***** In 1990, *****
The military junta called a general election,

which the National League for Democracy won decisively.

Under normal circumstances, she would have assumed the

office of Prime Minister. Instead, the results were

nullified, and the military refused to hand over power.

This resulted in an international outcry and partly led to

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's winning the Sakharov Prize that

year and the Nobel Peace Prize the following year in 1991.

Her sons Alexander and Kim accepted the Nobel Peace Prize

on her behalf.Daw Aung San Suu Kyi used the Nobel Peace

Prize's 1.3 million USD prize money to establish a health

and education trust for the Burmese people.



The military government released Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from

house arrest in July 1995 but made it clear that if she

left the country to visit her family in the United

Kingdom, it would not allow her return. When her husband,

Michael Aris, a British citizen, was diagnosed with

prostate cancer in 1997, the Burmese government denied him

an entry visa. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remained in Burma, and

never again saw her husband, who died in March 1999. She

remains separated from their children, who live in the

United Kingdom.



The junta repeatedly prevented Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from

meeting with her party supporters and, in September 2000,

it put her under house arrest again. On 6 May 2002,

following secret confidence-building negotiations led by

the United Nations, the government released her; a

government spokesman said that she was free to

move "because we are confident that we can trust each

other".Daw Aung San Suu Kyi proclaimed "a new dawn for the

country". However on 30 May 2003, a government-sponsored

mob attacked her caravan in the northern village of

Depayin, murdering and wounding many of her supporters.

Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene with the help of her

driver, Ko Kyaw Soe Lin, but was arrested upon reaching

Ye-U. The government imprisoned her at Insein Prison in

Yangon. After she underwent a hysterectomy in September

2003, the government again placed her under house arrest

in Yangon.



***** In March 2004, *****
Razali Ismail, UN special envoy to Myanmar,

met with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Ismail resigned from his

post the following year, partly because he was denied

re-entry to Myanmar on several occasions.



***** On 28 May 2004, *****
The United Nations Working Group for

Arbitrary Detention rendered an Opinion (No. 9 of 2004)

that her deprivation of liberty was arbitrary, as being in

contravention of Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of

Human Rights 1948, and requested that the authorities in

Burma set her free, but the authorities have so far

ignored this request.



***** On 28 November 2005,*****
The National League for Democracy

confirmed that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest would

be extended for yet another year. Many Western countries,

as well as the United Nations, have expressed their

disapproval of this latest extension.




***** On 20 May 2006, *****
Ibrahim Gambari, UN Undersecretary-General

(USG) of Department of Political Affairs, met with

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the first visit by a foreign

official since 2004.Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest

term was set to expire 27 May 2006, but the Burmese

government extended it for another year, flouting a direct

appeal from U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan to U Than

Shwe. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi continues to be imprisoned

under the 1975 State Protection Act (Article 10 b), which

grants the government the power to imprison persons for up

to five years without a trial.



***** On 9 June 2006,*****
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was hospitalised with

severe diarrhea and weakness, as reported by a UN

representative for National Coalition Government of the

Union of Burma. Such claims were rejected by Major-General

Khin Yi, the national police chief of Myanmar.



***** On 11 November 2006, *****
USG Gambari, who was undertaking a

mission to Myanmar for four days to encourage greater

respect for human rights there, met with

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. According to Gambari,

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi seems in good health but she wishes

to meet her doctor more regularly.UN Secretary-General Ban

Ki-moon has urged the Burmese government to release

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as it released 2,831 prisoners,

including 40 political prisoners, on 1 January 2007.



***** On 18 January 2007, *****
The state-run paper The New Light of

Myanmar accused Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of tax evasion for

spending her Nobel Prize money outside of the country. The

accusation followed the defeat of a US-sponsored United

Nations Security Council resolution condemning Myanmar as

a threat to international security.


***** On 25 May 2007,*****
Myanmar extended Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's

detention for yet another year which would keep her

confined to her residence for a fifth straight year.