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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Read about Burma's ethnic minorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aung San Suu Kyi | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...think corporations should give more attention to this suffering and should wait to invest until there is a responsible government in Burma. I do not think it is a good idea to separate economics from politics; in fact, I do not think economics can be separated from politics." -The Progressive, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aung San Suu Kyi | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...every way possible emulated what her father stood for, which was for the right of the people to govern themselves and to have a free and democratic country. Her stubbornness is her strength." -Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert at Rutgers University (New York Times, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aung San Suu Kyi | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...Married a British professor and lived abroad until 1988, when she returned to Burma to care for her ailing mother and became a leading advocate for democracy and human rights amid a brutal crackdown by the nation's junta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aung San Suu Kyi | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...Fearing she would not be allowed to return to Burma, Suu Kyi chose not to leave the country to visit her husband, Michael Aris, as he died of cancer in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aung San Suu Kyi | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

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