The case of the missing totem: Aung San Suu Kyi

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  The Economist

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist. I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, Turkey's plan to benefit from the Iran war,

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  and looking to science to determine the ideal amount of sleep.

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  First up, though.

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  The last time that we can be sure that Aung San Suu Kyi was alive

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  was December 30th, 2022, at the conclusion of her show trial.

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  Aaron Connelly is our Asia diplomatic editor.

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  Myanmar's leader has been jailed since 2021 after a military junta overthrew her government.

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  There have been a trickle of reported sightings from Myanmar's prison system, but they're impossible to verify.

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  One former Thai foreign minister says that he met with her,

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  and a defector group has released what they say are logs of her meals and medical care.

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  But the army has refused her lawyers' requests to see her.

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  So her son, Kim Aris, who lives in London,

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  has been traveling the world in the past few months,

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  pushing presidents and ministers to demand proof of life from Myanmar's military government.

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  And this is far from her first time in detention.

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  That's right.

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  Aung San Suu Kyi was in and out of jail and house arrest

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  for about 15 years total from 1989 to 2010.

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