The woman whom I admire for her political activities is Aung San Suu Kyi. She is the Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1991. She was born in 1945 and gained recognition as an opposition activist, striving for peace without shedding blood. She went to Delhi, where she studied political science. Then, she started her studies of political science, philosophy and economics at Oxford. After she returned to Burma, it was a turbulent period of mass protests against the government which suppressed peaceful protests by using force and killing 3,000 people. Then, she announced a “second war of independence” and despite many objections and difficulties she is still fighting for democracy in Burma. However, this task is significantly impeded by the authorities of the country because Aung San, since 2003, has been kept under house arrest that authorities called ironically “a protective detention”.
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