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The top U.S. diplomat said the United States wants a ‘positive relationship’ with Cambodia. He emphasized the value of strengthening democracy, noting a ‘truly representative and inclusive’ national parliamentary election in 2023 would be important for building US-Cambodia ties.
Hun Sen’s government has attacked independent media in recent years to keep his party in power.
Two-thirds of Cambodians are under the age of 30 — born decades after the Khmer Rouge’s totalitarian terror and the American carpet-bombing campaign.
He rode a wave of royalist sentiment to win a United Nations-sponsored election in 1993, but was later ousted in a power struggle with his co-prime minister.
The Union of Journalist Federations of Cambodia (UJFC) intervened to resolve 33 cases last year where complaints were brought against Cambodian journalists, according to a report issued on January 11.