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(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 2, 2021, a protester holds a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi as they take part in a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon. – A Myanmar junta court on January 10, 2022 convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest round of a legal onslaught against the ousted civilian leader. (Photo by AFP)

PHNOM PENH (CNA) – Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said he had invited Myanmar’s junta chief to a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on the condition that progress is made on a peace plan he agreed to last year.

Hun Sen, the current ASEAN Chair, said he would talk to Military Chief Min Aung Hlaing by video call, noting that since their face-to-face talks earlier this month, ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been sentenced and military aircraft had been deployed in operations.

More details on Wednesday’s Borneo Bulletin

Myanmar junta threatens pot-banging protesters with treason

Demonstrators march in support of three local activists jailed by authorities during a rally in Myitkyina, capital of Myanmar’s restive Kachin state, on Tuesday. A Myanmar court jailed the three activists on Dec. 7 for defaming the military after taking part in antiwar protests, as a rights group slams Myanmar for its “pattern of continued attacks” against dissent. (AFP/Zau Ring Hpra)

Yangon, Myanmar ● Tue, January 25, 2022

Myanmar demonstrators who bang pots and pans in protest at last year’s coup can be charged with high treason, the junta warned Tuesday, days ahead of the putsch’s one-year anniversary. The February 1 coup ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s government and sent the Southeast Asian country into turmoil, with the economy in freefall and nearly 1,500 civilians dead in a crackdown on dissent. Almost a year on the junta is struggling to break resistance to its rule, with “People’s Defence Forces” (PDF) clashing regularly with its troops in many areas.

Thailand’s state-owned PTT and South Korea’s POSCO, “the two main energy companies remaining in Myanmar, should signal their support for such measures”, he said. “Junta leaders are not going to turn away from their brutality and oppression unless governments impose more significant financial pressure on them.”