Myanmar coup leader arrives in Jakarta for Southeast Asian summit

He needs to be placed in Jail.

He needs to be asked questions.

Whips and chains sound in order. What a set of Canoles.

Butchers of his ilk can always count on a warm reception from the unrepentant Indonesians who 56 years ago set a bloody precedent of killing a million or so of their own. The Burmese militarists are amateurs by comparison.

He's a child killer. At least kick in him in the balls.

what in the world is this guy going to say there?

What is “*a set of *Canoles”?

Money trumps any and all sense of morality, has been that way since the beginning of time.

He is guilty of crimes against humanity and sadly, his atrocities against his own people will soon be forgotten and erased from history.

Myanmar is one-half step towards being a totally failed state. 

The authoritarian crackdown by the military has been brutal and bloody.  Min Aung Hlaing and his Tatmadaw are persona non grata internationally over complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Rakhine for years. Violence and institutional discrimination by the favored Bamar Buddhist majority over Muslim, Hindu, and Christian minorities are epidemic . 

Diplomatic dialog is a good thing. Generally.

But not ASEAN. Not this time. ASEAN is not a problem-solving institution.

The fact that they are talking to the generalissimo at all really shows that the international community has precious few options to bring stability and democracy back to Myanmar, other than for his close neighbors to tell him that they want/expect/need for Myanmar to stabilize. Best that can hope for is a soupçon of diplomatic statements of “grave concern” and “engagement.” Maybe secure some promises of stability, an end of violence, and cessation of Tatmadaw-sponsored/encouraged insurgency incidents in neighbors, in exchange for critically needed humanitarian aid. 

Few options, none of them good.

This guy is a murderer. He should be arrested on arrival and shipped off to the Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity.

According him any official status is to desecrate the memory of his victims, invalidate human rights and legitimise dictatorship.

Anyone you shakes his hand should be ashamed to return home and look their family in the eye.

Perhaps, it's time, in the absence of Global Government Support, to take the matters into the Global Community hands, and raise a Global Go-Fund Me, to award 10K US$ to every Military Personnel who challenges and detains a Senior Myanmar individual who supports this Coup ?

The Security Council is the logical place to get things done, right?

But if last month's Security Council talks are any indication, China looks like it may be the problem.

Did China give the military a wink and a nod for the coup to happen in the first place? Accusations were made - mostly by NGOs - but no evidence has surfaced?

Chinese UN envoy Zhang Jun has said, though, that sanctions and other “coercive measures” would only “aggravate tension and confrontation.”

Security Council action? ICC prosecution? Nope! Veto! Not unless the C.C.P. can somehow change its mind.

U.N. Human Rights Commission referral for a commission to investigate? Maybe. Takes time, though, while the situation on the ground continues to deteriorate.

U.N. General Assembly action? Maybe, but it will take time too. All the while critics of any intervention whatsoever will be screaming variations on a theme of the age-old mantra, "who are you to talk, just look at your own despicable and unaddressed past/present."

Incidentally, look on line at photos of Myamar's shiny lethal new weapons on display at their latest military parade.

Ugly situation.

Anyone out there want to make their doctoral thesis "Is Myanmar the next North Korea?"

And why is this mass killer not internationally sought by Interpol and immediately taken into custody when outside of his area? Anybody else would immediately be , already for much less killings responsible than that dictator guy. Oh , I forgot, not anybody else, for example that mass killer Assad from Syria also regained his power , similarly untouched. In fact, all the loud outcries and media coverage is only a show and those killers can do what they want and continue killing.

What kind of look will he wear to go public at an international conference? Wearing no look but a mask?