“In three and a half years, we have now only received one letter from her, in January last 12 months,” her son Kim Aris told Italian newspaper La Repubblica in an interview published on Sunday.
After that, neither he nor his brother ever heard from her again, Aris added, even after Suu Kyi was transferred from prison in April.
The army ousted and arrested Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s democratically elected de facto head of presidency, after a coup in February 2021. A military junta-controlled court later sentenced her to a complete of 33 years in prison for various alleged crimes.
In 2023, the military junta reduced Suu Kyi’s sentence by six years. In April, she was transferred from a jail within the capital Naypyidaw to a different location. According to her son, the family was not informed about her whereabouts.
Her two sons learned that 78-year-old Suu Kyi was sick and affected by a severe toothache that prevented her from eating. Then they sent her a package of medicines.
“And in January, incredibly, we received a letter signed by her,” Aris said.
In Suu Kyi’s letter, she thanked them for the medicines but wrote that she was still sick. According to Aris, the sons received no response to the following package of medicines.
After the military took power, Burma descended into chaos and violence. The junta is under increasing political and military pressure, and rebel groups are engaged in violent resistance to its rule.
