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Daw Suu Unreleased Photos
Posted 6/17/2010 at 8:18 PM by Shannon S
Check out these great photos in honor of Daw Suu's birthday Saturday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/jun/17/aung-san-suu-kyi-photographs

Peace & Action,
SS


Aung San Suu Kyi’s Burmese passport, issued in New York on 9 December 1970. She refused to get a British passport - though she was entitled to one, being married to the British academic Michael Aris. It was and still is illegal in Burma to have dual nationality
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection


New Year’s Day, 1972, Chelsea registry office in London. Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael Aris marry, aged 26 and 25 respectively
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection


Aung San Suu Kyi at her wedding reception, following a Buddhist blessing at a family friend’s London home
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection


Aung San Suu Kyi on the snowy slopes of a mountain in Bhutan in 1971. Further up the hill, at Taktsang temple, Michael had proposed to her
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection


The future Nobel laureate riding a mule up a mountain in Bhutan, 1971
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection


Her husband-to-be, Michael Aris, riding a yak in Bhutan, where he was a tutor to the royal family, 1971
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection


Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother, Daw Khin Kyi, meets her grandson, Alexander, for the first time on a family visit to Rangoon. Michael Aris stands at the back. 1974
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection


A family picnic in Grantown-on-Spey. Aung San Suu Kyi with her husband (with the beard) and two sons Alexander and Kim. The woman in the back wearing the headscarf is Mathané Fend, a famous pre-war singer who was Aung San Suu Kyi's most trusted friend and confidante, her 'emergency aunt'
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection


1970/1980 on the lawn of her father-in-law’s house in Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, Aung San Suu Kyi plays with her two sons, Alexander (in the braces) and Kim
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection


Aung San Suu Kyi’s husband, Michael Aris, an academic and specialist in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, in his study at St John's College, Oxford
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection


From 1973 to 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi devoted her time and energy to motherhood in Oxford where her husband was an academic
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection


Having a barbecue on a family holiday to the Norfolk Broads in the early 1980s
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
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Alan C wrote:
These are amazing Shannon! Thanks for finding them.
posted 6/17/2010 at 11:08 PM
Penpa D wrote:
Priceless!
posted 6/17/2010 at 11:54 PM
Dawn E wrote:
thank you SO much for these photos -- she is such a hero to me!
posted 6/18/2010 at 10:01 AM
Penpa D wrote:
I love these pictures so much I had to make it convenient for everyone to see it here if you are too lazy to click the link.

Thanks Shannon!
posted 6/18/2010 at 2:46 PM
Jen C wrote:
Shannon,
thank you so much for sharing these. It is crazy to think that this was before everything happened. To think about how she progressed from being a free and normal person, to a person that has been under house arrest for about 2 decades because she holds the whole faith of a people by merely remaining presence. Crazy to comprehend.
posted 6/22/2010 at 1:40 PM
Kate C wrote:
These are truely a treasure. It is like we all get to be part of her life, just a little bit. And it reminds us all what she gave up to stand with her people.
posted 6/23/2010 at 8:56 AM
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