# Aung San Suu Kyi helps found the National League for Democracy Date: 1988 ## The fact On 27 September 1988 [Aung San Suu Kyi](/people/aung-san-suu-kyi) became general secretary of the newly founded [National League for Democracy](/organizations/national-league-for-democracy) after the 8888 uprising. ## Context SLORC still held the guns. She did not write a battalion order. A party founding is still a dated democratic-entry instrument. 1989 house arrest is the neighbouring detention row. 1990 election is later. Myanmar’s State Counsellor (2016–2021) was de facto civilian head under the 2008 Constitution; she did not command the Tatmadaw’s autonomous ministries, write a Bangladeshi gazette, an ICJ merits judgment, or a 2026 [Min Aung Hlaing](/people/min-aung-hlaing) amnesty. She has been detained since 1 February 2021; as of August 2026 she is under house arrest after sentence commutations, not in office. A Nobel lecture is not a clearance-operation order. An ICJ appearance is not a personal genocide conviction. A junta court sentence is not a finding that every charge was true. Allegation of a stolen 2020 count is not stored as a completed steal. A Panglong speech is not a nationwide ceasefire. A Reuters conviction is not a completed finding that the journalists planted evidence. A 2026 ICRC visit is not a release. ## Evidence and sources National League for Democracy carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed mass-party founding after 8888 is civilian-opposition entry. ## What is established and what is not Established: a 27 September 1988 NLD founding with her as general secretary, independently reported. Not established: that she commanded the uprising, or a unique later GDP coefficient from founding day. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Co-founders sat. SLORC remained in arms.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Aung San Suu Kyi helps found the National League for Democracy, not a later speech about Aung San Suu Kyi helps found the National League for Democracy. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Aung San Suu Kyi helps found the National League for Democracy on 1988-09-27 is not a licence to treat every later National League for Democracy communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Aung San Suu Kyi helps found the National League for Democracy into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She accepted the secretaryship. Co-founders sat. SLORC remained in arms. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Aung San Suu Kyi: https://factrail.ai/people/aung-san-suu-kyi ## Drivers - Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-nld-idUSKBN1L20K4 - https://www.nld-official.org/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mm-suu-nld-1988