Aung San Suu Kyi was born on June 19, 1945 in Rangoon, now known as Yangon. She grew up with her mother and two brothers; her father was assassinated by his rivals in 1947. Her brother, Aung San Lin, died at the age of eight after drowning in an ornamental lake on the land of their house. After the death, the family moved to Inya Lake where they met people with different political views, backgrounds and religions. She attended English Methodist High School for most of her childhood in Burma. In New Delhi, she studied at a religious foundation at Jesus and Mary School before earning a diploma in politics from Lady Shri Ram Collage in 1964. She also graduated from St Hugh's College, where she received a bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 1969. After graduating, she moved to New York with a family friend and worked at the United Nations for three years. Aung San Suu Kyi married a scholar of Tibetan culture, Dr. Michael Aris, in late 1971. A year later, she gave birth to her first son, Alexander, and their second son, Kim, was born in 1977. In 1988, she returned to Burma, initially. at t...