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Al Jazeera Staff

Why is the Myanmar crisis such a challenge for ASEAN?

ASEAN foreign ministers meet a week after Myanmar hanged four opponents of the military regime [Vincent Thian/AP Photo]

Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are meeting in Phnom Penh, a week after Myanmar’s coup leaders executed four opponents in an act that shocked the world.

ASEAN criticised the killings, but the National Unity Government (NUG) of elected politicians who were overthrown by the military and coup opponents, as well as rights groups, are calling for more concrete action from the 10-nation group, which admitted Myanmar as a member in 1997.

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