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.
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.