U.S marines teaching Cambodian soldiers martial arts techniques during their visit to Cambodia in late 2007.Source: everyday.com.kh
Reported in English by Khmerization
A senior Cambodian military official said on Saturday 26th that about 1500 U.S soldiers will participate in military exercises in Cambodia in mid 2010.
Gen. Chhum Socheat, spokesman of the Cambodian Defence Ministry, said that approximately 2000 troops from around 20 countries, 1500 of them are American soldiers, will join in the military exercises.
These military exercises, codenamed Global Peace Operation Initiatives, are sponsored by the United States and will be staged in June or July next year.
Under the plans, these military exercises will be staged in Phnom Penh and Phnom Sruoch district in Kampong Speu province.
Reported in English by Khmerization
A senior Cambodian military official said on Saturday 26th that about 1500 U.S soldiers will participate in military exercises in Cambodia in mid 2010.
Gen. Chhum Socheat, spokesman of the Cambodian Defence Ministry, said that approximately 2000 troops from around 20 countries, 1500 of them are American soldiers, will join in the military exercises.
These military exercises, codenamed Global Peace Operation Initiatives, are sponsored by the United States and will be staged in June or July next year.
Under the plans, these military exercises will be staged in Phnom Penh and Phnom Sruoch district in Kampong Speu province.
1 comment:
This is reminiscent of the 1970s when the Khmer Republic regime of Marshall Lon Nol was a close ally of the U.S. At that time there was a high number of U.S military presence in Cambodia and the level of U.S military aid to Cambodia was unprecedented.
But the difference is that Lon Nol's regime did not engage in human rights abuses, beside on the battlefields, but Hun Sen's regime is a human rights abuser at a grand scale.
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