Mech Dara and Daphne Chen

 

The Cambodian government expressed “dismay” yet remained defiant yesterday in the face of a US decision to cut aid to the Kingdom in response to its ongoing political crackdown, saying it would not comply with demands to restore the forcibly dissolved opposition CNRP.

 

In a statement, government spokesman Phay Siphan defended Cambodia’s track record as a liberal democracy and called the US decision “dishonest”.

 

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The Americans and Europeans should cut foreign aid to Cambodia completely. The decadence and arrogance of the Cambodian elite is disgusting. The greed and corruption is off the scale. Hun Sen and his cronies steal most of the aid money to fund their grotesque lifestyles - leaving most other Cambodians to try and survive at subsistence level.

Does that mean if America continued to give them a handout they'd not fight colonialism ?