We marked the one-year anniversary of the start of one of the worst crises in Southeast Asia's recent history on 1 Feb: the failed military coup in Myanmar. Led by Snr Gen Min Aung Hlaing, the junta has now spent one year devastating the country, waging a campaign of extreme violence and terror against the population.
The past year has also exposed the limitation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (Asean) ability. Driven by internal divisions, the bloc has failed to take coherent and decisive action in response to Min Aung Hlaing's atrocities. And now Asean faces a seemingly "perfect storm" of challenges to navigate in its efforts to deal with the junta military.
