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NOVANEWS By Joseph Thomas – New Eastern Outlook US and European media decried in unison the arrest of Kem Sokha, leader of the Cambodian opposition party, Cambodia National Rescue. Sokha is charged with treason amid an alleged plot to overthrow the current Cambodian government with foreign assistance. The Guardian in its article, “Cambodia’s strongman PM digs in with arrest of opposition leader,” would report: The Cambodian opposition leader, Kem Sokha, has been arrested accused of treason, according to the government, in the latest of a flurry of legal cases lodged against critics and rivals of the strongman prime minister, Hun Sen. The surprise arrest raises the stakes as Hun Sen’s political opponents, NGOs and the critical press are smothered by court cases and threats ahead of a ...

NOVANEWS US fighter jets drop bombs on Cambodia circa 1973 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/cc) By Nika Knight | Common Dreams Cambodians are responding with outrage to the U.S. government’s demand that the country repay a nearly 50-year-old loan to Cambodia’s brutal Lon Nol government, which came to power through a U.S.-backed coup and spent much of its foreign funds purchasing arms to kill its own citizens, according to Cambodia’s current prime minister Hun Sen. While the U.S. was backing the Lon Nol government, it was also strafing the Cambodian countryside with bombs—a carpet-bombing campaign that would eventually see over 500,000 tons of explosives dropped on the small Asian country, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and leaving a legacy of unexploded ordnance. “[The U.S.] dr...

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Cambodia’s US-Backed Opposition Leader Charged With Treason

Cambodia Outraged as US Demands Repayment of ‘Blood-Stained’ War Debt