US soldier providing training to Cambodian soldiers for UN peacekeeping missionBy Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Washington
19 February 2008
The US Department of Defense has spent more than $1 million on military aid Cambodia over the last two years, a defense official said Friday.
Of that money, about 90 percent was budgeted to foreign military financing, with the remaining money spent on an international military education training program, said Maj. Stewart Upton, a Defense Department spokesman.
Four Cambodian students are training in English language for the Defense Language Institute, and a Cambodian cadet is attending the US military academy West Point, he said.
The US resumed aid to Cambodia last year, following a cessation in the wake of the July 1997 coup.
Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh said US assistance was not much yet, but that officials on each side were considering other areas for bilateral aid.
Of that money, about 90 percent was budgeted to foreign military financing, with the remaining money spent on an international military education training program, said Maj. Stewart Upton, a Defense Department spokesman.
Four Cambodian students are training in English language for the Defense Language Institute, and a Cambodian cadet is attending the US military academy West Point, he said.
The US resumed aid to Cambodia last year, following a cessation in the wake of the July 1997 coup.
Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh said US assistance was not much yet, but that officials on each side were considering other areas for bilateral aid.
4 comments:
long live khmer-american friendship.
I wonder what American policy and objective to train and support dictator, Hun Sen, who killed a lot of Cambodia and opposition members. It acts like the US doesn't care about democracy but to help strenghten the bad guy.
maybe the US gov't don't like the politicizing of parties on this website so much with the expense of the cambodian general population who had suffered long enough already; and perhaps, the US can not continue to deprive the millions of innocent cambodian people who they see as sick and tired of all the political infightings going on. enough already, perhaps. don't want to pick side, ,maybe?
Is Cambodia experiencing another Lon Nol era?
Had we not learned from the past?
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