Aung San Suu Kyi, 81, met with ICRC Resident Representative Arnaud de Baecque on Monday morning, her first confirmed external contact in 2.5 years following the February 2021 military coup. Photographs released by the president's office show her shaking hands with the representative and cutting a birthday cake. The military deposed her government, installed Min Aung Hlaing as president, and reduced her 33-year sentence to house arrest amid a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people.