Written by DAP NEWS
Cambodian citizens made a joint statement criticizing the US-based Human Rights Commission headed by US senator Tom Lantos that has claimed human rights violations have occurred in Cambodia.
The joint statement signed by 42 people in the US state of Massch-usetts called the Human Rights Com- mission one sided, as their meeting only invited opposition party (SRP) officials and other NGOs affiliated with the SRP.
The commission is working on preventing human right abuses.
The Cambodian ambassador to the US said that he was not invited to attend the commission’s meeting. “I was not invited to attend this meeting,” Hem Heng told DAP News Cambodia on Friday. However, Cambodia authorities issued a 10-point statement citing the human rights situation in Cambodia.
The rights commission on Sep-tember 10, invited only Mu Sochua, SRP sub secretary-general, Adhoc Human Rights Center Director Pong Chheang Ngek, and Labor Program Organization Director Moeun Tola.
“This meeting only heard one side due to opposition opinions, not the discussion of the real situation in Cambodia,” said a statement sent to DAP News Cambodia.
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