The Jakarta Post
ASEAN's authority could potentially be undermined unless it starts addressing the political and human rights aspects of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, a United Nations expert has warned, as a team of UN investigators uncover damning evidence that links foreign money with a military crackdown that forced out more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims. The regional response to the crisis has been "agonizingly slow" and the 10-nation bloc has not allowed for the bleak conclusions of the UN fact-finding mission to sink in, said the chairman of the investigation team, Marzuki Darusman, after his team unveiled a report on the Myanmar military's (Tatmadaw) web of economic interests on Monday. “If this stigma continues to hang over ASEAN, then I think there will be serious doubts about the whole idea of ASEAN. This is not just the governments of ASEAN that's at stake, ...