Cambodia's Hun Sen says Singapore supported genocide

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Cambodia's Hun Sen says Singapore supported genocide

PHNOM PENH/HANOI (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has accused Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of supporting genocide because of comments Lee made about Vietnam’s 1978 invasion of Cambodia which ended Pol Pot’s genocidal “killing fields” regime.

In the remarks, which have stirred Cold War animosity and drawn a strong response from Vietnam, Lee referred to the Vietnamese action to oust Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime and install a new government as an “invasion” and “occupation”, terms to which both Vietnam and Cambodia object.

Lee made the comments in a tribute to Thailand’s former prime minister, General Prem Tinsulanonda, who died last month.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-singapore-vietnam/cambodias-hun-sen-says-singapore-supported-genocide-idUSKCN1T80QE

More coverage, not easy to fully absorb early in the morning:

Singapore PM Stirs Flap in Cambodia by Bringing up Vietnam’s 1979 Invasion
2019-06-05

Cambodian officials are bristling this week after a recent remark by Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recalling Vietnam’s January 1979 invasion and decade-long occupation of Cambodia.

Lee used his official Facebook page on May 31 to send Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha condolences on the death of former Thai Prime Minister General Prem Tinsulanonda, who led Thailand during the period of Vietnam’s control of Cambodia and joined a coalition of nations who fought to end Hanoi’s occupation.

“His time as PM coincided with the Asean members (then five of us) coming together to oppose Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia and the Cambodian government that replaced the Khmer Rouge,” Lee wrote. The five original members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Continued at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/singapore-cambodia-06052019162641.html