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PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) – The "Angkor Sentinel 2011" multinational peacekeeping military exercise kicked off Monday at Cambodia's military commanding headquarters in Kampong Speu province, some 50 kilometers west of Phnom Penh, a senior military official said Monday.
The exercise, co-hosted by the United States, involves 300 members of the Cambodian armed forces, 200 ones of the U.S. Army Pacific, and some others from Mongolia, Indonesia and Nepal, said Lt. Gen. Chhum Socheat, the spokesman for Cambodian Defense Ministry.
"It's to strengthen and expand cooperation between Cambodia and the United States in peacekeeping operations and humanitarian activities," he said.
The 12-day training (May 16-27) focuses on command post exercise, engineering work such as building school and hospital, humanitarian affairs, rescues and medical treatment, he said.
"Angkor Sentinel 2011" is a part of the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) program, the United Nations Peacekeeping framework for strengthening peace and security.
This is the second consecutive year that Cambodia has hosted the event, he said.
6 comments:
Is the US eager to train Cambodian troops and Thai troops to fight against each other?
dO MA! ANH SHIT BEHIND
Now we are at war the siamese. Can we expect the US to lend a helping hand. If not, what's the point of this f...ing exercise ?
2:32 AM
To piss the Chinese off--unsurprisingly perhaps.
protect who against who ?
In Iraq-Iran war, the US told the Iraqi government (Saddam Hun Sen) that the US was on their side and provided the Iraqi government with technologies and intelligent information.
When Iraqi had an upper hand, the US secretly passed intelligent information about Iraqi troop movement to Iran.The war dragged on for many years and a lot of lives were lost on both sides.
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