Aung San Suu Kyi, (, , ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese
stateswoman and
president of the
National League for Democracy (NLD) in
Myanmar. In the
1990 general election, the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained under
house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010, becoming one of the world's most prominent political prisoners.