{"id":3282,"date":"2025-10-15T12:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:34:26","slug":"asean-must-choose-between-morality-and-complicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2025\/10\/15\/asean-must-choose-between-morality-and-complicity\/","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN must choose between morality and complicity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ASEAN must choose between morality and complicity.<\/strong><br>If it sends observers to a fraudulent election, it will destroy the last shred of its moral credibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sebastian Strangio, Southeast Asia Editor at <em>The Diplomat<\/em>, notes that ASEAN shows every sign of accepting the coming Myanmar election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let\u2019s be honest \u2014 even <strong>sending observers<\/strong> to a sham election that everyone knows is <strong>fraudulent<\/strong> would be an act of complicity, not neutrality. It would legitimize a process built on blood, repression, and fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the question is not whether the junta will hold its fake election \u2014 it\u2019s whether <strong>ASEAN will again betray its own principles<\/strong> for the sake of \u201cpragmatism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Myanmar activists are still appealing to ASEAN\u2019s conscience. Let\u2019s see whether ASEAN will finally listen \u2014 or whether <strong>credibility and morality<\/strong> will once again be sacrificed on the altar of convenience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cClearly, any government that is formed after the election will be unrepresentative and viewed as illegitimate to a large segment of Myanmar society. ASEAN\u2019s leaders now have to decide whether to send teams to observe an election that will clearly fall short of the bloc\u2019s own professed standards. The reactive pragmatism with which it has responded to the Myanmar conflict since the coup of 2021 gives every indication that it will accept the election as a fait accompli, and attempt to continue its push toward peace within the junta\u2019s new terms of engagement.\u201d<br>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/10\/myanmar-invites-asean-to-send-election-observers-to-year-end-polls\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNcZlBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHt4GsvbfKRkssvrmqmaUDL53wwJGZLLDT00Dp6kLzDZ3IqPg5SP-RVN1KO71_aem_E_rfOYKp4gfE-E7LvR5Wzw\"><em>The Diplomat<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TQ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/james.shwe.7?__cft__[0]=AZUiRVvX_nZXGTyZg6Em__ddURzDYQbuIDT65Mn9mpIxArYai5Bkg1uvMvHgkWzAOlP19XfmwJbywsFHaMUlyeFmP5r01R9MCJRIm7RvoRHh97m7Qg1aFZGJ40ZLIzpWWCAcsor4hv1jkW_w11Vm7GlEQuGBqxU8MP3Kuy8K05BjPrzq4oOvtboIA6Aulo4vrOY&amp;__tn__=-UC%2CP-R\"><strong>James Shwe<\/strong><\/a> for your post.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASEAN must choose between morality and complicity.If it sends observers to a fraudulent election, it will destroy the last shred of its moral credibility. Sebastian Strangio, Southeast Asia Editor at The Diplomat, notes that ASEAN shows every sign of accepting the coming Myanmar election. But let\u2019s be honest \u2014 even sending observers to a sham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-international-news","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","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=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}