Aung Sun Suu Kyi’s son demands her release outside Myanmar Embassy in London

Aung San Suu Kyi’s son pleads with Myanmar’s military dictatorship to free his motherOriginal

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00:00For the military hunter in Burma to hold a frail 79-year-old woman in solitary confinement

00:09in jail for daring to ask for her country's freedom is not just wrong, as her son it is

00:17also deeply painful. I will never stop fighting for her to be released after her appalling

00:22treatment by a military regime who used trumped up charges to deny her a second term in office

00:29and being free to fight democratic elections. We will never stop fighting for Burma and

00:35her people. My grandfather was assassinated fighting for freedom. My father was not allowed

00:41to see my mother when he was dying of cancer. My brother and I have had long spells without

00:46seeing our mother, but this is beyond our family pain. She is the last flame for hope,

00:53for peace and democracy in Burma. She must be freed. The flame must not be allowed to

00:58be snuffed out. I'm here today to deliver this letter for General Min Aung Hlaing requesting

01:07for my mother's release. Hopefully they will accept it. Seems like they're not going to

01:19answer the door. No, this is not the first time that they haven't answered the door to me.

01:29No, no. Well, seems like they won't be answering the door.