Biểu tình phản đối Nhân quyền của các nước Đông Nam Á trong Hội nghị ASEAN ở Sydney 2018

Hơn ngàn người của bốn sắc tộc Cam Bốt, Lào, Miến Điện và Việt Nam biều tình trưa ngày 17 tháng 3 năm 2018 ở Town Hall nhân Hội Nghị ASEAN ở Sydney năm 2018 để phản đối Nhân quyền bị chà đạp ở các nước của họ và đồng thời kêu gọi Chính phủ Úc giao thương có điều kiện với các nước trong Hội nghị - Nhân quyền phải được đề cao (No Humman Rights, No Trade), và không bắt tay với những tên Độc tài và các nước Cộng Sản.

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Hundreds gather in Sydney during ASEAN to protest against human rights abuses

By Nadia Daly
Updated yesterday at 6:59pm

Hundreds of protesters have gathered in the centre of Sydney to condemn human rights abuses in South-East Asia as a major conference of world leaders gets underway.

Protestors from Australia's Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laos, Burmese and Filippino communities united at Town Hall and voiced their concerns on the first day of the ASEAN summit.

The protestors' issues were varied, from alleged human rights abuses in Cambodia and the Philippines, to the Rohingya Muslim crisis in Myanmar.

Seeking justice for a life lost

Bou Raschana, the wife of Cambodian doctor and activist Kem Ley, who was assassinated in 2016, attended the protest to demand justice for her husband.

"He loved his country, he spoke out for the good in his country," said Mrs Raschana, who, along with her children, has been accepted as a refugee in Australia.

"Cambodia is not a democratic country, so because he spoke out that's why [he was killed]."

Sally Touche and her 91-year-old mother were also protesting against the Cambodian Government.

Ms Touche said 38 years after her family fled the Khmer Rouge, supporters of Cambodia's opposition party were being forced to escape to bordering countries.

"We came here today together as a united community to let the Australian Government and international community know that millions of people back home have no voice, have no freedom of speech, no right to say anything [against the Government] because they get hunted down if they do," she said.

"The situation there is in dire straights."

The ASEAN summit has brought the leaders of 10 south-east Asian nations to Sydney for talks on regional issues.

Among them is Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has faced growing pressure over the Rohingya crisis in her country.

Protestors at the rally chanted "Go Home Aung San Suu Kyi".

Rohingya Habib Urahman said he was unhappy Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was hosting Aung San Suu Kyi, who he described as "not the right leader" for Myanmar.

"Over 90 per cent of our population has been wiped out and more than 43,000 people have been killed in just a two or three-month operation," said Mr Urahman, who arrived in Australia as a refugee in 2009 after fleeing his homeland.

Vietnamese refugee Vandung Guyn joined the protest to highlight what he described as a lack of freedom in Vietnam.

"We are looking for a true democracy," he said

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-17/hundreds-gather-to-protest-human-rights-abuses-in-southeast-asia/9558980