Grew up in Myanmar and India but moved to England in the 1960s.
Timeline
1964 – Moves to England to study at Oxford University.
1969-1971 – Works at the United Nations in New York as assistant secretary for the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions.
1985-1986 – Is a visiting scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
1987
April 1988 – Returns to Myanmar when her mother suffers a severe stroke.
August 26, 1988
September 24, 1988
– Co-founds the National League for Democracy (NLD), a party dedicated to nonviolence and civil disobedience, and is appointed general secretary.
July 20, 1989
– Is placed under house arrest for charges of trying to divide the military, charges she denies.