Obama to Talk Rights Abuses, Fair Elections
The U.S. will address human rights abuses in Cambodia and urge Prime Minister Hun Sen to conduct free and fair elections and end a culture of land grabbing during President Barack Obama’s visit to Phnom Penh next week. Samantha Power, senior director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the U.S.’ National Security Council, said that the U.S. is concerned by the “worrying direction,” in which Mr. Hun Sen appears to be moving with regards to human rights and next year’s national election. “On Cambodia, just briefly, some of you may have already noticed that Hun Sen has actually, it looks like, sort of stepped up some of the infringements on civil society, and there’s been incidents of individuals who were making visual appeals to President Obama to do certain things with regard to calling for free and fair elections in the next election,” Ms. Power said, speaking from the White House on Thursday in a conference call with reporters. …
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