Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/AAP Diplomatic isolation for military rulers Myanmar’s junta, led by Min Aung Hlaing, is increasingly isolated within its Southeast Asian bloc.
The result is increasing international isolation for the Myanmar junta and its leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
However, recent events have demonstrated significant changes are afoot.įor the first time in its 54-year existence, some ASEAN member states are vocally opposing a military coup within the bloc. Myanmar's military reverts to its old strong-arm behaviour - and the country takes a major step backwardsĪSEAN’s history and constitutional documents suggested its response to the coup would likely be muted impartiality. It then prosecuted them under bogus criminal charges and replaced the elected government with a military junta. The Myanmar military arrested Suu Kyi and the president in a coup in February this year. On Tuesday the judge in a show trial of Myanmar’s 76-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi delayed the verdict in the first ruling on 11 charges that could result in cumulative sentences of 102 years in jail.Īs this theatre played out in a courtroom in Myanmar’s capital, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) consolidated a gradual, but tectonic, shift in its long-held policy of noninterference in member states’ internal affairs.
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