Aung San Suu Kyi — "India had drawn away from us in our very difficult days. But I had faith in the …"
India had drawn away from us in our very difficult days. But I had faith in the lasting friendship between the two countries based on lasting friendship between our two peoples.
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Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace laureate (1991) who spent 15 years under house arrest before her party's 2015 election win.
Closely associated with
Václav Havel (Czech dissident-turned-president) and Nelson Mandela (the moral-leader template she was often compared to).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar military commander-in-chief — deposed Suu Kyi in the 2021 coup and continues to detain her — the institutional military power her movement spent decades resisting.
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During her visit to India, expressing disappointment with India's past record of supporting the military junta.