Aung San Suu Kyi is the winner of the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation, 2009. She is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991). The first and incumbent State Counsellor (a position akin to a prime minister leader) of Myanmar, she is also the leader of the National League for Democracy and played a vital role in the state's transition from military junta to partial democracy. Of late, she has attracted considerable criticism for having enabled the state-perpetrated genocide of Rohingyas.