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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Top Stories Most Popular Photos Full Coverage Sitemap Democracy icon Suu Kyi locked up for rare Myanmar vote AFP - Monday, November 8 Send IM Story Print Democracy icon Suu Kyi locked up for rare Myanmar vote YANGON (AFP) - – A heroine trapped in her own home, Aung San Suu Kyi is an icon of Myanmar's struggle for democracy and a beacon of hope for many, but her name is not on the ballot for the first election in 20 years. The Nobel Peace Prize winner has long been a thorn in the side of the ruling generals, so fearful of the petite and softly-spoken 65-year-old's popularity that they have kept her off the political scene for the rare poll. She swept the National League for Democracy (NLD) party to a landslide win in the country's last election in 1990, winning over the crowds with her steely resolve, charisma and eloquent speeches that called for peaceful change. But the regime never accepted the result and for most of the two decades since, she has been locked up in jail or under house arrest -- only enhancing her image at home and abroad as a symbol of democracy and dignified resistance. She remains detained at her lakeside residence in Yangon, largely cut off from the outside world with just two female aides for company. The controversial decision to shun the vote has bitterly split the opposition, between those in agreement and others who saw a window of opportunity to instigate reform, albeit through a deeply flawed process. Suu Kyi herself has said she will refuse to cast a ballot and suggested her supporters consider doing the same, although she stopped short of an outright call for a voter boycott, which the junta deems a prisonable offence. But some observers see her resolve as intransigence that has contributed to Myanmar's political stalemate. "I've never questioned her integrity, I've never questioned her honesty and her courage, but I've questioned all along her strategy. I don't think she has one," said Myanmar analyst Aung Naing Oo, based in Thailand. "If she continues the way she has, she won't go anywhere." Whatever her plan, "The Lady" -- as she is widely known in Myanmar -- remains idolised by many in a country that has been repressed by military rule for almost five decades. "After 22 years since she entered politics, she has become an institution and so the public will rally around her as long as she's alive," said Maung Zarni, a Myanmar research fellow at the London School of Economics. Oxford-educated Suu Kyi entered Myanmar's political arena at a relatively late stage, after spending much of her life abroad in India and then Britain, but politics was always in her blood. The daughter of Myanmar's liberation hero General Aung San, who was assassinated in 1947, she returned to Yangon in 1988 to nurse her sick mother, as protests erupted against the military and were brutally crushed. She was quick to take on a leading role in the pro-democracy movement, petitioning the government to prepare for elections and delivering speeches to hundreds of thousands of people at the city's glittering Shwedagon Pagoda. Alarmed by the support she commanded, the generals ordered her first stint of house arrest in 1989. Her most recent stretch of forced isolation began in May 2003 after a deadly attack on her convoy by supporters of the junta. Her many years in detention have seen her live a spartan existence of early meditation, spy novels and rare chocolate treats -- said to be her only "vice" by diplomats who have been in contact with her. Her struggle for her country has also come at a high personal cost: her husband, British academic Michael Aris, died in 1999, and in the final stages of his battle with cancer the junta refused him a visa to see his wife. Suu Kyi refused to leave Myanmar to see him, certain she would never have been allowed to return. She has not seen her two sons for about a decade and has never met her grandchildren. Her youngest son Kim Aris, 33, arrived in Bangkok ahead of the election as his mother awaits possible release. Her current sentence is due to expire a week after the widely criticised polls. If she is freed, observers believe her defiant stance is unlikely to see her cooperate with an army-backed government. Many also think the generals will restrict her political activities, aware she is the only figure who is capable of unifying the opposition. "To achieve democracy the people should be united. that is very clear. It is a very plain fact," she told a mass rally at Shwedagon in August 1988. "If there is no unity of purpose we shall be unable to achieve anything at all." 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