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Aung San Suu Kyi

Former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

  • Fame83.4
  • Momentum14.5
  • Politicians rank#65
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  • Fame83.4
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  • Politicians rank#65
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Born 1945 · age 81
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  • Age
    81
    Born 1945
  • Known for
    Burma VJ: Reporting fr…
    2008
Summary
Updated 2026-08-14

She spent 15 years under house arrest as the world's most famous political prisoner, won a Nobel Prize she couldn't collect in person, then led Myanmar's fragile opening — only to defend the military against genocide charges and end up back in prison after a coup, serving 27 years on charges the West calls political theater.

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Born in 1945 to Aung San, the father of modern Myanmar, she studied at Oxford and worked at the UN before the 8888 Uprising in August 1988 pulled her into politics. She co-founded the National League for Democracy, which won 81% of seats in 1990 — results the junta nullified, locking her under house arrest for nearly 15 of the next 21 years. She survived an assassination attempt in 2003 that killed at least 70 NLD members. Her party's 2015 landslide made her State Counsellor in 2016, barred from the presidency because her late husband and children held foreign citizenship. As de facto leader s…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi
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The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.
— In Quest of Democracy (1991)
Aung San Suu Kyi
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
— In Quest of Democracy (1991)
Aung San Suu Kyi
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While a private individual may be bound only by the formal vows that he makes, those who govern should be wholly bound by the truth in thought, word and deed.
— In Quest of Democracy (1991)
Aung San Suu Kyi
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It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs.
— In Quest of Democracy (1991)
Aung San Suu Kyi
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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it. Human life therefore is infinitely precious.
— In Quest of Democracy (1991)
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Fame
Stable
83.4
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum14.5
Historical26.8
Now attention36.5
Source confidence75.0
Completeness75.0
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Category rank
#65
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