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| FILE PHOTO: Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is also president of the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP), arrives before a ceremony to mark the 66th anniversary of the establishment of the party, at Koh Pich island in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Samrang Pring |
Cambodia PM calls on U.S. to withdraw Peace Corps volunteers
Reuters | 15 September 2017
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called on the United States on Friday to withdraw Peace Corps volunteers in an escalating row over accusations that U.S. agents conspired with an opposition leader to plot treason.
Hun Sen was responding after the U.S. embassy in Phnom Penh issued a travel warning that urged citizens to show caution amid “anti-American rhetoric by officials”.
“Are you scaring Cambodians?” Hun Sen said of the United States in an address to garment workers at factories which export much of their production to the United States.
“Are you prepared to invade Cambodia and that’s why you told Americans to be careful? It’s good if you pull out the Peace Corps,” Hun Sen said.
The U.S. embassy declined to comment. It has previously dismissed the accusations of collusion with opposition leader Kem Sokha and called for his release.
On Friday, the embassy was swearing in 71 new volunteers from the Peace Corps, which sends Americans abroad to help with local projects with the stated goal of promoting mutual understanding.
Hun Sen said on Friday that he had ordered an investigation into whether any Americans were involved with Kem Sokha.
Opponents of Hun Sen accuse him of arresting Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Kem Sokha and cracking down on independent media and other critics ahead of a general election next year.
The evidence presented against Kem Sokha is a video recorded in 2013 in which he discusses a strategy to win power with the help of unspecified Americans.
Hun Sen, a close ally of China, has taken a series of measures against U.S. interests this year from ending joint military exercises to expelling a naval aid unit to forcing a U.S.-funded pro-democracy group to leave.
On Thursday, Hun Sen said he was suspending cooperation with Washington to find the remains of Americans killed in the Vietnam War.
According to the U.S Embassy, more than 500 Peace Corps volunteers have served and worked in Cambodia since 2006, providing English teaching and teacher training as well as community health education.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961 to promote world peace and friendship.
Anonymous3:10 AM
ReplyDeleteDon't let this angry Vietnamese puppet Hun Sen do whatever he wants. Hun Sen is not a Prime Minister of Cambodian, but he is a Vietnamese puppet, a killer (a ghost Ho Chi Minh follower, a friend of Le Duc Tho). Let Duc Tho is a Vietnamese military commander from Hanoi, a real father of Hun Maneth and a former husband of Hun Sun's wife Bun Rany (former named Bunheang).
Hun Sen is a very suspicious Khmer Rouges killer who escaped into Vietnam when he was shot into his one eye during the Killing Fields (1975-1979).
Hun Sen is was installed as a Foreign Minister by the Vietnamese military while Mr. Pen Sovan was a Prime Minister.
Mr. Pen Sovan was arrested and jailed in Hanoi for 10 years because Mr. Sovan refused to take order from the Vietnamese military commanders and leaders from Hanoi to allow the illegal Vietnamese/Yuon immigrants flood into Cambodia and refused to execute Hanoi's 5K plan to kill more than half million of innocent and well-educated Cambodian/Khmer people by pushing them walking the land mines and chop the trees at the border of Cambodia and Thailand.
Hun Sen is a traitor and committed treason because he accepted the order from the Vietnamese military commanders and leaders from Hanoi to execute 5K plans and allowed the illegal Vietnamese immigrants to flood into Cambodia. Also Hun Sen was illegally installed as a Prime Minister of Cambodia which was not recognized by the UN, the West and International Community.
Hun Sen is a traitor and committed treason because he pleased his Vietnamese masters by hurting more Cambodia people until today.
Hun Sen has committed crimes against Humanity and a criminal of all circumstances from the Killing Fields 1975 until today.
Hun Sen must be claimed a criminal by the UN, the West, the innocent of Cambodian people and victims of all kinds of crimes in Cambodia.
Again, please don't let this angry idiot Hun Sen do whatever he wants against the UN, the U.S., Europeans, International donors, well-educated Cambodian people and heroes or patriots.
We need to execute this criminal Hun Sen as soon as possible.
We demand China and Vietnam to stop support this criminal Hun Sen as the second Pol Pot number 2 to create the second Killing Fields in the near future.
We need to be aware of what Hun Sen has been doing in Cambodia to continue to stay power and get away from the serious crimes he has committed in Cambodia and on the world stage.
The UN, European unions leaders, the U.S. officials, International Community, all Cambodian opposition leaders, and all Cambodian people should criticize the China and Vietnam who are the ones who involved the killing of millions of Cambodian people and tried to support the criminal Hun Sen in order to steal the natural resources from Cambodia and do illegal businesses with this criminal Hun Sen and his corrupted CPP officials (lazy clowns).