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No.1 in 50
SHE woman magazine(Australia) May 1997
50 INSPIRATIONAL Women we admire most in the World
AUNG SAN SUU KYI ( No,1 )
The slight Burmese woman who took on her country's military junta,
enduring six years of house arrest and separation from her English
family, has come to epitomise peaceful resistance to tyranny. Founder of
the National Leagre of Democracy, she was awarded the Nobel peace prize
in 1995, reinforcing her position as a vociferous thorn in the
dictatorship as a vociferous thorn in the dictatorship's side.