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Academia 1 year ago
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Meetings on Myanmar: Human rights and ASEAN’s credibility at stake
Beneath the veneer of pragmatism lies a deeper, more troubling dilemma: Thailand’s decision to include junta representatives risks legitimizing a regime responsible for egregious human rights abuses, undermining both ASEAN’s credibility and the principles it claims to uphold.
Academia 1 year ago
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Myanmar looks more like ASEAN’s Syria than a democracy-in-waiting
Over the past three years since the Myanmar military seized power, the armed conflicts raging in the country have morphed into a civil war that is both horizontal and vertical, with anti-junta groups fighting for their own interests without a single, unifying vision, and the Rohyinga people still caught in the decades-long genocide perpetrated against them.
Asia & Pacific 2 years ago
Thai FM visits border town following clashes in Myanmar
Thailand's foreign minister arrived for a visit to the Myanmar border on Friday, the ministry said, following days of clashes that have dislodged junta troops from their positions in a vital trade hub in the neighboring country.
Asia & Pacific 2 years ago
With generals barred, Myanmar junta sends bureaucrat to ASEAN meeting
Myanmar's ruling generals remain barred from key meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) over their failure to implement a peace plan agreed with the bloc two months after a 2021 coup that unleashed chaos in the country.
Asia & Pacific 2 years ago
Myanmar junta under attack on new front as opposition intensifies
A resident of Rathedaung said gunfire was heard before dawn on Monday followed by hours of artillery bombardment, with the military seen blocking entrances to the area and reinforcing administrative buildings.
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