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Article: Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar: a review of the lady's biographies.(Author abstract)(Report)
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- Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, popularly known in Myanmar as "the lady" or "Daw Suu", is considered the leader of the Myanmar pro-democracy movement by locals and foreigners alike. An Iraqi taxi driver I met in Gothenburg, Sweden, did not know where Myanmar was but had heard of Aung San Suu Kyi. Likewise, a Nigerian taxi driver in Chicago was not aware of the fact that Burma and Myanmar were the same country, but he knew who Aung San Suu Kyi was. Since she won the Noble Peace Prize in 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi (hereafter referred to as Suu Kyi) has been dubbed by some as the "goddess of democracy". Quite often, the biographies of leading political figures are written by their ...