{"id":8564,"date":"2023-04-13T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/asean-strongly-condemns-deadly\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T03:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T03:25:09","slug":"asean-strongly-condemns-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/asean-strongly-condemns-deadly\/","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN &#8220;strongly condemns&#8221; deadly air strike in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA (Reuters) &#8211;     The chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) said on Thursday the bloc &#8220;strongly condemns&#8221; a military air strike this week on a village in Myanmar, which is reported to have killed up to 100 people including civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s attack in the Sagaing area was the deadliest in a recent string of military air attacks, with children reported to be among the dead, and has drawn global condemnation. <\/p>\n<p>Myanmar has been in chaos since a military coup in early 2021 that upended a decade of tentative democratic reform, with a bloody crackdown on protests giving rise to an armed struggle against the junta. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All forms of violence must end immediately, particularly the use of force against civilians,&#8221; chair Indonesia said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This would be the only way to create a conducive environment for an inclusive national dialogue to find a sustainable peaceful solution in Myanmar,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>ASEAN agreed a peace plan with the junta in 2021 but members have been increasingly frustrated by the military&#8217;s failure to halt offensives and open dialogue with the resistance movement backed by ethnic minority armies and a shadow National Unity Government (NUG), which the junta has declared a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; movement.<\/p>\n<p>A junta spokesperson said Tuesday&#8217;s attack targeted a ceremony held by the NUG for their armed People&#8217;s Defence Force, adding the attack aimed to restore peace and stability in the region.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Stanley Widianto; Editing by Ed Davies)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/asean-strongly-condemns-deadly\/file-photo-a-bird-flies-near-asean-secretariat-building-ahead\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3C035-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3C035-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA (Reuters) &#8211; The chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) said on Thursday the bloc &#8220;strongly condemns&#8221; a military air strike this week on a village in Myanmar, which is reported to have killed up to 100 people including civilians. Tuesday&#8217;s attack in the Sagaing area was the deadliest in a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3C035-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8566,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/8566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}