YANGON—Myanmar’s junta on Wednesday criticized an ASEAN statement condemning military violence and the targeting of civilians as “one-sided,” a day
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the 2021 military coup that sparked mass protests and a bloody military crackdown.
At a summit on Tuesday, ASEAN leaders called on the military to “de-escalate violence and stop targeted attacks on civilians.”Myanmar slammed the review as “not objective” and “one-sided,” in a statement published Wednesday in the state-backed Global New Light of Myanmar. Internationally isolated Myanmar will not take up its scheduled chairmanship of ASEAN in 2026, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told reporters on Tuesday.
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