"I would like our people to have the right intellectual, mental and spiritual equipment to shape the country that they want to live in."
-Aung San Suu Kyi
The Board of the Suu Foundation has seen news from junta sources in Myanmar regarding the transfer of State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from prison to imprisonment at an undisclosed address in Nay Pyi Taw.
We welcome anything that provides her with some measure of human decency. It is essential that she receives the necessary care after enduring her unjust detention.
She must also have access to her family and her lawyers.
But it is only the release of all political prisoners that advances peace in Myanmar. Moving Daw Suu to house arrest is mere hostage diplomacy.
We therefore call for her full and unconditional release from arrest, accompanied by a true cessation of violence. Only in this way can all parties come together in a genuine and inclusive process that leads to national reconciliation.
The old models of divide and rule, including the discredited National Ceasefire Agreement, will not bring peace.
The Suu Foundation maintains its long-standing commitment to Myanmar—to peacebuilding, to healthcare, and to education.
We stand with those who strive for the end of violence and suffering. We support those who are now establishing forms of governance that meet the needs and interests of the people of Myanmar.
We will do all we can to support a Myanmar-led, lasting peace that will bring stability and justice for the people.
A Statement from the Board of the Suu Foundation,
4 May 2026
Our work is always based on our four core principles:
- We are committed to work with all the people of Myanmar without consideration of race and ethnicity
- We trust the aspirations of the people of Myanmar for human dignity, and for freedom, democracy and inclusion, and we work with those who seek to advance this vision for their country
- We want to be brave: our small size and the networks we have enable us to respond in agile ways to new circumstances
- We want to focus our support on those communities who have been under- served by international grants in the past: we do not seek to replicate what others are doing, but to work in those places that are harder to reach.
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