Maha Thiri Thudhamma Khin Kyi was a Burmese politician and diplomat, best known for her marriage to the country's leader, Aung San, with whom she had four children, including Aung San Suu Kyi.
13 Facts About Khin Kyi
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Khin Kyi served as the Minister of Social Welfare and MP of the Pyithu Hluttaw for Lanmadaw Township.
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Khin Kyi was born on 16 April 1912 in Myaungmya during the British Raj to parents Pho Hnyin and Phwa Su.
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Khin Kyi grew up in Myaungmya, an Irrawaddy delta town, the eighth of 10 brothers and sisters.
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Khin Kyi attended the American Baptist Mission-run Kemmendine Girls School in Rangoon, and continued her tertiary education at the Teachers' Training College in Moulmein.
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Khin Kyi then went on to become a teacher at the National School in her hometown, before deciding to give it up altogether to join the nursing profession against her mother's wishes, following the footsteps of her two elder sisters, who were at the time, training to become nurses.
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Khin Kyi moved to Rangoon and joined the staff of the Rangoon General Hospital as a nursing probationer.
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Khin Kyi first met Aung San in 1942, when he was recovering from injuries sustained during the Burma Campaign, at the Rangoon General Hospital, where she served as a senior nurse.
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Khin Kyi served as a member of parliament in the country's first post-independence government from 1947 to 1948, representing Rangoon's Lanmadaw Township, the constituency that her husband had won.
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In 1960, Khin Kyi was appointed as Burma's Ambassador to India, and became the country's first woman to serve as the head of a diplomatic mission.
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Khin Kyi died in Rangoon on 27 December 1988, at the age of 76, after suffering a severe stroke.
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Khin Kyi's funeral, held on 2 January 1989, was attended by over 200,000 people, despite the presence of military trucks which intervened to try to prevent this gathering.
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Khin Kyi is buried at Kandawmin Garden Mausolea on Shwedagon Pagoda Road in Yangon.