(5 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yangon, Myanmar – 5 February 2025
1. Exterior of house of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi
2. Wide of officials moving into place outside gate of house
3. Wide of official calling for bids
4. Unidentified official announcing results UPSOUND (Burmese):
“The 1.923 acre plot of land and all the buildings on the land are being auctioned for 297 billion Myanmar kyats. Is there anyone who wants to bid? Is there anyone who wants to bid? Is there anyone who wants to bid? After three announcements, there is no bidder, so the auction is declared unsuccessful.”
5. Wide of officials walking away
6. Various exteriors of gate
STORYLINE:
A renewed attempt to auction off the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was unsuccessful Wednesday as the property in a country embroiled in a civil war failed to attract any bidders.
It was the third attempt to sell the lakeside property where Aung San Suu Kyi had been held under house arrest for nearly 15 years.
It’s widely viewed as a historical landmark of her nonviolent struggle against military rule for which she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wednesday’s auction was quickly held in front of the closed gates of the property, which has served as an unofficial party headquarters and a political shrine for Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement.
Like the previous auctions, it took less than a minute for a district court official to emerge and announce there had been no bidders and end the proceedings.
“The auction is unsuccessful as there is no bidder,” the official, who did not identify herself, announced outside the gate.
In the previous attempt at auction last August, the court-ordered asking price was $142 million; on Wednesday it was reduced by $1 million, to $141 million.
Still, no prospective buyers showed up.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government was ousted by the military in February 2021.
She is now serving a combined 27-year sentence after being convicted of a string of criminal charges that supporters say have been fabricated to discredit her.
Since then, resistance to the military government has grown and Myanmar is now in the midst of a brutal civil war.
The court-ordered auction followed a bitter decadeslong legal dispute between Aung San Suu Kyi and her brother, Aung San Oo, who has sought an equal division of the property.
Each time the house has gone up for auction its price has been reduced, but there has yet to be a bidder.
While living there, Aung San Suu Kyi hosted visiting dignitaries including U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
According to legal procedures, the court will continue to handle the auction process, but the details are not yet known.
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