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Prime Minister Hun Sen has once again called for the US to cancel the hundreds of millions of dollars in debt incurred to the nation by the 1970s Lon Nol regime, this time appealing directly to Donald Trump to erase the obligation once he is inaugurated as president on January 20.

 

Lon Nol’s regime – which governed after Prince Norodom Sihanouk was ousted as head of state in March 1970, but fell to the Khmer Rouge in April 1975 – incurred the debts in exchange for items including flour, cotton and rice during the civil war.

 

Speaking at the 5th annual Sea Festival in Sihanoukville on Saturday, Hun Sen cast his mind back to Cambodia’s 1970s civil war.

 

read more http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-trump-forgive-debt

 

 
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On 12/26/2016 at 8:25 AM, geovalin said:

Prime Minister Hun Sen has once again called for the US to cancel the hundreds of millions of dollars in debt incurred to the nation by the 1970s Lon Nol regime, this time appealing directly to Donald Trump to erase the obligation once he is inaugurated as president on January 20.

No problem general. Our debt will be 20 trillion dollars by the time I reach office. I think there is room to stick your debt onto ours. There it is done you are now free to buy subs or other boy toys your balance sheet is clean again. 

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On 12/27/2016 at 7:51 AM, phycokiller said:

he could just pay it out of his own pocket but that would be too easy

Or one of his many offshore stashes. He is wealthy beyond belief from graft and corruption.

 

Read: "Hun Sen's Cambodia" - Sebastian Stranio or "Cambodia's Curse" - Joel Brinkley

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