President Barrack Obama became the first U.S. President to meet with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) whose membership includes Myanmar removed from the summits final communique the demand that Myanmar's Military Junta release Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. A Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose National League for Democracy won more than 80% of the contested seats in the 1990 general election.
Given the fact that the U.S. State Department issues an annual report on Human Rights and has criticized Myanmar over its Human Rights abuses one might believe that President Obama and the ASEAN leaders might show a little courage and allow themselves to publicly advocate for Aung San Suu Kyi's release.
While President Obama met in private with the juntas ruling general asking for her and other political prisoners release its not quite the same as when ASEAN does it in a public statement.
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