Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.
Aung San Suu Kyi. "Nobel Lecture." NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, 16 June 2012.
Having just been told of the Hiroshima atomic bombing:
She had gone to Europe where the 2nd World War was raging.
MacArthur wanted to widen the Korean war and use nuclear weapons against Communist China, after erroneously assuring Truman and other American leaders that his tactics in North Korea would not cause Chinese troops to enter the war. MacArthur would not obey the orders of the civilian government and was thus fired.
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has served as the president of the National League for Democracy (NLD) since 2011, having been the General Secretary from 1988 to 2011. She played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial democracy in the 2010s.