Iwas 11 years old when my mother was first put under house arrest. I was with her at that time and remember the soldiers arriving, hauling away the young students, and cutting my mother off from the rest of the world. The following weeks of confinement is one of the few times during my life that I have had Daw Aung San Suu Kyi all to myself.

I am 48 years old now and my mother finds herself in a far worse situation following her arrest amid a February 2021 coup d'état —just three months after she won a landslide 82% of the vote in rare free elections in Burma, officially now known as Myanmar.

At 80 years of age, she has ongoing health concerns including heart, gum, and bone diseases. Unlike her previous detention, when she was permitted to reside at home and allowed some communication

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