Prime Minister Hun Sen took the US Embassy to task yesterday for posting an image of a red herring on its Facebook page while it pointed to American contributions to saving temples and protecting forests. In his latest broadside against the US, he asked a graduation ceremony yesterday: “Why did they post a fish, and then go on to talk about other things?”

 

Mr Hun Sen accused the US of acting as if it believed it was Cambodia’s parents, but did not expand on his comments about the embassy post. On Friday, the embassy posted a picture of the fish with a caption “Red Herrings KH” without saying anything else.

 

On Sunday, the fish and “Red herrings KH” caption appeared with a picture of forests. Added to the caption were the words: “What does the United States do in Cambodia? We save forests.” The post said the US was working to stop the loss of forests which helped Cambodia improve land management and preserve more than 2.6 million hectares of woodland.

 

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Didn't the US sprinkle a few cluster bomblets to discourage forest and jungle encroachments a long while back?