Aung San Suu Kyi lived a quiet life in the UK, far removed from Myanmar’s fraught politics, raising two children with her husband. She had no intention of getting into politics even when she returned to her country in 1988 to care for her dying mother. It was only after witnessing the bloody suppression of mass protests by her country’s military rulers that she realised she could not remain on the sidelines.
A year later, in the summer of 1989, she was first arrested by the military government. It was the beginning of a cycle of imprisonments, house arrests and periods of release that would come to define her life.
