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Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, daughter of the independence leader Aung San, who led the democracy movement against military rule from 1988. Her National League for Democracy won the 1990 election, which the junta ignored, and she spent about fifteen of the following years under house arrest, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She led the government as State Counsellor from 2016 until the coup of 2021, after which she was imprisoned.
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