Coup Leader Expected to Attend ASEAN Summit on Myanmar on April 24
Coup Leader Expected to Attend ASEAN Summit on Myanmar on April 24
A protester holds onto the shirt of a fallen comrade during a crackdown by security forces against anti-regime demonstrations in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar Township on March 14, 2021. / STR / AFP
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By Thai PBS World 16 April 2021
ASEAN leaders have agreed to meet and discuss the situation in Myanmar on April 24 at the grouping’s secretariat headquarters in Jakarta, according to a high-level source.
Myanmar military junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing is expected to attend the meeting, which many see as a test of ASEAN unity in dealing with the crisis.
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MAE HONG SON, April 16 Myanmar’s coup has opened an unexpected window of opportunity for the various ethnic rebel outfits, which have no loyalty to either the junta or to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but could together pose a threat to the army’s rule.
The country has been in turmoil since the military ousted Suu Kyi in February, crushing a 10-year experiment with democracy that had been enthusiastically embraced by the dominant Bamar ethnicity.
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