Aung San Suu Kyi was award a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her
non-violent protests and efforts to support democracy in Bruma.
On Saturday, she finally accepted her prize in Norway more than
20 years later. Suu Kyi was frist placed under house arrest in
July 1989 after her National League for Democracy party won 59%
of a general election, but Burma's military junta nullified the
results. Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest and spent 15 of
the next 25 years under house arrest at different times, and
clashing with the Burmese government. In 1991, she was awarded
the Nobel Peace prize for advocating democracy and non-violent
protest in Burma. ABC News included the original news broadcast
from when she was awarded the Nobel prize: Suu Kyi was scared if
she left Burma during the fleeting moments she wasn't under
house arrest that she wouldn't be allowed to return. "Often
during my days of house arrest it felt as though I were no
longer a part of the real world," Suu Kyi said in Norway on
Saturday. She also used