However, the military regime carried out bloody reprisals, placing her and hundreds of members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), which she had founded, under house arrest in 1989.
Chuaigh an réim mhíleata i muinín na mbeart díoltais, áfach, agus chuir siad ise agus na céadta comhalta den Léig Náisiúnta um an Daonlathas (NLD), conradh a bhunaigh sí, faoi bhraighdeanas baile sa bhliain 1989.