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Sebastian Strangio
The Phnom Penh Post
The Cambodian government has hailed the release of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi after years of house arrest, describing it as an important step on the road towards democracy.
“The government of Cambodia welcomes the release of Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar,” said Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He said Suu Kyi’s release was a sign the military government is implementing its seven-step “roadmap to democracy”, the fifth of which came into force with controversial elections on November 7.
“The government of Myanmar have implemented their roadmap. They have now taken [the fifth] step towards democracy and the development of the country,” Koy Kuong said.
The 65-year-old dissident and Nobel laureate walked free Saturday after seven years of house arrest in Yangon, calling on a sea of jubilant supporters to unite in the face of repression by the country’s military rulers.
She is set to address supporters of the headquarters of her previously defunct National League for Democracy at midday today local time.
Cambodia’s reaction to the event mirrored that of other ASEAN countries, which have previously been cautious in their criticism of Myanmar’s military junta.
Today, the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the release as “an important step in the national reconciliation and democratisation process”.
A spokesman for Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono also described it as a “positive step towards national reconciliation”.
Rights groups, however, have been sceptical of the release, describing it as a means of deflecting attention away from last week’s election, widely criticised as a sham to entrench military rule.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AFP
4 comments:
What do you say Mr:Koy Koung?You understand also the democracy?What is about your dog dictator Hun Xen do with the own khmer people everyday?Beong Kok and everywhere in Cambodia?
Please anwser to the khmer people!!!!
The dictator in Burma don't lose its border to foreigner but Cambodian dictator has always to Viet and all, that is the point of difference.
Koy Kuong ran his mouth freely,but his black heart getting blacker and blacker.One day Khmer people madness will cut few pigtails popping in your big mouth.Without Viet govt and Viet illegal immigrants voting for ah Hun Xen,ah Hun Xen and CPP will be dead.Khmer people still have high hope and stand firm together,Khmer people will get free from ah Hun Xen Viet slave.Khmer people know your physicall, your mental,your verbal,and your understanding attitudes,you're a Viet slave.
While the CPP welcome the Myanmar release they themself are wrongly accused Opposition leader and send him to prison for protecting Cambodia terrritory and Cambodian interested.
One distinct different between Myanmar government and Cambodia CPP government. Is that Myanmar territory is still 100% own and protected by it people. While Cambodia territory i dont know who is the protector or defender...???
As boarder posts keep creeping in from Vietnam and Thailand...
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