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Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be moved to house arrest, state media says

the Guardian·Reuters·about 1 month ago
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Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be moved to house arrest, state media reported on Thursday, more than five years after the military ousted the civilian government she led and jailed the Nobel laureate. Suu Kyi , 80, has been detained by the junta since and her whereabouts have been unclear amid a deadly civil war that was triggered by the February 2021 coup that has engulfed much of the impoverished south-east Asian nation. The state-run MRTV reported that “the remaining portion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s sentence has been commuted to be served at a designated residence,” using an honorific for the veteran politician. State media also broadcast a photograph of Suu Kyi, seated on a wooden bench and flanked by two uniformed personnel – the first public image of her in years. At the United Nations in New York, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric welcomed the news. “We’ve just seen the reports,” he said.…

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