Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi meets Red Cross official, government says
The Nobel Peace Prize winner has been in detention since February 2021, when an elected civilian government she led was ousted by Myanmar's military in a dawn coup.
Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Monday, following years of uncertainty surrounding her health and whereabouts. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been under detention since February 2021 when the military ousted an elected civilian government led by her, plunging the Southeast Asian nation into instability.
Prior to this meeting, no foreign dignitary had publicly interacted with Suu Kyi, whose location and condition remained unknown. On Monday, Suu Kyi corresponded with Arnaud de Baecque, the ICRC's resident representative in Myanmar's capital, Naypyitaw, as confirmed by government spokeswoman Khine Khine Soe via Telegram.
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