{"id":3243,"date":"2025-10-14T07:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2025-10-14T07:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:33:02","slug":"asean-urged-to-reject-myanmar-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2025\/10\/14\/asean-urged-to-reject-myanmar-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Asean urged to reject Myanmar election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Asean urged to reject Myanmar election<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FMT Reporters<\/a>Share<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ex-foreign minister Saifuddin Abdullah, former Thai foreign minister Kasit Piromya, and three former UN experts on Myanmar say the military regime\u2019s plan to hold an election on Dec 28 fails to meet the basic conditions for legitimacy.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

PETALING JAYA:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Asean has been urged to reject Myanmar\u2019s planned election and overhaul its strategy on the country as the military junta escalates violence against civilians ahead of a proposed December vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a joint statement, former foreign minister Saifuddin Abdullah, former Thai foreign minister Kasit Piromya, and three former United Nations experts on Myanmar \u2013 all founding members of the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar \u2013 said the 47th Asean Summit this month was the bloc\u2019s \u201cfinal chance to act\u201d and to \u201cunequivocally reject the junta\u2019s sham election\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They said the military regime\u2019s plan to hold an election on Dec 28 failed to meet the basic conditions for legitimacy outlined by foreign minister Mohamad Hasan, who recently stated that the polls must be free, fair, transparent, and credible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnything short of rejection would be a callous betrayal of the Myanmar people and a dangerous reward to violent authoritarianism,\u201d said the statement, which was also issued by Marzuki Darusman, Yanghee Lee and Chris Sidoti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group also condemned the junta\u2019s \u201cpropaganda campaign\u201d after it falsely claimed that Mohamad had agreed to send Malaysian election observers and accused Asean of \u201cfour years of failure\u201d in enforcing its five-point consensus on Myanmar \u2013 a five-point peace roadmap to which the top general had agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group said Asean\u2019s inaction had allowed the spread of mass killings, transnational crime, and impunity, warning that \u201can emboldened junta is ramping up its targeted killings of civilians, including children\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent attacks include an Oct 6 bombing in Sagaing region which killed at least 26 people and injured 40 during a Buddhist festival, and a September airstrike on a Rakhine state school which reportedly killed 22 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Friday, state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said Mohamad \u201cvowed to send electoral observation teams to Myanmar\u201d after a meeting in Naypyidaw with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohamad later clarified that Asean would discuss Myanmar\u2019s request for observers at the Asean foreign ministers\u2019 meeting, although he said he didn\u2019t expect the regional bloc to agree to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myanmar has been in turmoil since a 2021 military coup that overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and triggered an armed rebellion which led to large parts of the country slipping out of the junta\u2019s control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Myanmar is an Asean member, the bloc has barred its military leaders from its meetings since 2022, citing their failure to adopt the five-point peace roadmap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their statement, Saifuddin, Kasit, and the three former UN experts urged Asean to adopt a new strategy on Myanmar by rejecting the junta\u2019s election and expanding sanctions by excluding all junta representatives from Asean meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also called on Asean to pursue a democratic roadmap by engaging stakeholders \u2013 including the National Unity Government, ethnic resistance groups, and civil society \u2013 while pushing for a nationwide ceasefire and the unobstructed delivery of humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asean urged to reject Myanmar election FMT ReportersShare Ex-foreign minister Saifuddin Abdullah, former Thai foreign minister Kasit Piromya, and three former UN experts on Myanmar say the military regime\u2019s plan to hold an election on Dec 28 fails to meet the basic conditions for legitimacy. PETALING JAYA:  Asean has been urged to reject Myanmar\u2019s planned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,1,10,16,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-international-news","category-local-news","category-news","category-opinion","category-science-it-ai-military-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}