Aung San Suu Kyi’s son asks France to help him locate mother in Myanmar

Kim Aris says he has still not heard from his mother after she was transferred to house arrest last week

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Aung San Suu Kyi’s son asks France to help him locate mother in Myanmar

The son of Myanmar’s deposed leaderAung San Suu Kyidemanded France’s help in seeking independently verified proof of his mother’s life after she was transferred to house arrest, her lawyers said.

The country’s junta chief-turned-presidentMin Aung Hlaingon Thursday ordered the 80-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner to be moved, five years after putting her into detention in a coup.

But her son, Kim Aris, says he has still not heard from his mother, who remains massively popular insideMyanmar.

“I implore France to join my call so that we may obtain independently verified proof of life, and so that her fundamental rights are guaranteed: appropriate medical care, access to her lawyers and to her family,” he wrote in a letter addressed to French PresidentEmmanuel Macron.

Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is seen talking to officials in a photo provided by the military on Thursday. Photo: Myanmar Military True News Information Team/AP

Suu Kyi’s lawyer, Francois Zimeray, said that Aris handed the letter toFrance’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot at a meeting on Tuesday.

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Source: News - South China Morning Post