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Human Rights Talks Absent from ASEAN Summit

Ha Nguyen

   HO CHI MINH CITY - Much of the recent ASEAN summit was focused on
   political snubbing between Donald Trump and the region, an Asian trade
   agreement, and the South China Sea dispute, but one topic was not a
   priority: human rights.

   So says the [1]ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights organization,
   (APHR) which lamented the rise of authoritarianism in the Association
   of Southeast Asian Nations. It named and shamed Myanmar's ethnic
   cleansing of Muslim Rohingya, the Philippines' killing of innocents in
   its drug war, Thailand's military grip on power, and Cambodia's
   elimination of opposition parties. The organization said it has long
   called for human rights discussions at the annual summit, but heads of
   state didn't heed the call at the most recent summit that ended Monday
   in Bangkok.

References

   1. https://aseanmp.org/

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