Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets Harvard humanitarian award
Myanmar's State Counsellor and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been named Humanitarian of the Year by students and faculty at the Harvard Foundation. Suu Kyi was a political prisoner for 21 years (1989 to 2010) for her "non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights" in Myanmar that had been under military rule for over 49 years since 1962.