Aung San Suu Kyi Speech Collections

(14 Jul 1995) Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she hasn't ruled out becoming Prime Minister one day. The Nobel Prize winner is considering her future after being freed from six years of house arrest in Rangoon earlier this week. Supporters are still flocking to her home and - she's told APTV she'll be guided by the will of the people. Here is a woman little accustomed to having the press on her doorstep. Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is now celebrating the fifth day of freedom after being under house arrest for the past six years. In the light of her release, she is urging countries not to rush to improve relations with Burma following her release because "nothing else" has changed under military rule. But she insists - she will give all she can for the people - perhaps even be their prime minister.

10 Dec 2019 / Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi used to be seen as a symbol of human rights and spent years under house arrest for promoting democracy.  Now, as Myanmar's civilian leader, she is at the International Court of Justice to defend her country against charges of genocide committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority. She will, in fact, be defending the very people who had previously imprisoned her - the military.  How did this peace icon wind up in the dock? [ BBC ] 

A grave humanitarian crisis right now is occurring in Myanmar, where more than 400,000 members of the country's Rohingya minority have fled to neighboring Bangladesh following a campaign of rape, destruction, and killing carried out by Myanmar's military. The crisis — deemed a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by the United Nations Human Rights chief — has also damaged the reputation of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader and iconic Nobel Peace laureate, who has downplayed the grievances of the Rohingya and refrained from criticizing the military in her public appearances.

Aung San Suu Kyi's silence has attracted widespread condemnation, not least from fellow Nobel laureates Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousafzai. But in an appearance at Asia Society on Friday, Australia Foreign Minister Julie Bishop argued that Myanmar's leader "may be taking the blame for matters that are outside her control."

L'icône birmane Aung San Suu Kyi est célébrée mercredi 27 juin par Paris qui a fait d'elle en juin 2004 une citoyenne d'honneur, au deuxième jour de sa visite en France, dernière étape de sa tournée européenne triomphale. (2012)

We know Aung San Suu Kyi as "a golden bird in a cage"; she is a valuable icon representing freedom and democracy which the suppressed population of Burma much hopes for. In the West she stands out as a symbol of peace and reconciliation, she has been awarded countless prizes for her effort, among them the Nobel Peace Prize. But who is the person and woman behind it all? In this film, her close family, friends, and close colleagues tell about a daughter, a wife, a friend, a mother, and a rebel - that early in life met deep grief and deprivation.

[ 28 Jul 2022 ] 18 months after the shocking military coup, Myanmar is still in a state of violence and disarray. In a rare show of political unity, ASEAN blocked Myanmar’s leaders from taking part in high-level association meetings. ASEAN also appointed a Special Envoy to Myanmar to push a “five-point consensus” to bring the bloody violence to a temporary halt. But as ASEAN’s attempt to reduce the killing and executions helped at all?  Prak Sokhonn, Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister, and ASEAN Special Envoy to Myanmar speak in his first in-person interview with international media since taking office on In Conversation.

"Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said the case brought against her country at the World Court was "incomplete and misleading" as she began her defense to accusations of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority on Wednesday. Suu Kyi, once feted in the West as a heroine of democracy spoke for about 30 minutes at the courtroom in The Hague in defense of the actions of the Myanmar military, which she said did not constitute genocide. In three days of hearings this week, judges are hearing the first phase of the case: Gambia's request for "provisional measures" - the equivalent of a restraining order against Myanmar to protect the Rohingya population until the case is heard in full. More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar to Bangladesh after the military launched a crackdown in western Rakhine state in August 2017..." "Global News" (Toronto)

Aung San Suu Kyi at the Internatioanl Court of Justice

In a meeting conducted via video conference, Aung San Suu Kyi discusses recent changes in Myanmar, her decision to rejoin the political system, and Myanmar-U.S. relations. (2011) 

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at San Francisco Freedom Forum 2012 The Long Road to Freedom