US EditionMyanmar junta says Suu Kyi 'in good health' after son raises alarm
Kim Aris has had no direct contact with his mother since the 2021 coup and fears for her health amid her 27-year detention sentence, with no public updates for over two years.
- With an information vacuum around Myanmar, Kim Aris, son of Aung San Suu Kyi and British national, said in Tokyo he has not heard from her in years and fears she could be dead already.
- After the 2021 military takeover, Aung San Suu Kyi, detained former leader and Nobel Peace Laureate, is serving a 27-year sentence while Aris believes she is held in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.
- Using the looming Dec 28 elections, Aris met Japanese politicians and government officials to press them to reject the junta and increase pressure for his mother’s release.
- A Myanmar junta spokesman did not respond to calls seeking comment, and the military's prisoner-release practices suggest Min Aung Hlaing could move or free Suu Kyi around the vote, Aris said.
- Warning of fading global attention, Kim Aris said, `For all I know, she could be dead already,` and urged using the brief election window to ease his mother’s plight in Myanmar.
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Myanmar's military government has denied reports of Aung San Suu Kyi's possible death, insisting she is in good health, amid skepticism from human rights activists and the opposition, who point out that she has been detained and cut off from the outside world for over two years without any verifiable evidence.
Myanmar junta says Suu Kyi 'in good health' after son raises alarm
Myanmar’s junta said on Tuesday that detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “in good health,” a day after her son told Reuters he has received little information about the 80-year-old’s condition and fears she could die without him knowing.
"No one has seen it for more than two years," says Aung San Suu Kyi's son. There has been no news of the state of health of the Nobel Peace Prize winner since Burma's military government's information blockade.
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