Asean Splinters Over Myanmar Condemnation

Member nations’ five-point consensus ignored from the start

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which failed to censor Myanmar for its five-month-old violent crackdown on dissent, is now learning that the so-called “five-point consensus” agreed in Jakarta in April by junta leader Min Aung Hlaing would be ignored from the start.

Any hope that Hlaing (above, center) would implement the five points --to end …