Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim called for tougher ASEAN pressure on Myanmar. Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, he said, must take measures to pressure the Myanmar government into ending atrocities against its own people.
Anwar, on a two-day official visit to Thailand, said in a speech to the Malaysian-Thai Chamber of Commerce that ASEAN members have to be courageous enough to try and resolve the crisis in Myanmar, triggered by the 2021 coup, which the UN have described as a civil war.
Security forces have killed thousands of civilians and army sweeps through the countryside have displaced more than 1 million people from their homes. According to SCMP, in 2017, a brutal counterinsurgency campaign against the Muslin Rohingya minority drove more than 740,000 across the border to Bangladesh, where they remain in refugee camps.
Anwar said Myanmar has…
