Australian reveals Myanmar jail squalor, torture fear
Sean Turnell was working as an adviser to Myanmar's civilian leader Suu Kyi when he was detained shortly after the coup
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Sean Turnell was working as an adviser to Myanmar's civilian leader Suu Kyi when he was detained shortly after the coup
SYDNEY, Nov 22, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - An Australian economist released last week after nearly two years in a Myanmar jail on
BANGKOK (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The Association of South-east Asian (Asean) defence chiefs held their annual retreat on Tuesday (Nov 22) without a representative from Myanmar amid the prolonged political crisis in the country.
After nearly two years of getting nowhere to stem the tide of open armed conflict in Myanmar in the aftermath of the Myanmar military junta putsch that ousted the civilian government in February 2021, the ASEAN Leaders' Review and Decision on the Implementation of the Five-Point Consensus (5PC) 15-point statement was released on 11 November with the aim to change the dire status quo.
It is time for the bloc to take the unprecedented step of listening to the people of Myanmar.