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Auction of Aung San Suu Kyi’s home in Myanmar attracts no bidders

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi tour the grounds after their meeting at Suu Kyi's house in Yangon, 2011
Hillary Clinton and Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi tour the grounds of the house in Yangon, in 2011. Photograph: Reuters

No bidders have appeared at an auction in Myanmar for the sale of the home of jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, for which the starting price was reported to be in the tens of millions of dollars.

The family property on Yangon’s Inye Lake was up for auction by order of the supreme court, after a years-long legal battle between Aung San Suu Kyi, who was ousted in a 2021 coup, and her estranged brother Aung San Oo.

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