Asean must do more to prevent conflict, protect refugees

Dr Noeleen Heyzer, a member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Board on Mediation and an NUS Board of Trustees member, noted that the crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has seen the fastest refugee exodus anywhere in the world since the Rwanda genocide of 1994. She stated two issues revealed by the terrible humanitarian consequences of the Rakhine crisis and also highlighted three priorities for Asean to address the current crisis and to prevent such crises from deepening in the future.

• The Straits Times, 10 November 2017, Opinion, pA26