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A court in Myanmar delivers its final verdict on ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi's cases, sentencing her to seven years in prison, with an overall sentence of 33 years' imprisonment.
2022-12-30

Aung San Suu Kyi, the ousted leader of Myanmar, is sentenced to a further three years' imprisonment for "violating the state's secrets act". She is already serving 20 years on other charges.
2022-09-29

Myanmar announces that it has executed four prisoners on charges of terrorism, including Zayar Thaw, a former lawmaker under ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and Kyaw Min Yu.
2022-07-25

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi travels to The Hague where she is expected to face genocide charges against her government for the alleged crimes committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority, in what is described as one of the most-high profile international legal cases in a generation.
2019-12-7

Dublin City Councillors vote 59–2 to revoke the Freedom of the City of Dublin given to Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi for her apparent failure to protect the Rohingya minority from violence. Singer Bob Geldof returned his Freedom one month ago, protesting that Suu Kyi also held the honour.
2017-12-13

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi holds historic peace talks to end decades of ethnic conflict in the country.
2016-08-31

Myanmar's parliament approves Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and 17 other nominees to positions in the incoming government's cabinet. Which ministry each will head was not announced.
2016-03-24

With 45 percent of the Pyithu Hluttaw (House of Representatives) results announced from Sunday's election, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) moves closer to an absolute majority in the country's parliament, winning over 90 percent (135 of 149 seats) in the country's lower house. The NLD also has taken over 85 percent in the upper house and regional assemblies. The NLD needs to win more than two-thirds of seats that were contested in parliament to form Myanmar's first democratically elected government since the early 1960s.
2015-11-11

Barack Obama becomes the first sitting US President to visit Burma, meeting both Burmese President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
2012-11-19

The Myanmar government pardons 452 prisoners under an amnesty in a goodwill gesture before a visit by US President Barack Obama. State media said some of the people released were foreigners, though it remained unknown if any dissidents are among them at all. Human Rights Watch accuses the government of using strategically timed prisoner releases to appease the international community.
2012-11-15