Aung San Suu Kyi’s son, Kim Aris, made a direct plea to Myanmar’s military junta on Friday, 31 January, for the release of his mother on the fourth anniversary of her arrest.
The imprisonment of the democratically elected leader during the military coup on Feb 1, 2021, has been “deeply painful” but goes beyond a family story, Aris said.
“She is the last flame of hope for peace and democracy,” he told The Independent. “She must be freed. The flame must not be allowed to be snuffed out.”
His call came as he handed a letter into the Myanmar embassy in London calling for her to be set free and after the release of Independent TV’s documentary Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi.
