The Tatmadaw under General Min Aung Hlaing seized power in a coup on February 1, 2021. Nearly, 3 years have passed and ASEAN, still has not found a viable consensus on how to deal with the continuing conflict. ASEAN leaders agreed to a 5 point consensus in April 2021 at the Emergency ASEAN Summit. Since taking up arms against the junta Ethnic Armed Organizations have steadily been gaining ground defeating the Tatmadaw. At present the SAC government control only 30% of the country and has largely lost control of Myanmar’s borders as the military has continually withdrawn towards the ethnic Bamar heartlands of the central lowlands of Myanmar. Thailand recently hosted an Extended…