{"id":31380,"date":"2021-04-25T15:06:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T06:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/25\/will-the-killings-stop-observers-say-asean-must-ensure-myanmar-honours-agreement-to-end-violence"},"modified":"2021-04-25T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T06:06:50","slug":"will-the-killings-stop-demands-for-asean-to-ensure-myanmar-honours-pledge-to-end-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31380","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Will the killings stop?\u2019 Demands for Asean to ensure Myanmar honours pledge to end violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asean says consensus with junta was \u2018beyond expectations\u2019, but there is no timeline or explicit commitment to stop violence<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch has told south-east Asian leaders not to \u201cpat themselves on the back\u201d for getting Myanmar\u2019s military rulers to agree to end deadly violence, saying a consensus reached by Asean lacks specifics and makes no mention of freeing political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 750 protesters have been killed since the military seized power in a 1 February coup. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations announced after a summit on Saturday that the head of Myanmar\u2019s junta had agreed to stop the violence. The Malaysian prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, who attended the meeting, said the outcome was \u201cbeyond our expectation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/25\/will-the-killings-stop-observers-say-asean-must-ensure-myanmar-honours-agreement-to-end-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asean says consensus with junta was \u2018beyond expectations\u2019, but there is no timeline or explicit commitment to stop violenceHuman Rights Watch has told south-east Asian leaders not to \u201cpat themselves on the back\u201d for getting Myanmar\u2019s military rulers to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[504,156,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asean-association-of-southeast-asian-nations","category-indonesia","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31381,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31380\/revisions\/31381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}