Rare Suu Kyi phone call to son signals shift in Myanmar junta strategy
Kim Aris, who lives in the UK, says his 81-year-old mother sounded “fairly healthy” but he remains concerned about her well-being
Suu Kyi, 81, is under house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw, according to Myanmar authorities, where she has been sequestered since being unseated in a 2021 military coup.
“She was sounding fairly healthy,” Kim Aris, who lives in the UK, said after the telephone conversation. It was the first time he had spoken to his mother in more than five years, he said. “She was able to say she was in good health, but being 81, things aren’t getting any better.”
