Aung San Suu Kyi Fearless Voice of Burma

When Aung San Suu Kyi returned to her native Burma to tend to her ailing mother no one could have known that within a few months the quiet woman would become a leader of her people. In 1989 after Suu Kyi had worked only a year in Burma's renewed struggle for democracy the military government place her under house arrest. The following years while still confined to her home Suu Kyi led Burma's National League for Democracy to victory in a national election. The military government refused to recognize the election.<br>In 1991 still under arrest Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize. Upon her release from house arrest in 1995 thousands flocked to Suu Kyi's home in Rangoon to hear her speak. There she offered hope that democracy may yet blossom in Burma.<br>Whitney Stewart's biography based on personal interviews with Aung San Suu Kyi and those around her illuminates the dangers endured and the triumphs enjoyed by this inspiring woman who has been put back under house arrest in her homeland.<br>Additional materials by Burmese authors brings this fascinating biography right up-to-date including the Saffron Revolution of 2007.