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Aung San Suu Kyi The son has said that she “may already be dead”, warning that years of separation and Information blackout under military custody have left it due to fear of evil myanmarFormer leaders are in jail.
Kim Aris said that no one has heard about her 80-year-old mother, who is suffering from various health problems in her old age, in two years. He said, they are receiving only second-hand details and updates about his health.
Ms Suu Kyi, A Nobel Peace Prize The award winner and longtime icon of Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement has been held in solitary confinement for much of the year since the overthrow of her democratically elected government. military coup in 2021is the subject of his imprisonment One independent tv documentary, Cancelled: The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi,
In 2022, after a trial widely seen as politically motivated, Ms Suu Kyi was sentenced to 33 years in prison on multiple charges, which international rights groups have widely condemned as a sham.
Mr Aris, a British citizen who kept a low profile until a few years ago, has been meeting with various politicians and government officials in Japan as he called on foreign governments to press for Ms Suu Kyi’s release and take a stronger stance against Myanmar’s junta.
He told Reuters he had received only fragmented reports about his condition and that his legal team had not even been allowed to meet him over the past two years.
He led a protest outside Myanmar’s embassy in Tokyo, with supporters demanding Ms Suu Kyi’s release and holding posters with the word “Free” written on them. The demonstration was organized in protest of the military junta’s plan to move ahead with the December 28 elections, which critics say will be neither free nor fair and is an attempt by the military to legitimize its rule after seizing power from Ms.’s elected government. Sue’s In February 2021.
“He continues to have health problems. No one has seen him in over two years. He has not been allowed to contact his legal team, let alone his family,” Mr Aris said. “For all I know, she might already be dead.”
Mr Aris has been sharply critical of the junta’s plans to hold elections later this month – elections widely rejected by foreign governments as a sham designed to strengthen military rule. Yet he acknowledged that the procedure might still create a narrow opportunity for some relief in his mother’s treatment.
“I think (Myanmar junta leader) Min Aung Hlaing has his own agenda when it comes to my mother. If he wants to use her to appease the general public by releasing her or putting her under house arrest before or after the elections, at least that will be something,” she said.
Mr Aris, who has been actively campaigning for his mother’s release, previously told Independent That’s Ms. Sue suffering from a worsening heart condition And asked to consult a cardiologist from outside the jail.
He said in his appeal that he needed immediate medical attention to be released from “cruel and life-threatening” detention.
An army spokesman told state media at the time that his health was “good”, dismissing reports about his health as “fabrications”.
Ms Suu Kyi is believed to be being held in solitary confinement in the capital, Naypyidaw. He was detained by the army several times and spent some time 2021 Spent 15 years mainly under house arrest before the coup. Myanmar’s military is known to release prisoners as amnesty to commemorate national holidays and important events.
He was released from earlier house arrest in 2010, just days after the elections. At the time, he was arrested in 2009 after an American visitor stayed at his home in Yangon, which authorities deemed a violation of his previous detention conditions.
Mr Aris said: “Because of the upcoming elections the military is trying to do, which we all know is completely inappropriate, and so far from being independent that it would be ridiculous if it weren’t so regrettable, I need to use this small window of opportunity.”
Ms Suu Kyi, the daughter of Myanmar’s independence hero General Aung San, was chosen to lead the country’s civilian government after her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), won a landslide victory in the 2015 general election.
A major turning point in his political career came in 2017, when Myanmar’s military launched a brutal crackdown against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state. His global reputation suffered serious damage after he failed to condemn the military and was widely criticized for Defending Myanmar against allegations of genocide, Which also includes the International Court of Justice in 2019.
Despite this, the NLD won another landslide victory in the November 2020 general election, leaving the military politically marginalized before the coup.
Mr Aris acknowledged that global attention had waned following his mother’s appearance at the international tribunal in The Hague, but insisted she was “not complicit” in what the United Nations described as a genocidal campaign by the military against the Rohingya in 2016-17.
“In the past, when my mother was held in high regard by the international community, it was very difficult for people to ignore what was happening in Burma. But since her position was weakened by the crisis in Rakhine, that is no longer the case,” she said, using the country’s former name.