BANGKOK: Myanmar’s junta is endangering the life of jailed democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi, her political party said on Thursday, accusing the m...
The party asked the international community to “advance efforts and push” for the release of Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Myanmar.National League for Democracy chairperson, Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech during a voter education campaign at the Hsiseng township in Shan State, on September 5, 2015.
“We are particularly concerned that she is not receiving adequate medical care and they are not providing healthy food nor accommodation sufficiently with the intention to risk her life,“ the National League for Democracy said. That trial ended last year, with Suu Kyi jailed for a total of 33 years in prison, a term later partially reduced by junta chief Min Aung Hlaing.
According to a local monitoring group, more than 24,000 people have been arrested in the junta’s sweeping crackdown since the coup. Confinement in the isolated capital is a far cry from the years Suu Kyi spent under house arrest during a previous junta, where she became a world-famous democracy figurehead.
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