Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha will send Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai to the Jakarta summit in his place. - AFP
YANGON (AFP): A weekend summit on the Myanmar coup crisis will be a test for Asean's credibility and unity, a senior Thai official said Thursday (April 22), amid an escalating death toll and violence across its western border.
Security forces in Myanmar have killed at least 739 people since a Feb 1 military coup ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a local monitoring group.
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