Cambodia has invited the Burmese junta’s defense minister to the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, despite the pleas of hundreds of human rights groups to bar him from attending due to the junta’s atrocities against civilians.
General Nem Sowath, director-general of Cambodia’s General Department of Policy and Foreign Affairs at the Defense Ministry, said on June 17 that all ASEAN defense ministers had been invited to the June 22 meeting.
This will include Burmese regime defense minister General Mya Tun Oo, who faced U.S. sanctions for his role in ousting the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese media The Irrawaddy reported….