![]() ![]() The new family later settled in Oxford - where Suu Kyi studied and worked in the oriental department at the Bodleian Library. ![]() From 1972 until 1988, Suu Kyi's life revolved largely around academia and motherhood, punctuated by visits back to Burma.Īt first she joined her husband in Bhutan where he was employed by the government of the tiny Himalayan kingdom. ![]() The couple had met as students in the mid-Sixties through Suu Kyi's guardians in England, the Gore-Booth family (the late Lord Gore-Booth was British ambassador in Burma during the Fifties and British High Commissioner in India during the Sixties). In 1972 she married a British academic, Michael Aris (now a specialist in the study of Tibetan peoples). No stranger to the world of politics, she later worked for the UN in New York. It was the Swinging Sixties, but her student days were full of gentle propriety: she drank alcohol just once, and worked hard. Suu Kyi, meanwhile, finished her school education in Delhi then entered Oxford where she studied PPE at St Hugh's College. The same house in which, years later, Suu Kyi was held in enforced seclusion under house arrest. She retired shortly afterward and chose to distance herself from politics, living in semi-seclusion at her home on University Avenue in Rangoon. After the coup which brought military rule to Burma (under General Ne Win) in 1962, Khin Kyi remained in Delhi. ![]()
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