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Comment: Editorial: Disturbing Myanmar
Jan 18, p
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Few were expecting any surprises from the ASEAN Ministerial Retreat in Lombok over the weekend.
So when news emerged that the 10-member group was urging an easing of sanctions against Myanmar, we found it rather shocking, if not altogether disturbing.
The introduction of a regime sanctioned constitution, general elections and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi are grounds for Indonesia and fellow members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to be cautiously optimistic, but nothing more than that.
They are certainly not worth betting Indonesia’s international credibility on.
The argument put forward using the election and Suu Kyi’s release
as rationale was flawed and premature.
Your comments:
There is a lot of uncertainty still hanging over [Myanmar]. Don’t forget the Burmese generals will sell ASEAN for their personal benefit.
Henry Day
Boston, Massachusetts
ASEAN is fast becoming a stooge of Western countries. It is obvious that business opportunities outweigh the morals and ethics of the body.
The rigged elections and the cosmetic release of Suu Kyi is a strategy of a Junta that is controlled by
generals who impede free speech and freedom of press with the benign blessings of ASEAN, while
the rest of the world eyes the commercial rewards.
Markulyseas
Denpasar
