Cambodian prime minister suggests US should withdraw Peace Corps volunteers

[geovalin]

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has implied that the United States should withdraw American Peace Corps volunteers amid escalating tensions over accusations that Americans in the Southeast Asian country colluded with an opposition leader against the government.

 

Earlier, the US 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 on Friday in an address to garment workers at factories that export much of their production to the US. “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,” he added.

 

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[Sydebolle]

Some of us saw, what kind of unspeakable mess the Americans (and I refer here to the official USA in Washington and not those many lovely US citizen not having a clue nor a choice) created in Indochina, how they lied consistently about it and even denied the "secret" war.
Some 42 years ago they sneaked away like thieves leaving Cambodia in a power vacuum which allowed the Khmer Rouge to go about with their genocide. The only US war criminal still alive today is Dr. Heinz Alfred Kissinger and he shall never see the millions of dead bodies, tortured people and disaster he so professionally planned all over the planet. 

Ah, and yes, everything usually started with the American "Peace" Corps; do everyone a favour; pack up and leave with a one-way ticket back home; plenty of peace-needing activities waiting for you guys at home. 

[Thaidream]

I was one of the Americans who went to the war zone in 1971 and knew immediately it was a lost cause.  the so called 'Peace with Honor' is about as much of a misnomer as one could imagine.   The US caused the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and allowed it to flourish and commit genocide against the Cambodian people. The current Cambodian Prime Minster knows what happened as he was once a member of the KR and certainly bears some responsibility.

 

While the Americans have their History in Cambodia to repent for, Hun Sen is going after the wrong people . He needs to realize that the Cambodian people have had enough of he and his minions and want a fair election so they can choose his replacement. Whether the Peace Corps goes home or not will not solve the problems of  Cambodia. Hun Sen is using the Americans as straw men.  He also might want to consider repatriating his fellow countrymen who have been deported from the US for criminal behavior instead of refusing to take them back as most civilized countries do. Cambodia is in the current position now due to the incompetency of the  Cambodian Government. You can't blame everything on America.

Edited September 16, 2017 by Thaidream

[JCauto]

8 hours ago, Thaidream said:

I was one of the Americans who went to the war zone in 1971 and knew immediately it was a lost cause.  the so called 'Peace with Honor' is about as much of a misnomer as one could imagine.   The US caused the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and allowed it to flourish and commit genocide against the Cambodian people. The current Cambodian Prime Minster knows what happened as he was once a member of the KR and certainly bears some responsibility.

 

While the Americans have their History in Cambodia to repent for, Hun Sen is going after the wrong people . He needs to realize that the Cambodian people have had enough of he and his minions and want a fair election so they can choose his replacement. Whether the Peace Corps goes home or not will not solve the problems of  Cambodia. Hun Sen is using the Americans as straw men.  He also might want to consider repatriating his fellow countrymen who have been deported from the US for criminal behavior instead of refusing to take them back as most civilized countries do. Cambodia is in the current position now due to the incompetency of the  Cambodian Government. You can't blame everything on America.

Whom is it Hun Sen should go after? And of course he realizes that people want him gone, why do you think he's knobbling the Press and trying to get the main opposition party dissolved? 
 

As for repatriation, I'm with him on that one. The majority if not all of those people came to the USA when they were children, and because their parents were refugees and didn't understand how things worked there, they failed to get them the citizenship they were entitled to. Then the kids got into trouble (usually with gangs) and now the USA wants to (and has been) deport them back to a country they have no recollection of and may never even have lived in and which they often don't speak the language of. That's hardly fair.