JAKARTA—Southeast Asian leaders began a crisis meeting on Burma (also known as Myanmar) on Saturday aiming to persuade Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who led the military takeover that sparked turmoil in his country, to forge a path to end the violence.
The gathering of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta is the first coordinated international effort to ease the crisis in Burma, an impoverished country that neighbors China, India, and Thailand. Burma is part of the 10-nation ASEAN.
