Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi meets Red Cross official, government says

BANGKOK - Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Aug 3, a spokeswoman for the Myanmar government said, amid concerns over the health of the 81-year-old.The Nobel Prize winner has been in detention since February 2021, when Myanmar’s military ousted an elected civilian government led by her in a dawn coup, plunging the impoverished South-east Asian nation into turmoil.Since then, Suu Kyi’s exact whereabouts and health conditions have been difficult to determine, with no foreign leader or envoy having publicly met her.On Aug 3, Suu Kyi met with Arnaud de Baecque, Resident Representative of the ICRC to Myanmar in the capital Naypyitaw, government spokeswoman Khine Khine Soe said in a message via Telegram.The ICRC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.In late April, following a military-engineered election that allowed former junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to become Myanmar’s president and amid growing international pressure, authorities said that she had been moved to house arrest. REUTERS