L'ascendance et la descendance de Janvier Vaillancourt

	Génération X	Aris, Michael*
	Né Père: Mère: Origine:	le 27 mars 1946 John Arundel Aris Josette Vaillancourt La Havane, Cuba
	Marié:	en 1972, il épouse Aung San Suu Kyi, fille du général Aung San un héros birman qui avait aidé son pays à obtenir son indépendance de la Grande-Bretagne en 1945.
	Sépulture:	Décédé des suites d'un cancer le 27 mars 1999, à Oxford en Angleterre.
	Enfants:	Alexander Aris Kim Aris
	Notes biographiques	Le texte qui suit est un extrait d'un article publié en page A13 du National Post, le 29 mars 1999. Le National Post cite The Daily Telegraph comme source.
		"Michael Aris, the Tibetan scholar who has died, aged 53, was the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader. (...) A don at Oxford, Dr. Aris was indeed only able to see his wife a handful of times during the past decade. Suu Kyi was in Burma, under house arrest or severely limited in her movements by Burma's State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). Dr. Aris and the couple's sons lived in England. (...) Michael Vaillancourt Aris, an identical twin, was born in Havana, Cuba, on March 27, 1946, and educated at Worth School and Durham University where he studied history. Even as a boy, he was fascinated by Buddhism. After graduating in 1967, he secured a post as private tutor to the Royal Family of Bhutan, the tiny kingdom in the Himalayas on the border of Tibet. He remained there for the next six years, becoming head of the Bhutanese government's translation department and carrying out research on Bhutanese history. Dr. Aris had met and fallen in love with Aung San Suu Kyi (...) in the 1960s when she was studying in Britain. (...) The courtship was a literary affair: Suu Kyi wrote 187 letters to Dr. Aris before they married in 1972. The next year, Dr. Aris led an expedition to Kutang and Nubri in Northern Nepal before returning to take up post-graduate studies in Tibetan at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Suu Kyi did not become embroiled in Burmese politics until 1988, when she returned to nurse her dying mother. Suddenly she found herself, as Aung San's daughter, at the forefront of a popular movement (...) to oust Ne Win's regime. (...) [A]s soon as Suu Kyi publicly criticized Ne Win, she was placed under arrest. She was sentenced without trial and barred from taking part in the forthcoming elections, set for May, 1990. Despite Suu Kyi's imprisonment, her National League for Democracy won a landslide election victory. (...) Dr. Aris, in the meantime, had been a junior research fellow at St.John's College, Oxford, from 1976 to 1989. He obtained a doctorate in Tibetan literature in 1978, and from 1980 to 1989 was research fellow in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Wolfson College, Oxford. He was a visiting professor at Harvard from 1990 to 1992. When, in 1991, Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, her sons - they had not seen her for more than two years - accepted the prize on her behalf. Later that year, Dr. Aris oversaw publication of Freedom from Fear, a collection of Suu Kyi's writings. Dr. Aris published several books, including Bhutan: the Early history of a Himalayan Kingdom (1979) and The Raven Crown: The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan (1994). He was a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and of the Royal Society for Asian affairs, and was a founding member of the Bhutan Society of the United Kingdom."
		dernière mise à jour: le 27 février 2000