Twenty one years later, Aung San Suu Kyi accepts her Nobel prize

Posted on June 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

The Myanmar leader was under house arrest when she was awarded the prize in 1991. She remained under house arrest for 15 years, and when she accepted her award, said peace in her country was still some way off.

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