Learn more about her activism and political career. She held the title of state counselor, a powerful position created for her, from 2016 to 2021. Myanmars military seized power of the Southeast Asian country in a coup on Monday, after detaining the countrys civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and numerous other top government figures. More than 1,200 civilians have been killed by security forces, according to a local monitoring group cited by the United Nations, which the ruling military has accused of bias. Aung San Suu Kyi, human rights activist and opposition leader whose party, the National League for Democracy, came to power in Myanmar after the 2015 elections. Myanmar has been paralysed by protests, strikes and violence since the military takeover, with the ruling military struggling to govern and facing armed resistance from militias and ethnic minority rebels allied with a shadow government that it calls "terrorists". He said demands on Myanmar made at last week's Asian summits were "found to be suspicious of violating the images of Asean's solidarity".
His rebuttal was delivered at a virtual meeting on Tuesday of Asean auditors. Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial Monday, more than four months after the country's military seized power in a coup. General Soe Win rejected the allegation of non-compliance and said the April agreement with Asean had been contingent on it considering Myanmar's "current internal affairs", with the envoy's access to the country "based on internal stability".
In the 1990s, the Lady, as she is referred to in Myanmar, led the NLD to victory in national elections.
Myanmar's military called that a breach of Asean's code of consensus and non-interference and refused to send junior representation. Suu Kyi is the daughter of Aung San, the revered Burmese revolutionary who shepherded his country to independence from the United Kingdom in the 1940s.