Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi was pressed about the Rohingya crisis at an Asean summit in Sydney Sunday, but the regional bloc stressed it could not intervene and “force an outcome.”Suu Kyi has been under intense global criticism for her public silence amid a brutal military crackdown that has forced nearly 700,000 of the Muslim-minority Rohingya to flee Myanmar’s Rakhine state for Bangladesh. The humanitarian crisis was one of the key topics at a three-day special summit between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and Australia. “We discussed the situation in Rakhine state at considerable length today,” Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said at the closing press conference. “Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the matter comprehensively, at some considerable length herself. Asean groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 18, 2018 07:41 UTC