FILE PHOTO: Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi arrives for an early vote ahead of the November 8 general election in Naypyitaw, Myanmar October 29, 2020. REUTERS/Thar Byaw
(Reuters) -Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent 15 years under house arrest in the struggle to bring democracy to Myanmar, has been detained along with other leaders of her political party in a military coup.
Beloved in Myanmar as "the Lady", Suu Kyi fulfilled the dreams of millions when her party won a landslide election in 2015 that established the Southeast Asian nation’s first civilian government in half a century.
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