BANGKOK: The Myanmar military said on Tuesday that the health of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was “good”, contradicting fears expressed by her son that she may already be dead.
Suu Kyi’s youngest son, Kim Aris, had said in a recent interview that he had had no contact with his mother since the military seized power in a coup in February 2021.
“For all I know, she could be dead,” he told Reuters news agency, reported German news agency dpa.
Aung San Suu Kyi, now over 80 years old, has been held in detention since the coup and is serving multiple prison sentences handed down by military-controlled courts.
The conditions of her detention and access to medical care remain unclear, with independent verification impossible due to tight restrictions imposed by the junta.
Suu Kyi is Myanmar’s most prominent democratic leader and an international symbol of resistance to military rule.
Following the 2021 coup, in which the military overturned the results of a general election won overwhelmingly by the NLD, Suu Kyi was arrested and later convicted on a series of charges widely condemned by international observers as politically motivated. She has not been seen in public since her detention. – BERNAMA-dpa
