ASEAN Ministers Hold Emergency Myanmar Meeting

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Immigration authorities transport Myanmar nationals before their deportation from Malaysia, February 23, 2021. © 2021 Lim Huey Teng/Reuters Southeast Asian foreign ministers are meeting today in Jakarta, Indonesia, to discuss the most pressing crisis facing the region: Myanmar. Last April, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) adopted a “five-point consensus” in response to the February 2021 military coup in Myanmar, an ASEAN member. Since then, Myanmar junta chief Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing has defied each point while overseeing crimes against humanity and…

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