My Favorite Leader And Her Leadership Qualities 5764w

MY FAVORITE LEADER AND HER LEADERSHIP QUALITIES “The manager does things right – the leader does the right things.” A leader is one who knows that though the risk of failure may be great, they don’t give up on themselves or others. Leaders are people of exceptional character who are capable of bringing others through a crisis. All leaders share certain qualities or characteristics in balance, including:  Self - respect and respect for others  The ability to communicate effectively  Integrity & character  Having a vision, a mission, a sense of direction, and a clear set of goals.  Being grounded. Leaders have a vision of what the world around them ought to be, but they are also pragmatic.  Courage  Persistence, commitment & dedication  Humility  A sense of responsibility  Decisiveness One amongst them is Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, a living example of a good freedom fighter. Yes, Ofcourse, the Iron Woman of Myanmar is my role model. She taught me how to be very courageous in physically as well as mentally. Being a woman she is still fighting against the Myanmar government. By giving a great salute to her I start my journey towards her. “The

democracy

process

provides

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political

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social

change

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violence”

- Aung San Suu Kyi INTRODUCTION: Aung

San

Suu

Kyi, (born

Myanmar]), Myanmar opposition

June

19

1945, Rangoon,

leader, daughter of Aung

San (a

Burma

martyred

[now national

Yangon, hero

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independent Burma) and Khin Kyi (a prominent Burmese diplomat), and winner in 1991 of the Nobel Prize for Peace. NORMAL LIFE TO POLITICAL LIFE: Aung San Suu Kyi was two years old when her father, then the de facto prime minister of what would shortly become independent Burma, was assassinated. She attended schools in Burma until 1960,

when her mother was appointed ambassador to India. After further study in India, she attended the University of Oxford, where she met her future husband. She had two children and lived a rather quiet life until 1988, when she returned to Burma to nurse her dying mother. There the mass slaughter of protesters against the brutal and unresponsive rule of the military strongman U Ne Win led her to speak out against him and to begin a nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights. In July 1989 the military government of the newly named Union of Myanmar placed Suu Kyi under house arrest and held her incommunicado. The military offered to free her if she agreed to leave Myanmar, but she refused to do so until the country was returned to civilian government and political prisoners were freed. The newly formed group with which she became d, the National League for Democracy (NLD), won more than 80% of the parliamentary seats that were contested in 1990, but the results of that election were ignored by the military government (in 2010 the military government formally annulled the results of the 1990 election). Suu Kyi was freed from house arrest in July 1995. The following year she attended the NLD party congress, but the military government continued to harass both her and her party. In 1998 she announced the formation of a representative committee that she declared was the country’s legitimate ruling parliament. The military junta once again placed her under house arrest from September 2000 to May 2002. Following clashes between the NLD and pro-government demonstrators in 2003, the government returned her to house arrest. Calls for her release continued throughout the international community in the face of her sentence’s annual renewal, and in 2009 a United Nations body declared her detention illegal under Myanmar’s own law. In 2008 the conditions of her house arrest were somewhat loosened, allowing her to receive some magazines as well as letters from her children. In May 2009, shortly before her most recent sentence was to be completed, Suu Kyi was arrested and charged with breaching the of her house arrest after an intruder (a U.S. citizen) entered her house compound and spent two nights there. In August she was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison, though the sentence immediately was reduced to 18 months, and she was allowed to serve it while remaining under house arrest. At the time of her conviction, the belief was widespread both within and outside of Myanmar that this latest ruling was designed to prevent Aung from participating in multiparty parliamentary elections (the first since 1990) scheduled for 2010. This suspicion became reality through a series of new election laws enacted in March 2010: one prohibited individuals from any participation in elections if they had been convicted of a crime (as she had been in 2009), and another disqualified anyone who was married to a foreign national from running for office (her husband was British). In of Suu Kyi, the NLD refused to re under these new laws (as was required) and was disbanded. The government parties faced little opposition in the Nov. 7, 2010, election and easily won an overwhelming majority of legislative seats amid widespread

allegations of voter fraud. Aung was released from house arrest six days after the election and vowed to continue her opposition to military rule. PERIODS UNDER DETENTION: 1989: Placed under house arrest in Rangoon under martial law that allows for detention without charge or trial for three years. 1990: Despite detention of Suu Kyi, NLD wins election with 82% of parliamentary seats. SLORC refuses to recognize results. 1991: Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. 10 July 1995: Released from house arrest. 23 September 2000: Placed under house arrest. 6 May 2002: Released after 19 months. 30 May 2003: Arrested following the Depayin massacre, she was held in secret detention for more than three months before being returned to house arrest. 25 May 2007: House arrest extended by one year despite a direct appeal from U.N. SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan to General Than Shwe. 24 October 2007: Reached 12 years under house arrest, solidarity protests held at 12 cities around the world. 27 May 2008: House arrest extended for another year, which is illegal under both international law and Burma's own law. 11 August 2009: House arrest extended for 18 more months because of "violation" arising from the May 2009 tres incident. 13 November 2010: Released from house arrest. 18 Jan 2012: Suu Kyi formally ed to contest a Pyithu Hluttaw (lower house) seat in the Kawhmu Township constituency in special parliamentary elections to be held on 1 April 2012. CONCLUSION: The role that Suu Kyi will play in the future of democracy in Burma remains a subject of much debate. Suu Kyi has received vocal from most of the countries in the world. She has won numerous international awards including the Noble Prize, the Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament and the United States Presidential Medal of freedom. She has called on people around the world to the struggle for freedom in Burma, saying “Please use your liberty to promote ours”. The government always urged her to her family abroad, but she knew that she would not be allowed to return. This separation she regarded as one of the sacrifices she had had to make in order to work for a free Burma. Finally, she come back to fight for the people of Myanmar against the government with a new strength.