By ONE Liners AgencyJune 17, 2012
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi accepted her long waiting Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday in Oslo. In 1991 she was awarded the prize, 21 years ago.
The 'female Gandhi', as mentioned by many, was under house arrest for a total of 15 years in Myanmar. Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, Suu Kyi said full transformation to democracy of Myanmar was still far off.
Suu Kyi is the daughter of Oxford University-educated General Aung San who is the country's assassinated independence hero. She is now 66-year-old and said much remained to be resolved in Myanmar.
This year in April Suu Kyi was elected to parliament, after being released from house arrest in 2010. Kyi said she was confident her country's President Thein Sein wants to put Myanmar on a new path.
In 1991 her Nobel Peace Prize was accepted by her sons Kim and Alexander on her behalf. Her husband Michael Aris, an Oxford academic, was also present in the ceremony then. Aris died in 1999 after getting diagnosed with prostate cancer.
In 1992 she said of using the $1.3 million Nobel Peace Prize money in establishing education and health trust for her country people.
On Saturday she accepted the prize in presence of son Kim and late husband's identical twin brother Anthony Aris.
She thanked Norway for all the support the country with five million people played in transformation of Myanmar.
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