Rare Suu Kyi phone call to son signals shift in Myanmar junta strategy

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,…

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Rare Suu Kyi phone call to son signals shift in Myanmar junta strategy

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