Kim Aris was there when his mother, Aung San Suu Kyi, was first placed under ... up of the sacrifices his family made, he said. Suu Kyi’s father, Myanmar’s independence hero, was assassinated ...

This video grab shows Kim Aris displaying an old family photo of his mother, Myanmar's ousted and detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an interview with The Associated Press in London, Sept. 13 ...

It subsequently changed hands to Gen. Aung San, the hero of Burma’s independence movement and Suu Kyi’s father. The sword has likely been in Suu Kyi’s possession since her father was ...

Recommended The international community is shamed by its silence over Aung San Suu Kyi Myanmar must be held ... from a regime that had murdered her father, briefly the first ruler of newly ...

Four years ago, the former British colony wedged between India and China promised so much. A half-century of military rule had given way to a government with a popular leader elected cleanly, with ...

Aung San Suu Kyi: "Our greatest challenge is to address the roots of distrust and fear, prejudice and hate" The spectacle of Aung San Suu Kyi, a once-persecuted Nobel peace laureate now defending ...

Factoids on Aung San Suu Kyi Only two years old when her father General Aung San was assassinated in 1947, just six months before independence. Imprisoned in 2002 following a clash between her ...

The Independent has been hailed for shining a light on the continued imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi by a brutal military regime in Myanmar. Human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger and Wild Swans ...

Amnesty International is stripping Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award. The politician and Nobel peace prize winner received the ...

A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the Central Bank of Myanmar in Yangon on Feb. 15, 2021. (Photo: AFP) Earlier this ...

The crisis — deemed a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by the United Nations Human Rights chief — has also damaged the reputation of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader and iconic Nobel ...