Southeast Asian nations must decide whether a five-point plan to end the violence in Myanmar is “still relevant”, Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah has said, as reports emerged that at least 11 children had been killed in a military airstrike on a school.
Myanmar was plunged into crisis when the military detained elected civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and seized power. It has cracked down hard on any opposition, describing civilian and ethnic armed groups fighting against its rule as “terrorists” and executing four political prisoners in July.
