He is a small, but just the physical weight. Aung San Suu Kyi is the symbol of a very long struggle for democracy in Myanmar.The 66 year-old icon of human rights have challenged authoritarian Burma military junta with its calm and grace when she spent 15 of the 21 years under house arrest for his infinite resistance to the authoritarian regime in Myanmar.
At the time it was published in November 2010, she was perhaps the world's most recognizable political prisoner. She received the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights.
Over the past year, Suu Kyi met several times with Thein Sein of Myanmar Prime Minister and Minister of the country for work and social assistance, social assistance and resettlement, Aung Kyi.
Now, in the next general elections in Myanmar, Nyan Win, spokesman for her National League for Democracy, said on Friday. Her National League for Democracy, announced earlier Friday that it plans to re-register a political party and participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
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Meeting Aung San Suu Kyi during her captivity, she lived quietly at his house disintegrating Inya Lake in Yangon (former capital, also known as Rangoon), accompanied only by two servants.
She had little outside contact with humans, except for visits from her doctor.
Sometimes, but she was able to speak on the wall of his substance to his followers, never tired of his crusade to destroy the tyranny of the dictatorship in his beloved country of Burma, the alternative name for Myanmar.
Known as the "lady" in Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi has been compared to former South African President Nelson Mandela, who spent a chunk of his life in prison for fighting apartheid.
In an interview on CNN several years ago, Suu Kyi, Myanmar, in fact, to compare the situation of race-based former South Africa's brutal system.
"It 'a kind of apartheid," he said. "Africa was apartheid based on color. This is apartheid based on ideas. There are those who want democracy are somehow alien inferior race, and not".
The daughter of General Aung San, independence hero of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi has spent much of his early life abroad, going to school in India and the University of Oxford in England.
She has never sought political office. By contrast, the leadership was given to her when she returned home in 1988 after her mother suffered a stroke.
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During his visit, said a student uprising and focused on her as a symbol of freedom. When Suu Kyi's mother died the next year, promised Suu Kyi, that just as his parents had served the people of Burma, so also would she.
In his public speech first, she stood before a crowd of hundreds of thousands with her husband, Michael Aris, and his two son, and called for a democratic government.
"The current crisis is the concern of the whole nation," she said. "I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to what was happening. This national crisis could in fact be called the struggle for independence of a second. "
She has conquered the Burmese people. One was Nyo Ohn Myint, who participated in 1988 events as a university professor and is now one of the leaders in the National League for Democracy, Suu Kyi.
"He's more of a father's daughter," he told CNN. "He has demonstrated the ability to connect the people of Burma."
In 1989, the military authorities threw him in prison. But even if Suu Kyi, is behind bars, his party won the landslide election the following year, earning 82 percent of the seats in Parliament.
The system ignores the results of the vote and General Than Shwe has continued to set several conditions for his arrest. Suu Kyi, in turn, has received several awards for human rights and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
Over the years, repeatedly Aung San Suu Kyi has challenged the junta and discouraged foreign investment in Myanmar. In one incident in 1998, soldiers prevented her from leaving Rangoon. But Aung San Suu Kyi refused to return and was detained in his van for almost two weeks. The event left her severely dehydrated, but is typical of almost stubborn determination.
Myint described her as energetic, but humble. And a good listener.
"It's a skill that I hardly see in other people," said Myint.
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She was a devout Buddhist, who from the beginning, admired the principles of nonviolence and civil disobedience championed by India's Mahatma Gandhi, said Myint.
Years, Suu Kyi has made clear his commitment to bring democracy to Myanmar. He spoke of his separation to his loved ones have chosen to make a sacrifice for the freedom of their country.
Death of her husband pleaded with the authorities of Myanmar to allow him to visit his wife. He had seen her last in 1995, but his request was denied.
Instead, Suu Kyi, the junta has encouraged the family to join him abroad. But he said he knew that if he left, he will never go back. Aris died of prostate cancer in March 1999.
Even before they were married, Suu Kyi was Aris wrote a letter professing his love for the country.
"I ask only one thing," she writes, "if my people need me, you could help me do my duty by them."
Myint said, calling him to express his condolences after Aris died in 1999. Suu Kyi was on a quiet four-minute phone conversation, but Myint could tell his heart was broken.
"Maybe we are good at politics," said Myint Aung San Suu Kyi. "But we have family problems hurt."
Life in captivity
Aung San Suu Kyi tried to break the monotony of his life playing the piano, another passion of his life, according to the independent magazine Irrawaddy.
But over time, the piano and twisted Aung San Suu Kyi returned to painting to fill the void, the magazine. One day, perhaps, people will see his work.
Suu Kyi has also asked his lawyers to put his books in English and French.
Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz was allowed to present his book "Globalization and Its Discontents."
In 2007, people are defiantly in the streets to protest fuel costs. The protests were seen as a direct challenge to the authority of the Board of Directors.
The regime responded with a brutal assault. Suu Kyi detention was extended again and again. She seemed to lean - and unhappy.
Even when Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar in May 2008, Aung San Suu Kyi was not allowed to leave home, if the trees were crashing around him.
The following year, Myanmar again pushed into the headlines by a bizarre incident involving an American, John Yettaw, who improvised flippers to swim in Inya Lake composed Suu Kyi. He said he had received a message from God to do it. Yettaw has been arrested, and Aung San Suu Kyi was put on trial, accused of Yettaw houses, and was punished by an additional 18 months of house arrest.
Some believe the stubborn challenge to Suu Kyi has become an obstacle to progress in Burma. However, his followers are ardent in their admiration. She clung to his dream of democracy, peace and freedom of Myanmar 50 million poor, say
