Burmese freedom fighter ''Aung San Suu Kyi is known as the Gandhi of Burma because of her strong determination to establish democratic government again in Burma.

She studied in Delhi University where she got to know about the Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence resistance.

At that time Burma was following Democratic form of Government but in few years a military head won elections and started dictatorship in Burma . As Aung San Suu Kyi got to know about that she started following Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence.

Suu Kyi helped in creation of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in 1988 and went on for extensive campaign tours throughout the country. Her commitment to nonviolence came to the first once when during one of her tours she was confronted by soldiers. When the soldiers threatened to shoot Aung San Suu Kyi, she asked her companions to step aside and walked up to and past the rifles aimed at her.

She received Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

She also won the First Democratic election after her struggle to get Democratic government back into work, The election was conducted on 15th Nov. 2015 and she won it from her NLD party.

Aung San Suu Kyi (born June 19, 1945 in Yangon, Burma) is a human rights activist, nobel peace prize winner, and the current State Counsellor of Myanmar. She brought democracy to her country with nonviolence. She is the leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma and a famous prisoner. She has been on house arrest multiple times. Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize in 1990, and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992, she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru peace prize.

She has wanted to become the prime minister and the president of Myanmar, but she has had many challenges. There are many rules in Myanmar about who can become a president, Suu Kyi was not able to be a president due to these rules. Instead, she became the State Counsellor of Myanmar, a job that is even higher than being president.

She is sometimes called Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Daw is not part of her name, but a title for older women. This name shows respect to her.