Aung San Suu Kyi - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Aung San Suu Kyi Index / People Transcripts Daniel Russel ...length with Thein Sein, with Aung San Suu Kyi , and with Min Aung Hlaing, the the... ...Thein Sein, and then subsequently for Aung San Suu Kyi to come to Washington. I was prett... Derek Mitchell ...I understand you met, or got to know, Aung San Suu Kyi [“Daw Suu”] in the 1990s. Is tha... ...he didn't know. I first interacted with Aung San Suu Kyi —not individually, but just he... ...was. So, I go to it, and it was for Aung San Suu Kyi , and out on the table they had a book... ...with the broader realm,” and I followed Aung San Suu Kyi and was quite interested in what wa... ...legal and was not allowed to contend. Aung San Suu Kyi was still under house arrest. She wa... ...read that and saw that he also met with Aung San Suu Kyi that summer and paid homage to he... ...summer and paid homage to her father [ Aung San ], who's the iconic leader of Burma... ...National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi “—and allow them to run in election... ...the NLD. They continue to talk to Aung San Suu Kyi . But the one very important thin... ...and also a complication that we had in Aung San Suu Kyi [laughs], because she was the one wh... ...done. There was a meeting between Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein, which I've read wa... ...just make it easier. And we knew that Aung San Suu Kyi had their ear, so if she was unhapp... ...a unique interest in Burma and in Aung San Suu Kyi , personally, and still does. So... ...most people in public—they saw it as Aung San Suu Kyi and the military, democracy versu... ...when he's delivering a letter to Aung San Suu Kyi —and I'm paraphrasing here, but what h... ...the Burmans who dominate the country. Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD do terribly in Rakhin... ...but he used to say his idol was Aung San Suu Kyi , that he idolized her, like many did... ...affection and, again, appreciation for Aung San Suu Kyi and what was happening there... ...fast-forward. In September of 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi visits the United States, and i... ...My view was that we had an election, Aung San Suu Kyi is going to join the government. Sh... ...I discussed it. We had a meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi , the democracy leader of Burma, whic... ...other and banter a little bit. On the Aung San Suu Kyi meeting, Daw Suu wanted to have ... Show more... Elizabeth Phu ...and the most famous one, of course, is Aung San Suu Kyi . And then, in the spring of 2008, w... ...were having with Burma at that time and Aung San Suu Kyi had been released. One of th... ...Council staff was actually meeting Aung San Suu Kyi in her home in Yangon, the same hom... ...for example. But we were in Aung San Suu Kyi 's home, and on that trip we wer... ...the sense of hope when you met with Aung San Suu Kyi . How did the administration balanc... ...this is great, or, Yay, we've arrived. Aung San Suu Kyi is free. But there were still thing... ...to the deliberateness and working with Aung San Suu Kyi , and making sure that the militar... ...that we were still in dialogue with Aung San Suu Kyi . I wanted to ask what some of th... Show more... Rumana Ahmed ...they want to be supportive of Aung San Suu Kyi . But at the same time, they als... ...specific things to get to ask for with Aung San Suu Kyi , which Ben did bring up in meeting... ...the fact that, like, We support you, Aung San Suu Kyi , but we also need you to be a leade... Michael Posner ...League for Democracy] people from Aung San Suu Kyi 's party, political leader. Let's get ... ...are we doing this, it's unreasonable. Aung San Suu Kyi had her own list, but they were al... ...a military government, even though Aung San Suu Kyi has now won two elections. The syste... Thant Myint-U ...Their biggest and most prominent foe, Aung San Suu Kyi , was under house arrest. And they ha... ...were willing even to, not just release Aung San Suu Kyi , but deal with her, and engage wit... ...insurgencies, as well as opponents like Aung San Suu Kyi . And they were willing to cede ... ...facing a historic opportunity. And when Aung San Suu Kyi had been, not just freed, but the... ...other follow-up is to ask about Aung San Suu Kyi , who you've mentioned several times a... ...hand, one cannot deny the importance of Aung San Suu Kyi historically, politically to this ver... ...there without giving up in any way on Aung San Suu Kyi or withdrawing support for her, bu... ...August of 2011 when Thein Sein met with Aung San Suu Kyi , when Aung San Suu Kyi agreed to mee... ...Sein met with Aung San Suu Kyi, when Aung San Suu Kyi agreed to meet with Thein Sein. An... ...faster than anyone anticipated. It was Aung San Suu Kyi making a historic compromise an... ...to the democracy movement and to Aung San Suu Kyi herself. I think for the army general... ...months ago leading these reforms, and Aung San Suu Kyi at that time playing really just a... ...it had been the place where General Aung San —Aung San Suu Kyi's father and the her... ...been the place where General Aung San— Aung San Suu Kyi 's father and the hero of the Burmes... ...focused on in the West, celebrated for Aung San Suu Kyi 's victory. There was a quote from yo... ...wanted that final kind of moment where Aung San Suu Kyi 's in power and a kind of democrati... ...worked on. Then you had, of course, Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy... ...And you would have left only Aung San Suu Kyi and the democracy movement, the ethni... ...in any way betraying or moving against Aung San Suu Kyi , and on supporting this interna... ...the back of military rule and to see Aung San Suu Kyi coming into power. But, in a way, ... Show more... Samantha Power ...regime was allowing, for example, Aung San Suu Kyi , the longtime human right... Kenneth Roth ...to facilitate reconciliation. And look, Aung San Suu Kyi 's in power and isn't it great. It was... ...army giving up its power. And so, yes, Aung San Suu Kyi was the figurehead. She was the d... ...that was supposedly operating under Aung San Suu Kyi . Then to top it all off, Aung San Su... ...San Suu Kyi. Then to top it all off, Aung San Suu Kyi defended them, and ran off to The Hagu... ...hash of the whole thing. And so now Aung San Suu Kyi is back under house arrest. She'... ...part of it was probably guidance from Aung San Suu Kyi , who had her own personal ambitions... ...Democracy, and its very narrow focus on Aung San Suu Kyi . It's focused on the Bamar majority t... ...that has kind of taken the lead with Aung San Suu Kyi in prison. But this has been a... Show more... Harold Hongju Koh ...[laughs] to him, “Do you think that Aung San Suu Kyi spent her whole life in the embassy? D... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Russia Russia go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the Veterans Veterans