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YANGON: Myanmar’s detained democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a Red Cross representative on Monday, the humanitarian group said, her first publicised meeting with a foreign official since she was ousted in a 2021 coup.
The military deposed Suu Kyi in Feb 2021, jailing the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and triggering an ongoing civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people, according to monitor ACLED.
The coup leader and former junta chief, Min Aung Hlaing, was installed as civilian president in April following highly restricted elections, which did not include Suu Kyi’s party. Analysts say the vote was part of an effort to whitewash Min Aung Hlaing’s rule.
A spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that its resident representative to Myanmar, Arnaud de Baecque, visited Suu Kyi on Monday.
