back to Awards & NomineesThe Inspiration Awards - Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi has become an international symbol of heroic and peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.

For the Burmese people, Aung San Suu Kyi, 62, represents their best and perhaps sole hope that one day there will be an end to the country's military repression.

In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to bring democracy to Burma.

As a pro-democracy campaigner and leader of the opposition National League for Democracy party ( NLD), she has spent more than 11 of the past 18 years in some form of detention under Burma's military regime.