1^Is In February 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested by the Burmese government and placed under house arrest. The second carried out its eighteenth coup.

Arrested again in 30 years!

A look back at the turbulent political life …

Repeated habit, alas! In July 1989, when she was secretary general of the party co-founded by the National League for Democracy (LND), she was arrested by the military government that came to power a year ago. Because, “disturbance in the public order”. They will remain under house arrest for six years.

He was awarded the Sakharov Prize and the Rafto Prize in 1991 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Meanwhile, his party did worse than expected from opinion polls, which saw them at gaining about 60 per cent of the vote. The government barred its 392 deputies from sitting. Aung San Suu Kyi is resettled and a new repression begins.

In 1995, she was released from custody under her supervision but was barred from leaving the country unless she feared she would return to Burma.

Her husband, Michael Aris, a British man, died in 1999 without seeing her again. She was separated from her two sons who lived in England.

In 2000, they returned to prison. She was released through negotiations between the UN and the military. In 2003, she was attacked by her soldiers in the depot, from which she escaped. Arrested, she was again imprisoned in Rangoon.

The Burmese government is renewing the opposition leader’s house arrest under the 1975 State Protection Act, which allows for up to five years in prison without trial.

In 2006, she was still in a remand center, without a telephone, without mail, without the medical care she needed, with health problems.

During these 5 years in detention, the Irish rock group U2 wrote the song “Walk On” for them; The MTV Europe Music Awards give him the “Free Your Mind” award; The city of Paris made her a “decent citizen”; Forbes Class 47^th The most powerful woman in the world (she will be 19 in 2012).

In 2007, 50 former world leaders in a letter (Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Jack Delores) called for his release.

Later, demonstrations of Buddhist monks began in Burmese cities. Despite international pressure, general strikes and demonstrations, the military detains her; She was sentenced in 2009 to 18 months in prison for refusing to run in the 2010 election.

They were released on November 13, 2010 and received the inauguration of President Thein Sein. During the domestic assembly election, her party LND won 43 of the 45 seats, and she was elected deputy.

For the first time in 30 years, they left Burma for a tour of Europe; She is being received in London and Paris, where she is seeking the support of the international community for the democratic process in her country. Twenty years later, in June 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

We remember the beautiful picture of “The Lady” by Luke Besson.

Clashes broke out between the military and separatists from the Kachin and Rohingya ethnic minorities (following the murder of a young Buddhist). They refuse to condemn atrocities against Muslims and the military’s genocide.

The same Anglo-Saxon media and NGOs that made him an icon in the fight against military dictatorship and human rights tarnish his image, forgetting that the military has all the power and that they can imprison her at any time, thus hindering her return to democracy.

They also forget that the recommendations they have made in favor of reinstating the Rohingyas into their rights will be in 2017 at an advisory commission on the situation in Rakhine State, chaired by Kofi Annan. The military withdrew the file after the Muslim minority attacked the police station.

Michael Scarbonchi