The son of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi said she sounded “fairly healthy” after speaking to the detained ex-democratic leader on Thursday for the first time in more than five years. Suu Kyi, 81, is under house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw, according to Myanmar authorities, where she has been sequestered since being unseated in a 2021 military coup. “She was sounding fairly healthy,” Kim Aris, who lives in the UK, said after the telephone conversation. It was the first time he had spoken to his...
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Rare Suu Kyi phone call to son signals shift in Myanmar junta strategy
Aung San Suu Kyi, the 81-year-old detained former leader of Myanmar, spoke with her son, Kim Aris, for the first time in over five years on Thursday. Aris, who resides in the UK, reported that Suu Kyi sounded "fairly healthy" during their telephone conversation.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, the 81-year-old detained former leader of Myanmar, spoke with her son, Kim Aris, for the first time in over five years on Thursday. Aris, who resides in the UK, reported that Suu Kyi sounded "fairly healthy" during their telephone conversation. She has been under house arrest in Naypyidaw since the military coup in 2021. The article suggests this rare communication may indicate a shift in the Myanmar junta's strategy.
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Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest in Naypyidaw since the 2021 military coup.
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Aung San Suu Kyi is 81 years old.
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Aung San Suu Kyi sounded "fairly healthy" during the call.
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Aung San Suu Kyi spoke to her son, Kim Aris, on Thursday for the first time in over five years.
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