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Asean gets tough with Burmese junta

After decades of turning a blind eye to the Burmese junta's authoritarian abuses, south-east Asian nations announced today that they could no longer defend the indefensible. "Asean now has reached a stage where it is not possible to defend its member when that member is not making an attempt to cooperate or help itself," Malaysia's foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, said in a speech at a conference of Asean legislators.

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