Current ASEAN chair Cambodia has warned Myanmar not to execute any more prisoners after the hanging of four people caused international outrage.
Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are discussing how to address the growing crisis in Myanmar at talks in Phnom Penh.The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will be forced to reconsider a peace plan agreed with Myanmar if the country's military rulers execute more prisoners, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday.
Hun Sen said ASEAN's unity had been challenged by the political and security implications of the situation in Myanmar, which has spiralled into an economic and humanitarian crisis. Cambodia along with other ASEAN member states "are deeply disappointed and disturbed by the execution of those opposition activists, despite the appeals from me and others for the death sentences to be reconsidered," said Hun Sen.
Myanmar will not be represented at this week's meeting after its military rulers declined a proposal to send a non-junta representative instead. "On Myanmar, they're all furious over last week's executions and will be looking to prove that ASEAN isn't completely neutered," said Greg Poling, director of Southeast Asia Studies at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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