Asean must take a strong and united stand on the Rohingya crisis

THE grim discovery this week of mass graves near the Thai border in Malaysia has lent a poignant urgency to the 15-nation summit in Bangkok on Friday on the Rohingya crisis.

An emergency meeting in Kuala Lumpur last week - attended by the foreign ministers of Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, as well as the United Nation's refugee agency (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration - produced an agreement to p…