U.S. Representative Joe Crowley (D-NY), along with representatives from California, Kentucky, and Illinois spearheaded legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Aung San Suu Kyi, an imprisoned Burmese leader. Kyi has been crusading to end the human rights-abusing military dictatorship in Burma since the 1980s.
In 1988, she helped form the National League for Democracy (NLD), of which she is now the general secretary. The junta has kept Suu Kyi under house arrest for 12 of the past 18 years. The junta offered her freedom if she would leave the country and give up politics, but she refused.
Suu Kyi has received more than 60 international awards for her work in Burma.
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the legislation on April 24, and President George W. Bush signed the law awarding Suu Kyi with the Gold Medal on May 6.
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