Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
We do not want to change everything. We don’t want to flex our muscles. We seek reconciliation and not domination.
After 15 years under House Arrest by the Military running the country, under great US and World pressure and sanctions she was released, and her party won in a landslide in the first Democratic election the country experienced in many decades. When she assumed power, it was expected that she would change everything that the military government had done, but she was very judicious and changed the substantive issues leaving many of the symbolic u=issues in place.
Interview with Farad Zacharia, CNN Global Public Square, September 25, 2016
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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.
