Myanmar’s junta failed in an attempt to auction Aung San Suu Kyi’s lakeside mansion on Wednesday, with no bids submitted for the former democracy leader’s home—the third time the sale has flopped.
The two-storey Yangon house, on about 0.8 hectares (1.9 acres) of land, was put up for sale with a minimum price of US$140 million following a lengthy legal wrangle over the property between the Nobel laureate and her brother.
Suu Kyi, who spent years under house arrest at the mansion under a former junta, has been detained since the military seized power once again in February 2021.
Around a dozen journalists, watched over by security personnel in plain clothes, attended the curbside sale run by junta-appointed officials outside the colonial-era house on leafy University Avenue, a few doors from the US embassy.
After calling for bids starting from. . .
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