Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen late last year called on then-president elect Donald Trump to cancel debt, thought to be around $US500 million. In 2010, he asked former president Barack Obama to convert the "dirty" debt to aid. At the time, Hun Sen said the money his country owed the US was incurred by the Lon Nol government that came to power in a 1970 coup backed by Washington, and that it was spent on arms used against the Cambodian people.
លោក ហ៊ុន សែន ក្តៅ ក្រហាយ នឹង លោក សម រង្ស៊ី ថា ឲ្យ រដ្ឋ ជួយ ដោះស្រាយ បំណុល ពលរដ្ឋ | Hun Sen incensed at Sam Rainsy for saying the state should help with people's debts