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There are well documented cases of massacres, people being burned alive, executions of women who’d been raped and the killing of people who’d been used as human shields.
Mary Jane can hope for pardon or clemency from Jokowi as a last resort and Bongbong can convince Jokowi that she deserves it.
Indonesia’s war on drugs hasn’t worked. Hundreds are on death row, executions are regular and the drug trade carries on.
It is essential to create a critical mass, a larger audience of new generation Singaporeans who are ready and equipped to question the death penalty.
The Cambodian prime minister’s turnaround will pave the way for a more unified ASEAN stance on Myanmar.
The recent executions are a full-blown rebuff of the five-point consensus, indicating that the ASEAN consensus has neither a normative nor a deterrent effect on the junta.
Indonesia needs to indicate its readiness to lead ASEAN to revamp the five-point consensus, making it clearer with specific operationalization to work according to what ASEAN, not the Myanmar junta, wants.
ASEAN lacks strategic pressure to convince the junta to undertake meaningful steps toward the proposed peace plan.
The 10-member bloc had been pushing for Myanmar to adhere to a five-point peace plan it agreed to last year and has condemned the recent execution of four democracy activists by the junta.
More than just deploring the savagery, the ASEAN foreign ministers should take bolder measures to ensure the junta will not act as a “thorn in the flesh” of the regional bloc.