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Only Alsace-Houchi's gaolers know how Myanmar's ousted leader spent her 80th birthday on June 19th.
Irena Long writes about Myanmar for The Economist.
She was detained in February 2021 when the army staged a coup
and is believed to be kept in solitary confinement
in a purpose-built cell in a detention centre in Naepidol, the capital.
She cannot communicate, even with her family.
That's never clear where or when she was anywhere.
They keep saying that she's been moved to house arrest or maybe some military compound or whatnot.