Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was born on 19 June 1945. Her father,

General Aung San, negotiated Burma's independence from the

United Kingdom in 1947, and was assassinated by his rivals

in the same year. She grew up with her mother,Daw Khin

Kyi, and two brothers, Aung San Lin and Aung San U in

Rangoon(Yangon). Aung San Lin drowned in a pool accident

when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was eight years old.Daw Aung San

Suu Kyi was educated in English Catholic schools for much

of her childhood in Burma.

Daw Khin Kyi gained prominence as a political figure in

the newly-formed Burmese government.Daw Khin Kyi was

appointed as Burmese ambassador to India in 1960, and Daw

Aung San Suu Kyi followed her there, graduating from Lady

Shri Ram College in New Delhi in 1964.

She continued her education at St Hugh's College, Oxford,

obtaining a B.A. degree in Philosophy, Politics, and

Economics in 1967. After graduation she continued her

education in New York, and worked for the United Nations.

In 1972,Daw Aung San Suu Kyi married Michael Aris, a

scholar of Tibetan culture, living abroad in Bhutan.

The following year she gave birth to her first son,

Alexander, in London; and in 1977 she had her second

child, Kim.