Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s politics head, was put up for auction on March 20 with a minimum US$$ 150 million bid, but there were no bids, according to authorities.
Following a decades-long debate over the house between the Nobel prize, who has been detained since the 2021 military revolution, and her brother, the two-story house and 1.9 acres of land were put up for sale.
A little group, largely of journalists, gathered outside the colonial-era residence on University Avenue, just outside the US embassy, a few doors away.
Officials rang a little bell three times as they stepped out of the locked gates to announce the auction’s start.
Above the wall, a photograph of Aung San Suu Kyi’s parents, the democracy hero Aung San, watched over the proceedings, while a see advertised the value as 315 billion kyats, or US$ 150 million based on the official exchange rate.
The seller held his hand up for proposals while wearing a sarong-like longyi, but there was only silence.
” There is no one to pay”, he announced, striking the ring again to near the auction.
Plainclothed safety personnel captured images of reporters covering the event.
Aung San Suu Kyi shot to fame in 1988 during massive demonstrations against the then-junta, but the military kept her within the building’s crumbling walls for about 15 years.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who had been separated from her husband and their two children in England, spent day meditating, reading inspector books, and playing the piano.
Hundreds of people often gathered on the road outside the home to hear her speak of democracy and using non-violence to overthrow military rule.