Aung San Suu Kyi heart disease worsening in prison, says son
In an interview with the British newspaper The Independent, he revealed that his mother has asked to be examined by an outside doctor due to the worsening of her condition. Arrested several times since 1988, she has been held in a secret location for more than four years since the coup on 1 February 2021 that swept away democracy in Myanmar. Meanwhile, the generals are organising “their” elections in December.
London (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The health of Aung San Suu Kyi, under arrest in Myanmar since the coup staged by the generals on 1 February 2021 after her party's landslide victory in the elections, is deteriorating.
The Burmese leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, now 80, is suffering from worsening heart problems. This was reported from London by her son Kim Aris, who in an interview with The Independent newspaper appealed to the international community to intervene and obtain for her access to urgent medical care from the military junta.
‘It is deeply distressing to know that my mother's health has deteriorated,’ Kim Aris explained in the interview. "She has had ongoing heart complications, undoubtedly aggravated by the conditions in which she is being held. She has asked to be seen by a cardiologist outside the prison. I have no way of knowing whether this request has been granted.‘
Commenting on her son's words, the British newspaper published a statement by former British Foreign Secretary William Hague: ’The time has come for Aung San Suu Kyi to be released. It is also a moral and humanitarian imperative that she be given immediate access to adequate medical care."
Arrested four times since 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi has spent a total of 19 years in detention to date. With new sentences handed down in sham trials after the 2021 coup, she is expected to serve another 27 years in prison. At 80, she is the oldest female political prisoner on the planet.
The Burmese military junta provides no information on her place of detention. A few months ago, again through indirect sources, Kim Aris reported that she had been injured in a collapse during last March's earthquake.
The new alarm over Aung San Suu Kyi's health comes just as General Min Aung Hlaing has achieved important political results by taking part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin.
For the first time, Beijing has called him the “interim president of Myanmar”, consolidating his legitimacy, as well as signing numerous new economic agreements. India has also announced that it will send observers to monitor the December elections, which are being contested by forces linked to the shadow government in exile and militias that control entire parts of the country.
Just recently, the Electoral Commission announced the list of nine parties that will take part in the vote: three of them are led by the military.
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