Defiant Hun Sen tells US to cut all aid to Cambodia

Phnom Penh – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen challenged the United States on Sunday to cut all aid after it announced it was ending funding for a general election next year in response to the dissolution of the main opposition party, media reported.

Hun Sen, the strongman who has ruled Cambodia for more than three decades, has taken a strident anti-American line in an increasingly tense run-up to a 2018 election that has included a crackdown on critics, rights groups and independent media.

In full: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-usa-idUSKBN1DJ049

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