ASEAN and Cambodia Embrace Myanmar Junta’s Bloody Generals

By The Irrawaddy 18 March 2022

The Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations and the present holder of its rotating chair, Cambodia, have welcomed a number of the generals accountable for the Myanmar regime’s atrocities towards its personal folks, who reject army rule.

Myanmar’s Chief of Navy Safety Affairs Lieutenant Common Ye Win Oo attended the nineteenth ASEAN Navy Intelligence Assembly (AMIM-19) in Phnom Penh on Tuesday, in keeping with junta-run media. The assembly mentioned the change of visits between ASEAN intelligence officers and the institution of the ASEAN Navy Intelligence Neighborhood.

On Thursday, the regime’s armed forces Chief of the Common Employees Common Maung Maung Aye, Chief of Employees  (Military) Lieutenant Common Moe Myint Tun and Lt-Gen Ye Win Oo joined the nineteenth ASEAN Chiefs of Protection Forces Assembly (ACDFM-19), the junta media mentioned.

Myanmar has been in political and social turmoil since February final 12 months when the army staged a coup towards the nation’s democratically elected Nationwide League for Democracy authorities led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. A couple of 12 months on, the takeover has been severely resisted by nearly all of the nation’s folks.

The regime has stopped at nothing to crush the opposition. It has despatched battalions to bombard the resistance’s stronghold areas. Fighter jets have been known as in to rain down bombs on civilian neighborhoods accused of harboring resistance fighters. Villages have been raided and torched, their residents shot down or killed no matter their age. Thus far, the regime has killed no less than 1,500 folks, principally for his or her anti-junta activism.

Whereas regime chief Min Aung Hlaing bears final accountability for the atrocities, the three generals who appeared on the ASEAN conferences this week have additionally performed a task within the raids, torching and killings talked about above. Because the Chief of the Common Employees of Military, Air and Navy, Gen. Maung Maung Aye shares within the guilt for the crimes that floor troops and air drive personnel have dedicated. So does Lt-Gen Moe Myint Tun, the Chief of Employees of Military. Chief of Navy Safety Affairs Lt-Gen Ye Win Oo is not any exception. His infamous army safety affairs unit is the regime’s principal equipment for tracing resistance members by any means, together with brutal raids on properties. Those that are detained endure hellish and infrequently lethal interrogations.

Since final 12 months, ASEAN has tried to chill the state of affairs in Myanmar, however its 5 Level Consensus, which features a name for the quick cessation of violence within the nation, has been largely ignored by the coup chief. In response, the regional bloc banned Min Aung Hlaing from attending its summits.

However whereas Min Aung Hlaing has been sidelined, his juniors  are nonetheless allowed to affix some conferences like those on Tuesday and Thursday, resulting in criticism that ASEAN’s strategy to the junta lacks consistency.

Cambodia isn’t serving to on this regard. Its Prime Minister Hun Sen turned the primary nationwide chief to personally meet Min Aung Hlaing after the coup, whereas others have shunned him. He dreamed of brokering a thaw in relations between the junta and ASEAN, however later admitted Myanmar’s regime had made no progress in resolving the disaster and mentioned an answer was unlikely throughout the the rest of his 12 months as chair.

Nevertheless, Cambodia mentioned early this month that the nation’s international minister will go to Myanmar on Sunday because the ASEAN particular envoy.

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