NewzThe military deposed Suu Kyi in February 2021, jailing the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and triggering an ongoing civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people on all sides. 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. BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the International Committee of the Red Cross’ representative in the capital on Monday, the military-backed government said, a rare moment of contact with the outside world for…
This earlier handout photo, released by the Myanmar Military Information Team, shows Aung San Suu Kyi (centre) speaking with military officials at an undisclosed location. (AFP pic)BANGKOK: Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday, a spokeswoman for the Myanmar government said, amid concerns over the health of the 81-year-old.The Nobel Prize winner has been in detention since February 2021 when Myanmar's military ousted an elected civilian government led by her in a dawn coup, plunging the impoverished Southeast Asian nation into turmoil.Since then, Suu Kyi's exact whereabouts and health conditions have been difficult to determine, with no foreign leader or envoy having publicly met her.On Monday, Suu Kyi met with Arnaud de Baecque, Resident Representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Myanmar in the capital Naypyitaw, government spokeswoman Khine Khine Soe said in a message via Telegram.The ICRC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.In late April, following a military-engineered election that allowed former junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to become Myanmar's president and amid growing international pressure, authorities said that she had been moved to house arrest. The meeting came amid concerns over the health of the 81-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has been in detention since the February 2021 coup
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