Eighty years ago today, on June 19, 1945 (May 10, 1945 in the lunar calendar), Aung San Suu Kyi, a female revolutionary of Bodian, was born. Aung San Suu Kyi, born on June 19, 1945 in Yangon, Myanmar, is a non-violent pro-democracy politician in Myanmar. She led the National League for Democracy to victory in the general election in 1990, but the election results were annulled by the military government. After 21 years of intermittent house arrest in her apartment by the military government for 15 years, she was finally released on November 13, 2010. Received the Sakharov Prize in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of General Aung San, the national hero who led Myanmar's independence. When her father was assassinated at the age of two, she was raised by her mother to become a Bachelor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics at Oxford University. After graduation, she stayed on to serve in the United Nations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bhutan, etc., and lived in countries other than Myanmar for 28 years. In 1991, she was awarded the "Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought" (SakharovPrizeforFreedomofThought), and more medals followed, catapulting her to the heights of a global icon. In 1960, at the age of 15, she followed her mother as an ambassador to India. While studying at a local women's college, the politics and philosophy of "Mahatma" Gandhi "seeped into her slowly developing mind." Under the influence of Buddhism, she was able to maintain psychological peace, and even the most serious setbacks could not disturb her. When Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi married Michael Aris, a British scholar of Xizang culture and a professor at Oxford University, in 1972, she was criticized by the regime's mouthpiece for betraying Buddhism. For the first 15 years of her marriage, she cared for her family in Oxford, had children and lived quietly, avoiding contact with exiled Burmese dissidents. She even shied away from condemning Ms. Ne Win, showing no sign of being directly involved in Burmese politics. Until March 1988, when she hurriedly bid farewell to her husband and two sons and returned to Yangon to care for her mother, who was critically ill from a stroke, the people of Myanmar were protesting against the military regime, which was brutally suppressed by the army and the police. More than 200 innocent people were killed, and the atmosphere of terror pervaded the country. Many victims, activists and retired high-ranking military officers called on her to come out and lead the democracy movement. On August 26, 1988, nearly a million people in Yangon gathered in the square outside the west gate of the Shwedagon Pagoda, and Aung San Suu Kyi addressed such a large crowd for the first time. On the eve of her first major public speech, the government spread rumors of an assassination attempt against her, but she was meek about any threat. "I cannot turn a blind eye to what is happening in my motherland." At the rally, she wore a long snow-white dress like a white swan flying from a fairyland. Her impassioned demeanor, sonorous voice, and powerful words impressed all the people present and reminded them of her father Aung San, "father and daughter are shaped like one mold." The people of Myanmar found that their long-awaited leader was born. From that moment on, Aung San Suu Kyi was no longer a bystander. In fact, she did not like politics, she wanted to be a writer, "But if I participate, I can't give up halfway." From then on, Aung San Suu Kyi, a delicate and thin woman, became the most troublesome figure of the military government. She had no power, no money, no official rank, but she had the hearts of the Burmese people. Aung San Suu Kyi is well aware that there must be no brute force approach to solving the crisis at home. This approach, which appears to be the most effective on the surface, has actually reduced herself to the same level as the military regime. In Freedom, Aung San Suu Kyi points out: "Some people change because they have no choice. When the dictatorships of the old governments in South Africa and the military dictatorships in Latin America changed, they realized that these changes were inevitable, and this was the best path they could choose. The real change I express is an inner change through understanding, compassion, justice, and love." On September 27, 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi formed her own party, which is also the party of the people of Myanmar, the Myanmar National League for Democracy, and became the general secretary. The NLD quickly grew and became the largest opposition party in Burma. On July 20, 1989, the military government placed Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest on charges of inciting riots, and she refused the terms of her freedom. In May 1990, general elections were held in Burma, and Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, won an absolute majority, winning 392 of the 495 seats in the parliament. Under normal circumstances, she should have become the country's prime minister. However, the military government refused to recognize the results of the election, declared the NLD an illegal organization, and continued to imprison Aung San Suu Kyi. The military formed the "State Law and Order Restoration Committee" to take power, which was later renamed the "National Peace and Development Council". Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She was unable to travel to Norway to receive the prize in person, so she had her son speak in her place. The answer quoted Aung San Suu Kyi as saying: "The pursuit of democracy in Burma is the struggle of a nation to live a full, full and meaningful life as a free and equal member of the world family. It is part of the never-ending human effort to prove that the human spirit can transcend the flaws of his natural attributes." She placed the $1.30 million prize in a trust for the health and education of the Burmese people. Regarding Aung San Suu Kyi's inability to come to receive the prize in person, the chairperson of the Nobel Committee, Francis? Seyerstedt looks back at three other laureates who shared the same fate in history: Karl von Osietsky of Germany, Sakharov of the Soviet Union, and Walesa of Poland. Karl von Osietsky was a hero of resistance to Nazi tyranny, and his award is considered the earliest award of the Nobel Peace Prize in the field of human rights. However, this huge honor did not change his tragic experience: he died in Hitler's concentration camp. But Sakharov and Walesa saw the victory of their struggle and saw their country finally achieve freedom and democracy. Therefore, Francis? "We hope that Aung San Suu Kyi will also see her struggle put on the crown of victory." On October 21, 1994, at the International Symposium on "The Relationship between Culture and Economic Development" convened by the relevant agencies of the United Nations in the Philippines, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was under house arrest by the Burmese military government, sent a paper, which was read by the former President of the Philippines, Mrs. Col Aquino, at the meeting. The article sharply refuted the view that developing countries "should go first with the economy, and democracy should be slowed down."; accused many in power of indiscriminately describing the democratic movement and the demand for the implementation of human rights as being influenced by Western ideology and denying it; called on the United Nations to pay attention to and support the democratic movement and human rights issues in developing countries, especially poor and backward countries. This speech also caused a great sensation throughout the Asia-Pacific region. She was released in July 1995, but she was well aware that once she left Myanmar to visit her family in the UK, she would probably never be able to return to Myanmar again. Instead, she chose to stay and never had the chance to see her husband again. Her husband died in 1999. More poignant than her rocky political experience is the poignant love between her and her British husband. As early as the 1970s, before the two made their marriage vows in Oxford, the British scholar of Xizang culture, Mike Aris, knew that fate would one day make them choose between home and country. He knew very well that the beautiful wife in front of him was no ordinary Burmese woman. Her blood flowed from the blood of Aung San, the leader of the Burmese independence movement, and she was born with the people of the country. She knew in her heart that when the people needed her, she would not hesitate to give herself. After more than ten years of marriage, she lived quietly with him in Oxford, taking care of the family and allowing him to concentrate on academic research. It was the best and peaceful time in their marriage. Until March 1988, when Aung San Suu Kyi learned that her mother was in danger of a stroke, she hurriedly bid farewell to her husband and two sons and rushed back to Burma to serve her mother. Unexpectedly, this visit was the beginning of the couple's heartbreak. Since then, Aris has repeatedly asked to visit his wife in Burma, but the military government has refused. After many struggles, the two met briefly only five times in a few years. The husband and wife were last reunited in late 1995, but he has not been allowed to enter Myanmar since then. Aris died of cancer in Oxford in March 1999, and due to repeated obstruction by the military government, Aung San Suu Kyi was finally unable to go to the UK for her funeral. "I will never stand between you and your motherland." Aris's promise of love was finally expressed through death. His love was the white flower pinned to Aung San Suu Kyi's hair, pure and steadfast. Today, it is transformed into a gentle lamp on her lonely road, quietly illuminating the way forward for her. Aung San Suu Kyi was devastated to learn of her husband's death. The military regime urged her to go to England to be reunited with her two sons. However, Aung San Suu Kyi knew that once she left her country, she would never be able to return. She wrote in her diary: "The separation of my family is one of the prices I must pay for a free Myanmar." Since she was first placed under house arrest in July 1989, Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 14 of the past 20 years in prison or under house arrest. On May 27, 2007, the date when her soft ban was supposed to expire, she should be able to go out of her house freely and interact with the people, but the Burmese military government arrived at her residence two days early and informed her that the house arrest period would continue. June 19, 2005: Anti-Myanmar demonstrations broke out in 14 countries around the world, demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi because it was her 60th birthday. Damien Rice's UnplayedPiano was also composed here. It is said that during her house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi was not depressed. She lived a very regular life, reading poetry, prose, and learning French and Japanese. She loved to listen to rock music, and the American rock band "Grateful Dead" was her favorite rock band. She also often played the piano alone at night, but her piano broke down and tried to fix it. This is also the source of damien's song title "unplayedpiano". General Aung San commented: Immortal experience, legendary life, great woman.