Source: Good News Network
30 years ago, the now-Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi co-founded the first social-democratic political party in Myanmar (Burma). After two decades being banned by the military junta from holding any political office, The National League for Democracy finally, in 2012, won 43 of the 45 available seats in Parliament, paving the way for the country’s first non-military president in 54 years.
Devoted to freedom and non-violence, Aung San Suu Kyi was kept under house arrest for 15 years but emerged, as leader of her newly-victorious party, to become the first and incumbent State Counsellor, akin to a prime minister. In the 2015 general election, the NLD won a supermajority in both houses of the Assembly. (1988)– Photo by Htoo Tay Zar, CC license
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