The Lady | | The leadership case study on Aung San Suu Kyi |

[ May 17, 2012 ]

General Aung San waves goodbye and leaves his daughter, Suu Kyi, who was then two years old, sound asleep on a lawn chair outside their house. He meets with fellow officers in the military headquarters, but moments later, three soldiers from the Army Special Forces ambush and kill him. This happened in 1947, only six months before Burma declared its independence. Back in the house, Suu Kyi was still sound asleep.
Several years later, Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris have a happy family and are residing in Oxford. This happiness does not last long, because Suu Kyi is informed of her mother's illness and she flies back home. Suu Kyi's homecoming becomes a turning point in her life. There she witnessed how the military junta slaughtered demonstrating students. Suu Kyi decides to set up a party and campaigns using Mahatma Gandhi's movement of non-violence. This movement began a long and lonely journey for one of the most courageous leaders of all time – Mother Suu.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon, Burma, on Jun 19, 1945. She was educated in Rangoon until the age of 15 and continued her studies at Delhi University when she accompanied her mother to New Delhi. She completed her BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics as at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University, and was elected Honorary Fellow in 1990.From 1969 to 1971, she was the Assistant Secretary, Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, United Nations Secretariat, New York.
In 1972, she worked as the Research Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bhutan, and got married to a British scholar Dr. Michael Aris. They both have two sons, Alexander, born in London (1973), and Kim in Oxford in 1977.
She studied at the Center of Southeast Asia Studies, Kyoto University, as a