Illegal American Bombing of Cambodia in 1970s

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Kyodo: Japan Offers Support for Cambodia’s Peacekeeping (05.03.2008)

Is Cambodia taking on more peacekeeping roles around the world? This news article depicts an interesting development:

Ishiba offers Japan’s support for Cambodia’s peacekeeping

AP

Posted: 2008-03-05 08:17:13

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TOKYO, March 5 (Kyodo) – Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba told his Cambodian counterpart Tea Banh during their meeting on Wednesday that Japan is ready to help the Cambodian military in its involvement in U.N. peacekeeping operations, Japanese officials said.

“ If there is anything Japan can do to support it, we are willing to do so,” Ishiba was quoted as telling Cambodia’s national defense minister, who doubles as deputy prime minister. But he did not elaborate on what kind of assistance he meant.

Tea Banh thanked Japan for sending Self-Defense Forces troops to the U.N. peacekeeping operation in Cambodia in 1992 and said his country has been sending mine removal experts to Sudan since two years ago as part of a U.N.-led peacekeeping operation, the officials said.

Noting that Cambodia was the first country to which Japan sent troops as part of a U.N. operation, Ishiba praised Cambodia for evolving into a country that now dispatches its own troops for such operations to another country, they said.

It is the first time Japan and Cambodia have held ministerial defense talks.

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03/05/08 08:16 EST

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Source: http://news.aol.com/story/_a/ishiba-offers-japans-support-for/n20080305081709990004, 6 March 2008

Support for ‘Olympic Dream for Darfur’ in Cambodia

“ China holds unrivaled influence with the genocidal regime in Sudan. As Beijing prepares to host the 2008 Olympics, join us in urging China to use its leverage to persuade the Sudanese government to allow a civilian protection force into Darfur.” claims the Olympic Dream for Darfur Team. (1) Similar events were held in “ Chad, Rwanda, Armenia, Germany and Bosnia as part of a campaign to persuade China to push Khartoum into ending the violence in Darfur.” (2) Why shouldn’t it be held in Cambodia, a country whose darkest moments were partly fated by China. (3) Let’s support Mia Farrow in stopping genocide in Cambodia!

 

Sources:

(1) http://www.dreamfordarfur.org/

(2) & (3) http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnBKK95165.html