Washington D.C. – At the U.S. congressional hearing in Washington, D.C., on September 16, Sylvia Zin urged President Trump to raise her husband Min Zin’s case with Chinese President Xi Jinping and help secure his immediate and unconditional release from the detention in China.
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 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.
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.
As everyone knows, the military is trying to deceive the international community through false narratives. If Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is alive and in good health, they should allow international leaders and the United Nations special envoy to meet with her. Their refusal to do so suggests that they are facing serious difficulties.
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.
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.