Aung San Suu Kyi Leadership Analysis

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MEJ RASMAN BIN RAMLAI (146-16)
FRAMEWORK OF ESSAY PLAN FOR EX PANGLIMA SILAM MCSC 45/2016

THE LEADERSHIP ANALYSIS OF AUNG SAN SUU KYI

INTRODUCTION
1. Leadership is one of the most important skill elements that show how good leaders achieve their goal. It is about the ability to lead, inspire and develop those peoples around with their skills and techniques until having the successful achievement. Therefore, the selected leader that will be discussed through this paper is the famous and great Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar’s political leader presently. It is a great opportunity to know better about Aung San Suu Kyi towards her leadership style and techniques by struggling and also sacrificed her entire life to bring Myanmar from military regime …show more content…

Aung San Suu Kyi was born on June 19, 1945 in Yangon, Myanmar that a country traditionally known as Burma. Her father, General Aung San formerly served under the prime minister of British Burma that was assassinated in 1947. Her mother, Daw Khin Kyi, was appointed as ambassador to India in 1960. Her education background is philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1967. She married with Michael Aris a scholar in Bhutanese studies in 1972. They had two sons which are Alexander and Kim. They spent the 1970s and 80s in England, United States and India.
5. However, in 1988, Suu Kyi returned to Burma to care for her dying mother and her life took a dramatic turn. Then, it was the time of how her political life was began as a leader of National League of Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar against a military junta. However, in 1989, the government placed Suu Kyi under house arrest and she spent 15 of the next 21 years in custody and released in 2010. She was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991 and also received the Rafto prize in 1990. In December 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to award Suu Kyi with the Congressional Gold Medal. Presently, she was appointed as a State’s Counsellor of Myanmar in 2016 at aged 71 years old with the new President Thein

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