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View all search resultsRI Myanmar leadership key as ASEAN will flags: Analysts
Analysts have suggested the establishment of a long-term road map that contains provisions to maintain progress as the bloc’s chair rotates.
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ressure is mounting on Indonesia to lead the charge to address the Myanmar coup crisis amid growing sentiment that to succeed, the effort must go beyond ASEAN’s slow processes.
Analysts have suggested the establishment of a long-term road map that contains provisions to maintain progress as the bloc’s chair rotates.
More than two years after a coup d’etat plunged Myanmar’s political and social landscape into crisis, ASEAN faces accusations of moving too slowly against a defiant junta that has unleashed a heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy groups that it calls terrorists.
The military regime extended the nationwide state of emergency for a fourth time on Tuesday, a designation it has used as a pretext to suspend democratic processes to “restore perpetual peace across the nation”. The emergency status delays the election the junta has promised by at least another six months.
The announcement was made after junta leader Gen. Min Aung Hlaing met with the Myanmar National Defense and Security Council (NDSC) and promised more “military and security operations for minimizing terror acts”.
The junta also announced a partial pardon for ousted democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, rescinding five charges that shortened her prison sentence to 27 years. The move is widely considered a bid to ease international pressure against the military’s rule.
On the same day, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry expressed concern that the developments had “only continued to decelerate any peace efforts”.
