believe their love for each other would help overcome the Myanmar authorities, the marriage of Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael Aris was severely tested by his house arrest. The last time Suu and Michael saw one was in 1995 when he visited her in Burma Christmas
Here is information on marriage, children, and marriage
Quick marriage made .. - Michael and Suu Kyi:
wedding Date: January 1, 1972.
First marriage:
Yes wedding ENDED: March 27, 1999, when Michael died
Did you know. ?.
In June 2012, during his first visit to the UK since 1988, Suu Kyi was finally able to visit the grave of Michael
born:
Suu Kyi: 19. June 1945 in Rangoon in Burma, now known as Yangon, Myanmar
Michael Vaillancourt Aris: March 27, 1946 in Havana, Cuba
death
Michael Aris. on his 53rd birthday, Michael died of prostate cancer, March 27, 1999 in Oxford, England
When the Myanmar authorities refused to allow Michael to visit Suu Kyi, "she refused to leave to visit her for fear she would not be allowed to return to his country. "
Source :. Seth Mydans, Liz Robbins
"Dissident Burmese is released after a long detention." NYTimes.com. . 11/13/2010
How Michael and Suu Kyi Met:
Suu Kyi and Michael met when she was studying at Oxford. Their yard was primarily by mail between Bhutan and England
Barbara Victor :. "What happened next in the life of Suu could be attributed solely to this moment in the life of a woman when she realizes she's in love as she finds it. She lacks Michael more she realized that a career in the United Nations, but prestigious, would never be as satisfying as to become his wife and the mother of his children ... in 1971, Daw Suu Kyi left Burma for leave . Stop the homes in India to visit friends, she went to Bhutan to see Michael it was during this visit that the couple decided to get married "
Source: .. Barbara Victor. The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi :. Nobel Prize and the Prisoner of Burma 02. pg. 51.
Marriage Information:
Suu and Michael were married on January 1, 1972 in a Buddhist ceremony in London, England on home of Lord and Lady Gore-Booth
"she agreed to marry Dr. Aris on the provision that he would understand that she must return to Burma if its people needed it."
Source :. "Suu Kyi's husband dies." Bbc.co.uk. 27/03/1999
Children :.
Michael and Suu Kyi have two son. Both their son live in the UK
- Alexander Aris: .. Born in 1973 in London, England
- Kim Aris :. Born in 1977 in Oxford, England
Occupations
Suu: member and leader of the opposition of the Pyithu Hluttaw for Kawhmu since May 2012. President and General Secretary of the national League for democracy since 1988. Pro-democracy leader, author, released from house arrest in November 2010, Nobel laureate peace Prize in 1991. burmacampaign.org, it has set up a "health and education trust in support of the Burmese people to use the prize money of $ 1.3 million"
It took 20 years, but Aung San Suu Kyi delivered her Nobel speech, June 16, 2012 in Oslo, Norway
Michael: .. principal investigator in Tibetan and Himalayan studies at St Antony College at Oxford University, author , speaker
Residence :.
the house of Suu is in Myanmar, formerly Burma. Its once impressive lakeside villa has become a dilapidated compound weed filled while she was under house arrest. At one point, its roof ripped off in a storm and lost power simultaneously
Quotes Suu Kyi and Michael Aris Wedding :.
Suu in a letter she wrote to Michael before their marriage: "Sometimes I am assailed by fears that circumstances and national considerations might tear us just when we are so happy in each other that separation would be a torment and yet, these fears are so futile. and without consequence: if we love and cherish each other as much as possible while we can, I'm sure that love and compassion will triumph in the end "
Source :. Aung San Suu Kyi . freedom from fear and other writings Revised Edition 1996. pg xix
Michael... "the past days alone with her [Suu] as last time, completely isolated from the world, are among my fondest memories of our years of marriage it. was wonderfully peaceful ... I was producing Christmas gifts I had brought one by one to spread them over several days. We had all the time in the world to talk of many things. I had no idea it would be the last time we would be together for the foreseeable future "
Source :. Aung San Suu Kyi. Freedom from fear and other writings. Revised Edition 1996. pgs.. xxv-xxvi
Michael :. "it was a quiet evening in Oxford, like many others, the last day of March 1988. Our son were in bed and we were read when the phone rang Suu picked up the phone to learn that her mother had suffered a severe stroke She put the phone down at once and began to pack, I sensed that our life would change forever "
Source: ... Aung San Suu Kyi freedom from fear and other writings Revised Edition pg 1996. xvii
According to close friends, Mr. Aris... was unflinchingly for the decision of his wife and never complained that she should abandon the mission and return home
Source: .. Warren Hoge. "Michael V. Aris, 53, dies; Scholarly Husband Laureate." NYTimes.com. 30/03/1999.