https://www.reuters.com/article/us-camb ... SKBN1J90HNPHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The United States has imposed sanctions on the commander of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s bodyguards, accusing him of using force to menace opponents for decades, the first member of the leader’s inner circle to be blacklisted by Washington.
This is amusing:
Begs the questions why a Cambodian General's stash of schools, roads and pagoda building cash would need to be kept in the US?Hing Bun Hieng was not available for comment but an assistant who answered his telephone told Reuters:
“He spends money on building schools, roads and pagodas, so let the United States freeze these funds so students and monks can’t have all that, right?”
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