal Upon her return to England Suu Kyi enrolled in the London School of Oriental and African Studies with the intent of completing an advanced degree Her schooling was cut short when her mother became ill and Suu Kyi went back to Burma to care for her RETURN TO BURMA In addition to being a scholar wife and mother Suu Kyi was a dutiful and loving daughter When her mother who had returned to Burma after her appointment as ambassador had ended suffered a stroke Suu Kyi traveled to care for her She left her husband and sons behind in England During this trip home Suu Kyi witnessed human rights violations committed by the military junta that had taken control of the country She saw for herself how poorly the country's people were being treated Many people were out of work and starving and the military junta was involved in a civil war along II
