Aung San Suu Kyi is in jail, so what led to the former icon of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement being sent being imprisoned?
Seen as a hero by some and a villain by others, Aung Sang Suu Kyi became an icon of the pro-democracy movement before drawing international condemnation.
The daughter of Myanmar's independence hero, General Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi spent most of her early life overseas. Protesters were demanding democratic reforms to bring to an end decades of what was effectively military rule in the isolated, socialist country.But not long afterwards, the protests were crushed, and in 1989 she was placed under house arrest, which continued on and off for 15 of the next 22 years.
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