Myanmar releases first images of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi since 2021 coup

Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been visited by a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in a meeting welcomed by her son. The meeting was the first publicised visit between her and a foreign official since she was ousted in a 2021 coup. Some ASEAN nations have questioned the timing of the government-permitted meeting between Suu Kyi and the ICRC

represenThe son of Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi said a visit by a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was the first positive development concerning her in more than five years.

“This may be a first step, but it must not be the last,” Kim Aris said in a statement, adding he has not yet received independent confirmation of his mother’s condition or wellbeing.

The meeting was the first publicised visit between her and a foreign official since she was ousted in a 2021 coup.

The military deposed Suu Kyi in February 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 military leader, Min Aung Hlaing, was inaugurated Myanmar’s president in April following highly restricted elections.tative.