A house divided: The fate of Aung San Suu Kyi’s lakeside home

Once ubiquitous as Myanmar’s state counsellor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi disappeared from public life on February 1, 2021. On that day, the military seized power from the civilian government led by her political party, the National League for Democracy, and arrested her at her residence in Nay Pyi Taw, where she had lived since entering parliament in 2012.

Today, she sits in a specially-built building at a prison in the capital, and is routinely denied requests for visitors and barred from meeting her lawyers. Meanwhile, the military junta persecutes members of her party, which is barred from contesting an election planned for this year, and works hard to undo her political legacy.