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Under pressure from ASEAN, the Myanmar military government says it will release more than 5,000 protesters

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Original title: Under pressure from ASEAN, the Myanmar military government announced that it would release more than 5,000 protesters

Myanmar’s traditional festival of Lights is approaching. On the 18th local time, the leader of the Myanmar military government, Min Aung Lai, announced that more than 5,600 demonstrators who have been imprisoned for protesting against the military government’s power will be released.

According to a report by Singapore’s “Straits Times” on the 18th, Min Aung Lai said on the same day that a total of 5,636 prisoners will be released when the Lantern Festival is approaching. However, the military government did not announce the list of those who were released and the specific details of when they were released.

According to reports, before Min Aung Lai announced the above decision, he had just caught a cold in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (hereinafter referred to as “ASEAN”). Brunei, the rotating ASEAN presidency, announced on the 16th that it would invite a non-political representative of Myanmar to attend the ASEAN summit and series of meetings to be held at the end of this month. Min Aung Lai will not be invited to attend.

Al Jazeera analyzed on the 17th that ASEAN’s decision not to invite Min Anglai marked a rare and bold step taken by this consensus-oriented group, which has always supported the policy of contact and non-interference. Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on the 16th that the move to exclude Min Anglai was “a difficult but necessary decision to maintain the credibility of ASEAN.”

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ASEAN leaders believe that Myanmar has insufficiently implemented the five-point consensus reached in April aimed at ending domestic unrest. Min Aung Lai reiterated in a television speech on October 18 that the Myanmar military government is determined to implement the five-point consensus reached with other ASEAN member states to promote the Myanmar peace process. He also condemned the opposition as the chief culprit of the local violent conflict.

According to United Nations statistics, since the sudden change in the political situation in Myanmar in February this year, more than 1,100 people have died as a result of clashes with Myanmar’s security forces during protests, and more than 8,000 have been arrested. In response, the Myanmar military denied that the death toll was exaggerated.


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