Yet if her exemplary fortitude has earned Aung San Suu Kyi world-wide admiration, inside Burma itself little has changed - as Justin Wintle's comprehensive biography makes hideously plain. As well as house arrest she has endured every kind of intimidation, including an attempt on her life in 2003. Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi by Justin Wintle (Hardcover). Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, at great personal cost she has steadfastly opposed Burma's brutal military regime since 1988, when she emerged as the leader of the Burmese democracy movement. Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi is an iconic figure, and the best-known prisoner of conscience alive today. Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects Historian Justin Wintles rounded biography of the best-known prisoner of conscience alive. Hong Kong Golden Dragon Books 2022-2023 Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi by Justin Wintle.
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