Aung San Suu Kyi
b. 1945 · Myanmar · Peace
Nobel Peace Prize, 1991
Fifteen years under house arrest; later a contested civilian leader.
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- Mahatma Gandhi
1869 – 1948 · Peace, Philosophy
Her 1988–2010 strategy of nonviolent resistance is explicitly Gandhian.
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