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The stately property in Yangon is said to be worth around 27 million euros
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The childhood home of Myanmar's ousted Prime Minister, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been officially put up for sale.
This was decided by the court controlled by the military government on Monday in the capital Naypyidaw, as has now become known.
The older brother of the 77-year-old, Aung San Oo, was right.
Aung San Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest in the mansion in the former capital Yangon under a previous military rule.
Today she is in solitary confinement in a prison in Naypyidaw.
The siblings had been arguing in court for years about the stately property on the lake, which is estimated to be worth around 27 million euros.
While Suu Kyi wanted to bequeath the villa to a foundation that bears her mother's name, her brother claimed half of the fortune for himself.
In an earlier trial - when she was still head of government in Myanmar (formerly: Burma) - Aung San Suu Kyi was right.
According to The Irrawaddy newspaper
Aung San Oo appealed this decision in 2019.
He applied for the auction of the house and a share of the proceeds.
The court granted this request.
The mother received the villa in 1947 from Burma's then government after the assassination of her father, General Aung San.
She lived there until her death in 1988. After being released from house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi became head of government in 2016.
She secured a second term in an election in November 2020.
However, the military then staged another coup in February 2021.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner was sentenced to years in prison in several trials.
Aung San Suu Kyi had achieved international fame as a democracy activist and freedom fighter against the former military government.
In the meantime, however, she has also come under criticism herself: in 2019, for example, she defended her country against allegations of genocide against the Rohingya before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.
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