10/07/2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers
reviewing the "troubling" state of human rights in Southeast Asia have
stiffly criticized Vietnam and Cambodia but reserved some of their
toughest words for Myanmar and demanded an end to U.S. concessions to
its quasi-civilian government.
The
Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs
Committee, Ed Royce, likened conditions faced by minority Muslims in
western Myanmar to concentration camps. A Democratic lawmaker questioned
whether there were signs of genocide.
Wednesday's
hearing indicated congressional goodwill toward Myanmar's government
has exhausted, and criticism of the Obama administration's
forward-leaning engagement policy has intensified.
Lawmakers took aim at Vietnam's suppression of dissent, and the strong-arm tactics of Cambodia's leader Hun Sen.
No
lawmakers mentioned Wednesday's presidential election in Indonesia that
the White House lauded as sign of its maturing democracy.
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