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Kim Aris to run 80km ahead of Aung San Suu Kyi’s 80th birthday

The son of Myanmar’s jailed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, Kim Aris, announced that he will run six miles (10 km) per day for eight days in-a-row to raise funds to help the people of Burma and to commemorate his mother’s 80th birthday, which is June 19. Aung San Suu Kyi has been held in detention in Naypyidaw since the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021. 

“I’ve set myself a challenge to try and run 80 kilometers within eight days. And I’d like to get people to sponsor me to help raise more money for humanitarian aid [to Burma],” Kim Aris told DVB. “[It’s] hard, but it’s nothing compared to my mother’s 80 years of strength. Let’s show her that she has not been forgotten and that her vision for a peaceful, free Burma lives on through all of us,” he wrote on the campaign page.