China has rejected criticism from the United Nations’ independent human rights expert on Myanmar, but Kelley E. Currie is standing by her assessment that Beijing is the conflict’s “decisive enabler”—and challenging Chinese officials to provide evidence proving otherwise.
Kim Aris, the son of Myanmar’s detained pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, believes Myanmar’s military authorities withheld two books sent by Britain’s King Charles III for months before delivering them to his mother, he told Myanmar Global Media (MGM) in an exclusive interview on Tuesday, October 27.
Myanmar’s military-backed authorities may have allowed detained pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to speak with her son, Kim Aris, for the first time in more than five years because of mounting international pressure and growing challenges facing the military leadership, according to a former close associate.
Kim Aris, the son of Myanmar’s detained pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has warned against allowing the military-backed government to use rare photographs of his mother receiving gifts from Britain’s King Charles III to create an illusion of normality or gain international legitimacy.
The United Nations should expand humanitarian assistance through channels outside Myanmar’s military control and pursue an arms embargo to help protect civilians, the UN’s human rights expert on Myanmar told Myanmar Global Media.
In the letter dated September 22, Aris expressed deep concern about his mother’s continued isolation, saying her family has had no direct contact with her and has not been informed of her whereabouts.
During the exclusive interview with Myanmar Global Media at Forum 2000, Kim Aris said, his mother, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, still has strong international support.
Myanmar’s pro-democracy activists received international recognition in Prague on Sunday evening, with one of the honorees imprisoned at home—a stark illustration of the cost of peaceful resistance to military rule.
An airstrike by Myanmar’s military, known as the Tatmadaw, on the Arakan Army-controlled town of Kyauktaw in western Rakhine state has killed 46 people and injured more than 50, according to local sources.